CMJ Style Indie Hip Hop

It's been a while since I've check the CMJ Hip Hop Charts. Seems there are a few things there that are not on my radar. The artists in bold are the ones that got by me ... but not for long.

What about you hip hoppers,what's on your radar? k-fox.

1 BROTHER ALI

Us Rhymesayers

2 BK-ONE WITH BENZILLA

Radio Do Canibal Rhymesayers

3 DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN AND TAME ONE

Parallel Uni-Verse Gold Dust

4 ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM

Fluorescent Black Big Dada

5 SOULICO

Exotic On The Speakers JDub

6 CROWN CITY ROCKERS

The Day After Forever Gold Dust

7 BIG PUN

The Legacy: The Best Of Big Pun Sony Legacy

8 BC

Time Pieces Pt. 1: Time Capsule [EP] Peripheral

9 BREAKESTRA

Dusk 'til Dawn Strut

10 KID CUDI

Man On The Moon: The End Of Day Universal Motown-Motown

11 SWOLLEN MEMBERS

Armed To The Teeth Suburban Noize

12 JAY-Z

The Blueprint 3 Atlantic

13 RITA J

Artist Workshop All Natural

14 WAX TAILOR

In The Mood For Life Le Plan

15 MOS DEF

The Ecstatic Downtown

16 BLUE SCHOLARS

Oof [EP] Duck Down

17 ILL MONDO AND NEAL RAMES

Ill Mondo And Neal Rames Ill Mondo

18 KAM MOYE

Splitting Image Myx

19 US3

Stop. Think. Run Self-Released

20 SHAFIQ HUSAYN

Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka Plug Research

RZA, The Writer

Wu Tang's RZA continues to add to his creative palette. In addition to being a producer, actor, director among other things, he's also an author.

Although "The Tao of Wu" is not RZA'a first stab at writing, he should garner some attention with this collection of tales and wisdom. His first book was "The Wu Tang Manual" in 2005.

RZA was recently on National Public Radio's (NPR's) All Things Considered to talk about his book, his life and how he learned to score movie soundtracks.

Get out your reading glasses hip hoppers, there's going to be a test. kfox.

Video: The Roots "How I Got Over"

I'm a bit tardy on this one; The Roots' vid for "How I Got Over". I won't make any excuses though.

Just check the vid and hopefully I can get on to checking out HIGO in the next few days.

In the meantime hip hoppers, see if you can pull a little 'get over' for yourselves ... kfox.