New York emcees John Jigg$ and Sean Strange talk with DJ Eclipse about maintaining a career as independent Hip Hop artists. Sean goes into detail about the many years he’s had to pay dues in order to see the benefits of a fan base, as…

DJ Eclipse hosted a packed house this past Sunday with a bunch of talented New York emcees. John Jigg$ from Long Island was in the place promoting his upcoming album Sorry, Not Sorry scheduled to release in March. Queens emcee and label owner Sean Strange…

Hempstead, NY emcee SmooVth has returned to RIOC once again with a bunch of new music for his fans. In September 2016, he released the solo album SS96J: Smoothest Since 96 J with features from Rozewood, Sage Infinite, Planet Asia, Big Twins, Constantine, and more….

DJ Eclipse completed another successful show for the books recently. He was joined by Atlanta emcees Tha God Fahim and Heem Stogied, as well as Rap Is Outta Control alumnus SmooVth from Long Island, NY. SmooVth is a member of the group The Winners and…

Q-Unique and Audible Doctor showed up to RIOC to talk about the BlaQ Coffee album by Q-Unique & The Brown Bag AllStars. With no guest features, the project was produced by J57, Deejay Element, and Audible Doctor. Originally planned as a single record and later…

Sucio Smash brings the talented DJ/producer MentPlus to RIOC after releasing records together on Sucio’s label, High Water Music. MentPlus released an instrumental project, A Spoonful EP, following his full-length project earlier in 2016 called Stormy Nights LP. In this interview with DJ Eclipse, MentPlus…

Long-time NYC emcee Q-Unique of The Arsonists fame has released his latest solo album with Brown Bag AllStars called BlaQ Coffee. BBAS member Audible Doctor has joined Q to chat with DJ Eclipse about the project and how unique the process has been for Q…

Producer Ray West and owner of Red Apples 45 has finally collaborated with the Bronx veteran emcee D Flow. The two speak with DJ Eclipse on how they met through A.G. of D.I.T.C. and recorded the project Three Sides To Every Coin EP. D Flow…

To end another successful year of Rap Is Outta Control, it was only right that our final guests of 2016 were the pioneers of Hip Hop fashion, the mighty Shirt Kings. DJ Eclipse speaks with Nike and Tybo about the history of the infamous brand…

Producer, DJ, and emcee Menace of the Hip Hop group Tha Addicts has released his solo album entitled New Tribe. Originally from Florida, Menace now lives in Texas and works as a DJ for a commercial radio station BOOM 94.5 FM in Dallas that plays…