Brooklyn emcee Cortez was a recent guest on @RapIsOuttaCntrl alongside D.Chamberz, Mighty Fuzz Young, and Sean Strange. In this video, D-Stroy interviews Cortez about his success as a battle rapper, the high booking prices that he’s offered, and his appearance in Eminem’s TV show Road…
Interviews
Sean Strange & Mighty Fuzz Young discuss Return From Rejection album
After 15 years of friendship, producer Mighty Fuzz Young and emcee Sean Strange finally collaborated on the album that they’ve wanted to create for the past six years. Fuzz speaks on their good chemistry working together and how they made time to work together. The…
Kev Brown & Hassaan Mackey discuss creating That Grit album together
Maryland producer Kev Brown and upstate New York emcee Hassaan Mackey discuss their latest album That Grit and how they first met at a hip hop festival in Rochester, NY. Most of the album was recorded in the studio together as Hassaan would take bus…
Grand Daddy I.U. explains his passion for music and shares a disastrous magic trick story
Long Island emcee Grand Daddy I.U. showed up to Rap Is Outta Control with Diamond D to promote The Diam Piece album. I.U. talks about his passion to make music regardless of any accolades and mentions some unreleased songs that Cold Chillin’ Records failed to…
Diamond D shares feedback from The Diam Piece album
DJ Eclipse compliments Diamond D on his latest project, The Diam Piece. Eclipse was impressed at the various layers that went into producing this album, from east coast and west coast artists, male and female artists, guest DJs, and a variety of sounds. Diamond comments…
Rozewood on making The Beautiful Type album with producer Illastrate
Rozewood and Illastrate teamed up as the traditional emcee/producer duo to release the album The Beautiful Type. Actually, the album came to fruition after hanging out and making songs in the studio simply for fun. All the beats were made by Illastrate and this will…
Apollo Brown & Ras Kass discuss working together on Blasphemy
Apollo Brown and Ras Kass visited NYC to promote their collaboration album Blasphemy and host an album release party for the east coast. In this Rap Is Outta Control interview, Apollo expresses how much he loves producing a full album from front to back and…
DJ JS-1 “It Is What It Isn’t” interview on The Halftime Show with DJ Eclipse
Rock Steady Crew member DJ JS-1 released his latest producer album, It Is What It Isn’t, featuring over 40 emcees. In this 27-minute interview with DJ Eclipse, JS-1 explains his vision in pairing emcees together that never worked together before and coming up with concepts…
Da Beatminerz remember mastering issues with Enta Da Stage by Black Moon
Legendary production team Da Beatminerz showed up to Rap Is Outta Control since they’re featured in Brian Coleman’s book, Check The Technique Vol. 2. Walt and Evil Dee were asked about making the classic Black Moon album, Enta Da Stage. Walt explains that they were…
Brian Coleman discusses Check The Technique Vol. 2 with Da Beatminerz, Mr. Len, & others
For over a decade, Brian Coleman has written extensively about the hip hop culture and music for publications such as URB, The Source, Scratch, Wax Poetics, CMJ, Complex, Boston Herald, and XXL. He has joined the staff at Rap Is Outta Control to talk about…