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 Pharrell and signing with Jive…

Queens Hip Hop legend Mikey D’Struction and Bronx native Mickey Factz have joined DJ Eclipse on Rap Is Outta Control to discuss their latest respective bodies of work. Mikey D’Struction has released Day Of D’Struction and Mickey Factz has released The Achievement: circa ’82. Check out this freestyle that closed…

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 emcees featured on this project,…

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 the instrumentals that Apollo Brown…

Brooklyn meets Pennsylvania in this episode of Rap Is Outta Control. Skyzoo just released his album The Easy Truth with Detroit producer Apollo Brown and King Magnetic & GQ are finishing up some projects for 2017. Check out this freestyle video as all three emceees get down, and purchase The…

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 started making music together. Eclipse…

Breeze Brewin of the legendary New York Hip Hop crew Juggaknots appeared on this episode of Rap Is Outta Control with DJ Eclipse. Alongside him was the group The Higher Up, co-founded by Breeze’s son Kye Brewin and Mark Scott. All three emcees showcased their rhyming skills at the end…

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 entirely produced, mixed, and composed…

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. The series was separated into…

DJ Eclipse hosted a packed house of Queens artists in this recent RIOC episode. Original Onyx producer Chyskillz was in attendance, along with The Beatnuts member Psycho Les and 3rd Bass frontman MC Serch. Now living in Florida, Serch was in town for the Global Spin DJ Expo that he…