Last Sunday was a full house with New York emcees Sean Strange from Queens, D.Chamberz from Coney Island, and Cortez from Brooklyn. All three artists have individual projects they’re promoting as well as Cortez providing us with insight into the business of the battle rap world. Check out this freestyle…

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 trips to Maryland and hang…

Rochester emcee Hassaan Mackey and Washington DC producer Kev Brown recorded their collaboration album That Grit after over a decade of friendship. With Kev Brown producing every track, Hassaan brought in some guest features including yU, Toine, Kaimbr, Eye-Q, Kenn Starr, Asheru, and Grap Luva. Check out this freestyle video…

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 release since the label folded….

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 on the positive feedback that…

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 be Rozewood’s 5th project release…

New York emcees Rozewood and SmooVth stopped by Rap Is Outta Control to talk about their upcoming projects. Rozewood’s album The Beautiful Type is produced entirely by Illastrate, and SmooVth’s album Portrait Of A Pimp is produced by Giallo Point. Watch this video of Rozewood and SmooVth freestyle at the…

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 the importance of working in…

Long-time California emcee Ras Kass from the early 90s just released a new album with Detroit producer Apollo Brown called Blasphemy. Check out this freestyle from Ras Kass at Rap Is Outta Control and purchase Blasphemy.

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 for the collaborations. He pinpoints…