Mix hip-hop with some neo-soul flavoring and chill it down a bit and you’ll get something really cool and exclusive.
Viva Soul is a Korean hybrid hip-hop trio that offers a unique brand of music which takes inspiration from those aformentioned genres. It’s something really fresh and exciting.

Viva Soul (L to R) D’Low, Jood, Samuel

 
Viva Soul [...]

MC Sniper’s album How Bad Do U Want It was released in March of 2007 and it has yet to get old. I just can’t put the thing down. While the entire album remains consistantly awesome, one song has stuck out to me as of late: Track #5, “Better than Yesterday”.
“Better than Yesterday” features members [...]

Korean reggae artist Skull has made a Billboard Top 10 chart in the US.
His debut US single “Boom Di Boom Di” most recently hit #10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hiphop Singles Sales chart. This comes as a pleasant surpise even to his management, YG Entertainment.

This is a great accomplishment for a Korean artist in America [...]

As a record label, YG Family has done some great things for Korean hip-hop. Granted, many of their artists’ music can be best described as “hip-pop”, YG can be credited with helping bring rap to the masses.
Masta Wu is part of what I like to call the “good half of YG Entertainment”. With roots as [...]

Much of my recent aural energy has been spent indulging in hip-hop, specifically Korean hip-hop. As far as my last.fm account goes, it has had a healthy boost of Korean hip-hop tracks logged for the past few weeks [...]

Shing02 is probably best known for his collaboration with producer Nujabes on the Samurai Champloo soundtrack. There is much more to the Japanese emcee than that project of course. Residing in the Bay Area, Oakland, Calif., Shing02 has [...]

I’m always a little wary when a musican that I like releases a greatest hits-type album. My initial reaction has me contemplating “the end”. Though that’s not always true (especially with many popular Japanese artists), I can’t help but think that [...]

Epik High’s Remapping the Human Soul

The Korean hip-hop trio Epik High is back and more ‘intense’ than ever. On January 23rd, 2007 they released their 4th album, Remapping the Human Soul.
Tablo, Mithra Jin, and DJ Tukutz’s latest effort results in 27-tracks on 2 CDs. Though Remapping the Human Soul’s title is an obvious throwback [...]