I’ve been listening to ‘Everything’s Fine’, the collaborative LP by Brooklyn based Rap superhero Jean Grae and Detroit bred producer/emcee Quelle Chris, a whole lot lately. The dirty Jazz beats and abstract poetry of “Gold Purple Orange” make me think this is what Digable Planets would, or should, sound like if[…]
Never one to rest on her laurels (which include dropping a universally praised album ‘1992 Deluxe’ last year and throwing soup on a racist subway rider) Harlem bred rapper Destiny Frasqueri, otherwise known as Princess Nokia, is back and on some broken-hearted depression-wave Hot Topic Emo-Goth shit on her new[…]
I added “Delete Delete” by Beyoncé and Run the Jewels collaborator Jordan Asher “BOOTS” Cruz to my Spotify workplace playlist when it was released a couple of weeks ago and promptly forgot it existed. Then, last night, it dropped in the middle of a twelve hour graveyard shift and made[…]
Columbian/American soulful Pop chanteuse Kali Uchis enlists the assistance of Canadian Jazz band BADBADNOTGOOD, pioneering Funk bassist Bootsy Collins, and frequent collaborator Tyler, The Creator on her new single “After the Storm”. “After the Storm”, which comes off as a bit of an answer to the faux Bootsyisms of Childish[…]
Aesop Rock has been in the rap game for a solid twenty years and as such has no business releasing a song as 🔥 as his new single “Hot Dogs”. But he did. “Hot Dogs” is out now digitally and on limited edition vinyl via the Rhymesayers Entertainment label. Aesop[…]
San Francisco bred slam poet and rapper Watsky reps cunnilingus and fellatio and questions gender and identity based sexual conditioning in the very NSFW Nick Roney directed video for his track “Going Down”. Dude said: I got a wand tongue I’m doing sorcery I can dig it. “Going Down” is[…]
I’m not the biggest fan of Philly rapper Lil Uzi Vert or his music. Despite that fact I have watched some of his videos and thought “Huh, this kid is kind of a weirdo” and then wondered why his music wasn’t as weird as his visuals and persona seemed to[…]
A solid decade ago Bunny Michael, then going by the nom-de-rap Bunny Rabbit and recording druggy Art-Rap songs about a “monkey Christ”, landed on a list of my “Top 10 Music Industry Crushes” which I curated for this very website. Songs like “They”, an occult-themed Reggaeton jam where they declare[…]
Animated avatars of rappers Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels get spooky in a stop-motion haunted house where the horrors on display are all too real in the video for “Don’t Get Captured”. “Don’t Get Captured” is from the duo’s third LP ‘RTJ3’ which has been out, via[…]
Odd Future impresario Tyler, The Creator blows his own face off in the bugged out video for his grimy new single “Who Dat Boy”. But don’t worry A$AP Rocky is there to sew a new face on for him, and drop a few rhymes of his own. As has become[…]
Studded bondage masks and a throne made of human skulls are two things I never would have expected to see in a video from a former OutKast member. But that’s exactly what you’ll see, in addition to several voluptuous human posteriors, in the video for “Kill Jill”, the new Hatsune[…]
When veteran Hip-Hop trio De La Soul dropped their ninth full length album ‘and the Anonymous Nobody… ‘ last Summer I wasn’t trying to hear it. It was just too much of a departure from the sampladelic production aesthetic that put them on the map for me me and I[…]
