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Reef The Lost Cauze: Rebel Without A Pauze

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - Amanda Bassa | Comments: 8
With his latest album, A Vicious Cycle [click to read], recently released and a nationwide tour with Jedi Mind Tricks checked off of his list of things to do, it�s fair to say that Philadelphia native Reef The Lost Cauze is quite the busy man these days.

HipHopDX was fortunate enough to grab a minute of his time during the tour to discuss everything from his stint in film school to where to pick up the best cheese steak in the city of brotherly love.

HipHopDX: You were enrolled in film school for a while, weren’t you?
Reef The Lost Cauze:
Yeah, during like 1999-2000, my freshman year, I was at the...

Scarface: The Grand Finale

Sunday, November 30, 2008 - Paul W Arnold | Comments: 36
Scarface is dead. And it didn’t take a disgruntled business partner seeking revenge to take this Scarface out. Not coked out of his mind, but somewhat like the fictional Tony Montana, the very real Brad Jordan is staring down his last stand, preparing to go out with one final act of defiant gangsterism before his days atop the game are over.

Emeritus is Scarface’s grand finale. Deriving his ninth solo album’s title from a word defined as, “one retired from professional life but permitted to retain as an honorary title the rank of the last office held,” ‘Face is officially announcing to the world that he’s done with...

Underground Report: B-Real

Friday, November 28, 2008 - Mina Jasarevic | Comments: 14
HipHopDX normally features two artists every month for your eyes’ flash and pleasure as our Underground Report. Our November’s pick however, has climbed ladders too high to be sharing skies. B-Real is perhaps best known for his piercing voice with which he gained the admiration of fans on both coasts, and even internationally. He is a member of the west coast group Cypress Hill which experienced limitless success in the early and mid-'90s, specifically, with their first three albums (Cypress Hill, Black Sunday and Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom) together towering 10x platinum.

After releasing a series of Gunslinger mixtapes in the past few years, B-Real finally readies to drop...

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