Bronx native Mickey Factz releases his first official album after 8 years of recording mixtapes. Backed by Soulspazm and W.A.R. Media and fully produced by Nottz, the album is a culmination of all of Mickey’s experiences in life and music, from gaining the attention of…
Interviews
Kool Keith talks Feature Magnetic album and other random topics | Interview
Kool Keith releases his 935th album, Feature Magnetic, and calls it “…one of the best masterpieces” due to the fact he’s personally produced 78% of the beats. Additional producers include Ocean Ave Records, Ol Man 80zz & Futurewave, and Giz for Crazy 100. With many…
Skyzoo writes & records The Easy Truth album with Apollo Brown in 6 days | Interview
Skyzoo just released his album The Easy Truth with Detroit producer Apollo Brown. He explains the ironic title of the album, being that so many current events are difficult to digest and mostly glanced over. The album concept came about after Skyzoo was listening to…
Breeze Brewin (Juggaknots) & The Higher Up | Interview
Kye Brewin and Mark Scott are the Hip Hop duo known as The Higher Up. Kye is the son of emcee Breeze Brewin of the influential Hip Hop group Juggaknots. In this interview with DJ Eclipse, Kye and Mark talk about how they met and…
maticulous talks The Chrome Tape instrumental album | Interview
Producer maticulous and former Fat Beats staff member has released his fourth album, The Chrome Tape. This is an instrumental album in cassette form. Side B includes instrumental versions of the The Manual EP by Audimatic (The Audible Doctor & maticulous). The Chrome Tape was…
Psycho Les (The Beatnuts) talks Dank God Vol. 1 album | Interview
Psycho Les released his latest project, Dank God Vol. 1, a series of songs and collaborations produced by himself. He spoke with DJ Eclipse about some of the features, including Inspectah Deck, Jeru The Damaja, Sean Price, Vinnie Paz, R.A. The Rugged Man, and more….
Blu talks Titans In The Flesh EP, produced by Nottz | Interview
Los Angeles emcee Blu stopped by Rap Is Outta Control to tell DJ Eclipse about his latest body of work, In The Flesh EP. DJ Eclipse remembers first hearing about Blu from the 2007 collaborative Blu & Exile album, From The Heavens, and how it…
Tonedeff describes his Polymer album as having no genre | Interview
DJ JS-1 took over Rap Is Outta Control and played a dope mix of new Hip Hop songs. He was joined by special guest Tonedeff who spoke on his latest album, Polymer. Tone approaches Hip Hop music as a singer/songwriter would approach songs, by being…
BIG K.O. talks producing for DMC and Proof | Interview
It has been 20 years since BIG K.O. launched Tru Criminal Records with projects from F.T., Street Smartz, AK Skillz, and more. After the label ran its course, K.O. linked up with the late Proof (D12) and recorded five songs together. He’s since produced for…
Nolan The Ninja & DJ Soko talk he[art]. album | Interview
Nolan The Ninja and DJ Soko appeared on DJ Eclipse’s show to talk about Nolan’s latest album, he[art]. With over a year in the making, Nolan describes he[art]. as being a reflection of his growth and progress from the past few years. He’s learned a…