Music Reviews — hip hop

J. Scienide celebrates another trip around the sun with his latest effort, "Chaos Cycle." Armed with a stack of records and freshly written rhymes, this body of work is the outcome of a creative burst from the burgeoning emcee/producer over the course of Memorial Day Weekend. The EP is entirely self-produced, but boasts support from Damu the Fudgemunk who not only mixed and mastered the project, but also lends his impressive cuts throughout. Stream Chaos Cycle STREAM CHAOS CYCLE -Nnamdi Arinze

Fly Anakin Frank   Hailing from the city of D’ Angelo, Madskillz and Arthur Ashe, Richmond, VA, Fly Anakin is a rather indelible and persistant MC. He is also a co-founder of Hip-Hop collective Mutant Academy and Scheme Team. Frank is his first solo album for the label Lex Records.Fly Anakin is definitely a superb MC but the thing that makes him stand out even further is that there is a fire that comes out in the midst of his delivery and somehow it tends to come out even more during his live shows. Not only that but he is more...