Think on this Hip Hop

Skillz presents: Hip-Hop Confessions ep. 4 -- Jeff & Kwame from Visually Inklined on Vimeo.

Any Thoughts - shouts out to VA

Skillz presents: Hip-Hop Confessions ep. 3 -- The Richmond, VA ChroniclesVisually Inklined on Vimeo.

Call me Crazy

Another hot joint.... Ya Boy Raheem Devaugh keeps a hot joint with a "Hip-Hopper"

See the Video &Get the song click 'read more'

What You Thinking 'Bout?

Skillz presents: Hip-Hop Confessions episode 2.1  Visually Inklined on Vimeo.

What do you think about Hip Hop?

This is a great series of videos ... What do you think about hip hip... Honestly? Leave us a comment, let us know!

Skillz presents: Hip-Hop Confessions episode 1 from Visually Inklined on Vimeo.

MADD SKILLZ ---2002 -2007 The RAP UP! Ghostwriter Extrodinaire

SkillZ is 1 of those often heard of, and very underrated "GHOSTWRITERS" you hear about all the time. He along with people like Pharoah Monch or Crooked I, that have been able to write for other people constantly and still be able to do their own thing. Ghostwriting is something that was a practice used highly back in the early rap days, but with the inception of the "keepin it real deal" people had started frowning on the art... and it is an art to be able to put yourself in another persons situation and write as if you were them. With that being said... your boy SkillZ has written for probably half of the industry and usually doesn't get the mainstream credit that he probably deserves. Now that doesn't mean his own albums are always fire... but what artists can say that other then people like Jay Z...Well here is THE RAP UP.... He started this in 2002 and it has been 1 of my favorite year ending rap songs since 2002. Check them out and see if he doesn't sum up the years for you..can you remember.......?

Skillz- The RAP UP-

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2006

This is the new RAP UP for 2007.... its kinda hot to me... you be the judge though.....

Ghostwriting... Is it OK with YOU?

This is an article from Gelf Magazine... Props to Nah right for the article... Its amazing how many ghostwriters there are... check this out...

Hip-Hop's Ghostwriters

Is it fair for big-shot rappers to pay up-and-comers for their lyrics, but then give them no songwriting credit?
Adam Conner-Simons
Music consumers readily accept that the singer of a catchy pop song may not have written it. But they may not know that this practice extends to other seemingly more authentic musical genres like hip-hop, which Chuck D of Public Enemy famously referred to as CNN for black people. "We hold rappers to a different standard than pop singers," says Chuck Creekmur, co-founder of AllHipHop.com. "With hip-hop we want to have that personal connection. We want them to tell us how they feel." More here

HOT Video- SKILLZ feat Freeway

Don't Act Like You Don't Know..... nothing else needs to be said... check it out! (props to Onsmash and Nah Right)