Brand new music video for X-Clan’s Prison, a great track of last year’s spectacular “Return From Mecca.” Prison features American Jazz artist Christian Scott, and is a critique of our country’s prison-industrial complex. X-Clan is reportedly preparing a new album titled “Mainstream Outlaw” due for release later in 2008.

Hip Hop legend Brother J has checked in from the studio with an update regarding the X-Clan’s plans for 2008. X-Clan have are currently preparing another monumental hip hop release of knowledge and wisdom for late 2008 release through Suburban Noize Records.

“We have been working on a new album, along with a new DVD release that starts to explain some of the history of X-Clan,” says group founding father Brother J, offering a glimpse into what the hip hop legends have cooking for 2008. (more…)

PEACE. Every year, Hip-Hop Linguistics creates two lists. One list contains the top hip-hop albums from major mainstream, underground and independent record labels. The other list contains the top hip-hop albums from minor independent labels and unsigned hip-hop artists. The first list contains artists you’ve likely heard of, while the second list contains artists you’ve probably not heard of.

This is that first list - the overall top picks for 2007. The list below represents the best albums hip-hop had to offer in the year 2007 from what we consider major record labels - whether mainstream, underground or independent. We highly recommend checking them all out! (more…)

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  Review Date: March 8, 2007
  Website: X-Clan Website
  Label: Suburban Noize

X-Clan ”Return From Mecca” Album Review
Every once and awhile, an album comes along that makes me remember exactly why I started my own hip-hop website. X-Clan’s “Return From Mecca” is that album. I used to get so angry when brilliant albums got underrated by reviewers, dissed among fans and ignored by radio stations, so I started writing my own reviews to give hip-hoppers the real. And the real is … you should ignore the not-so-favorable Internet reviews on this album, because “Return From Mecca” is a classic, and the best hip-hop album of the year thus far. (more…)