Leaves are falling, bellies are bulging and good television is returning-the summer is a distant memory.  So what better time to review what happened in hip-hop during summer 2010.

What has become of hip-hop? Rap music as we know it is on the decline. Just take a look at the Billboard charts: The highest charting hip-hop single, “Nothin’ on You” by B.oB featuring Bruno Mars, comes in at No. 17. Even on Billboard’s hip-hop charts, it isn’t until the fifth slot that we see…

SPIN magazine just voted Eminem’s “The Marshal Mathers LP” the 65th best album of the past 25 years. For me, mention of that record always evokes two things: my senior year of high school and an end of year party at my friend Patrick’s house. Seventy-five kids were hanging out in his backyard…