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It’s easy to dismiss rappers like OG Maco and Bobby Shmurda who, like so many new faces in 2014, owe their fame in part to the meme lottery. The difference with OG Maco is that he’s a genuine talent with more than zero good songs. He can be compelling without screaming as..
Everyone now please turn to the chapter on drum programming.
Putting The Weeknd on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack sounds like somebody’s C+ Twitter joke, but here we are. What’s crazy is that it’s one of the rare Weeknd singles that’s actually pretty great, following “Often” and “Kiss Land”. Crazier still: barring any subliminal messages, it’s squeaky clean. Like..
The follow up to Coultrain’s kaleidoscopic soul opera from last year is an EP that continues the story. He opts for (relatively) more grounded production this time, but that just makes it easier to get lost in the dense lyrics and dreamy vocals. Side Effex Of Make-Believe; divided for love's..
When they’re not playing with melody, trap rap’s forerunners are chanting over uncomfortably sparse beats.
Johnny Cinco’s latest release opts for minimal 808 thumpers on which he slurs tales from the trap. MoneyMakinNique of Atlanta plays Big Boi to his Andre.
Jeremiah Jae is easily my favorite scion of MF Doom, except for maybe post-Gangrene Alchemist. ROAD KILL Vol. 5 [HNR43] by Jeremiah Jae
A new iteration of GTA V for PS4 and Xbox One means an updated soundtrack with new joints by Flying Lotus featuring DOOM and Freddie Gibbs with Mike Dean. Rockstar Games = rap’s Medicis.
Amid years of fruitless attempts to regain New York hip-hop’s former glory, luddites’ endeavors to reinstate “real” hip-hop, and embarrassing overtures by yesterday’s greats — most recently, the Wu-Tang Clan’s painful and perverse new album — amid all of that, Raekwon alone seems to have noticed that the provenance of every golden..
L.A. by way of Chicago producer Salva went and got all your favorite rappers for his mixtape. Download it at his website and listen to choice cuts featuring Freddie Gibbs, Kurupt, E-40, and Schoolboy Q below.
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