Saigon: You Play To Win The Game

I was just days away from my college graduation in May of 2004 when I interviewed Saigon for the first time.  He talked in-depth about the origins of his name, his time in prison, and his hopes to better his life and the lives of others through his budding music career.  He also spoke excitedly about his debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, which he expected to be released sometime in the…

Rhymefest x RH: The “Give It To Me” Contest

Photo By: Virgil Solis That's right, RubyHornet has teamed up with Rhymefest and dNBE Entertainment to offer independent artists a chance to appear on Fest's forthcoming album, El Che. The track up for grabs is entitled "Give It To Me" and is produced by Scram Jones.  All you need to do is download the instrumental below, record your best sixteen, and submit your best verse to…

Vic Mensa: “Space Camp”

My apologies to Vic Mensa for putting an "h" in his name previously.  The youngest member of the Brainiac crew takes us to "Space Camp", which I always wanted to attend as a child.  My parents pulled the Cubs on me with the repeating of, "maybe next summer."  Multiple attempts to win such a trip on Double Dare also were thwarted...This joint is produced by the Brainiac in house team of Nez & Rio,…

The RH Re-Up 8.1.09

You know what time it is; it’s the Friday Saturday Re-Up...We’ll give you a complete rundown of everything that’s been up on RubyHornet in the past week from exclusive videos, first looks, and feature interviews, we’ve got you covered. This week has been exciting from an intense one-on-one with Rhymefest to full coverage of Curren$y’s trip to Chicago. Read more

Tiffany From The Bad Girls Club: Bad Meaning Good

The first hot day of the late spring, and we were in Naperville, on the set of GLC's new video, "Clockin' Lotsa Dollars."  For his new flick, he chose a new chick to be his leading lady and so while we chopped it up with GL and Ike Films, his starlett, Tiffany from season 3 of The Bad Girls Club, stayed upstairs preparing for her closeup.  It was an interesting day to say the least for GL's…

Saigon: “A Change Gon’ Come” (prod. by The Kick Drums)

 Ok, I'm back. For real this time. Saigon drops a gem inspired by Rik Cordero's flick, Inside A Change.  Rik talked about the film during our interview saying,"It's based on the life of a friend of mine, Chris Alexander, who passed away in 2004. I used to produce beats back then and he was a rapper. We formed a deep artistic bond and I felt like I got a chance to glimpse into his soul.…

DJ Semtex: Do The Work

DJ Semtex hugely increased Wale's Twitter following after the UK Disc Jockey called him out for blowing off an interview.  Wale gave up on Twitter, the two made amends, Wale returned to Twitter and has since become one of the most update friendly emcees.  Meanwhile DJ Semtex has continued to do what he does best, carefully and skillfully get inside the heads of today's top Hip Hop artists.  In…

Jadakiss: Better Business

 "Hello!?!...Hello?!?"...Great, I thought, Jadakiss is giving me the brush off by pretending not to hear me, as the Yonkers born emcee continued his string of hello's before hanging up about seven minutes into our interview.  Ehh-heh, I muttered to myself, and returned to my desk thinking of the various ways I could turn an unfinished interview into a full article.  I had just got back to…