Interviews

That’s Hip Hop is the latest album from Joell Ortiz in collaboration with super-producer Domingo. Both Brooklyn artists have worked on one-off songs together for several years, with conflicting schedules preventing them from creating a full-length album together until recently. That’s Hip Hop is the…

Traditional Hip Hop crew Rockboy G’z represented at RIOC with some of their recently released music and spoke about upcoming projects. Front man Fly Ty explained how the Rockboy G’z formed after he spent years on the street team for his cousin D/R Period and…

Black Sheep Dres stopped by Rap Is Outta Control to announce his upcoming evitaN album with Jarobi from A Tribe Called Quest. In 2012, the two released Speed Of Life and, after receiving much positive feedback, are back at it again to record the follow…

New York City emcee Pearl Gates released his latest project Diamond Mind EP and stopped by RIOC to speak on the past few years of his career and his organic growth as an artist. The EP includes production from Sirplus, KIC Beats, Khrysis, Twizzmatic, M….

Yonkers legend Styles P of The LOX brings his mentee Fortes to RIOC to play new music and talk about Fortes’ upcoming album Suburban Legend. Styles cosigns Fortes’ talent and work ethic, commenting on youthful energy being inspiring and how much Styles learns from him…

Coney Island artist Torae has released his official sophomore solo album, Entitled. As a former RIOC co-host with DJ Eclipse who now has his own show on Sirius Xm, The Tor Guide, Tor has joined us once again to talk about his album. With a…

Baltimore’s hardcore rap group Dirt Platoon re-releases their highly-acclaimed debut album, Deeper Than Dirt. To celebrate the project’s 5-year anniversary, the album is remastered and released under a similar title, Deeper Than Dirt (Reloaded), executive produced by Tom Delay Beats. In this video interview with…

New D.I.T.C. artist but long-time emcee Fisher is getting ready to release his album GODmc. In this interview with DJ Eclipse, Fisher details his history as a young artist from the Bronx that moved to Atlanta and almost signed a record deal with Jermaine Dupri….

Long Island emcee SmooVth and Brooklyn emcee Marvelous Mag showed up at RIOC recently. In this interview with DJ Eclipse, the two discussed meeting each other and later forming a group with members Hus Kingpin and Rozewood as The Winners. SmooVth announces his upcoming projects;…

Willie Esco, creative director of Coogie, has teamed up with Thirstin Howl The 3rd, Rack Lo, All Lyrics, and the rest of the Lo Life founders to launch the Lo Life clothing line. Named after the crew that created a global fashion movement that was…