YouTube is full of nutty videos made by kooky motherfuckers detailing unbelievable conspiracies, many of them involving a shadowy and ill-defined group called the “Illuminati”. Lemmino of YouTube channel Top 10 Memes has produced one of the most even-handed and hilarious videos about the history of the actual Bavarian Illuminati[…]
I was into today’s Monday Magick entry, an Austin, Texas-based rapper, poet, and musician going by the absurd monicker MC 900 (ft. Jesus), about the same time I was getting into XCLAN. Around that time I probably watched MTV’s “alternative” program ‘120 Minutes’ just as much as ‘YO! MTV Raps’,[…]
I’ve got tickets to see these dudes in Beantown this Friday. Their second LP as a duo, ‘Run the Jewels 2’, is an easy contender for album of the year. “Blockbuster Night” is full of alliterative wordplay and darkly violent imagery. Shit is hard. Run the Jewels is El-P and[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry comes from one of the biggest influences upon my own journey into the so-called “occult”, Brooklyn, New York Hip-Hop collective XCLAN. The group was founded in the late ’80s by Lumumba “Professor X, The Overseer” Carson (son of notable political activist Sonny Carson and a[…]
The 2012 film ‘Iron Sky’, a movie about Nazis on the moon returning to conquer Earth, had a great premise, but was bogged down by some really silly bullshit. I actually fell asleep while watching it. Apparently a sequel, ‘Iron Sky The Coming Race’ is in the works, which appears[…]
Sorry folks, but Monday Magick will be taking this week off. We’ll be back with another entry of our magickal musical feature next week.
The Diaz sisters, better known as Techno-Vodou priestesses Ibeyi, are about that Blues business on their new single “Mama Says”. The vocal is pure, simple, sufferation, while the handclaps and drums give us a modern take on the Afro-Latin tribal heartbeat, and the piano exhibits all the jazziness of a[…]
Art-Rap hero Open Mike Eagle is in top form on “Dark Comedy Late Show”, the Exile-produced remix of ‘Dark Comedy’ album opener “Dark Comedy Morning Show”. Mike drops all new lyrics that are altogether earnest, sarcastic, witty, dead serious, overt, and obscure, which straddle the fence between making you laugh[…]
It doesn’t really get more blatantly occult than this week’s Monday Magick entry, “Devil’s Son”, courtesy of Harlem native and Diggin’ In The Crates crew ambassador Lamont “Big L” Coleman. The tune was originally intended to be featured on the emcee’s 1995 debut ‘Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous’ and[…]
Leader of LA’s beatmaking avant-garde Flying Lotus both loses and uses his head in the gruesome David Firth-directed video clip for “Ready Err Not”. The video, which features a ton of blood and disembodied limbs, reminds me of a mixture of painter Robert Williams’ outrageous imagery and tool member Adam[…]
The other day I stumbled upon “Roll My Weed” from singin’-ass dude Bridge and ganksta-ganksta-ganksta-ass dude ScHoolboy Q. I was feeling the very TDE-sounding beat and catchy-ass hook, and certainly didn’t mind looking at all the different flavors of sexy-ass ladies on display. But I couldn’t help noting out-loud that[…]
