Here’s a run-down of narrative-driven rap albums. A case could have been made to include Kendrick’s last LP but shorty said nah, pulled the trigger and stepped. R.I.P. GURU. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Art of Storytelling
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Dallas Penn and Combat Jack Are: The Black Odd Couple
During an “ideas storm” at the Fuckboi Media Group, International HQ today, one of my crack team of creatives decided to rip-off an idea based on a Mike Heron Tweet and put together an outline for a new VH-1 sit-com starring Internets Celebrities Dallas Penn and Combat Jack… Read the Season One Episode Recap Here
Unsigned Skype: Cole James Cash
Although I ignore pretty much everything that turns up randomly in my email, the notes for this album caught my eye: “Shoutout to New York for giving me my entire style of production that I essentially ripped off from producers much better than myself. Shoutout to my worthless deadbeat of a father for abandoning my…
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Love, Hip-Hop and Ratchets
This week, I took a journey to the Ratchet Side. Never before have so many unattractive broads who somehow believe that they are “divas” been collected in one place. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Love, Hip-Hop and Ratchets
Byron Crawford – Infinite Crab Meats Book Review
Remember when that Stuff White People Like blog got turned into a very popular book? Me neither, but apparently it did. My long-time internets associate Byron Crawford released his first tome, Mindset of a Champion, last year, and it turned out to be a great read. The sequel manages to improve on his print debut…
Download: Unkut Presents The 40 Oz. 2012
There goes another in year in rap. As Weirdo Rap and EDM Rap takes hold of the youf, it’s getting a little more difficult to pick-out 40 great examples of non-progressive rap that Mitt Romney would approve of. Neo-Con Hip-Hop to some. East-Coast Elitist music to others. We are the Conservative Rap Coalition, and we…
Album Review: Meyhem Lauren – Mandatory Brunch Meetings
While Self Induced Illness and Clarified Butter had some great songs on them, it wasn’t until this years Respect The Fly Shit that Meyhem Lauren really hit his stride as far as establishing a comprehensive sound, courtesy of Harry Fraud and Tommy Mas. With a wider range of tempos, Meyhem was able to break out…
Roc Marciano – Reloaded Album Review
Two years after Marcberg, and Roc Marciano has been commissioned for more guest spots than I can keep track of, remarkably without playing himself out. Reloaded offers everything that Roc’s debut brought to the table – stream-of-consciousness rhyme flow, an abundance of food references, minimal guests and a unique beat science – but with a…
Prince Paul and DJ Pforreal – Negroes On Ice Album Review
Comedy albums are a strange animal. The great ones are hilarious for two or three spins, but rarely stand-up to repeated listens. Hip-hop comedy records have the advantage of beats to accompany the gags, which significantly added to the lifespan of Prince Paul‘s Psychoanalysis record, but did little to help Bobby Jimmy and the Critters.
No Country For Old (Rap) Men – Cruel Summer Album Review
I took this bullet so that the rest of you might be spared the horrors of war… No Country For Old (Rap) Men – Cruel Summer Album Review
40 Years of Hip-Hop Tape Culture
^ Pic stolen from here. Mix tapes can be a whole lot more than a bunch of songs you record for a chick you’re trying to impress by revealing your “sensitive side”. In the world of hip-hop, they have proven to be one of the most important tools in spreading the sound of a native…
Trem – For The Term Of His Natural Life Album Review
You know how sometimes you wait for something for such a long time that you begin to doubt that it will ever happen? This record was almost like that, except for the fact it actually came out last Friday! Rather than unleash 14 tracks of Bitter Old Man Rap, which would be somewhat understandable coming…