It’s hard to dislike Big K.R.I.T. The blog-favorite turned Def Jam signee is endlessly humble (watch the video for “Dreamin'” below where he plays a school janitor) while still capable of mustering the gusto for heat like “Sookie Now” with David Banner. He wears his influences (Organized Noize, UGK) on..
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“Box Chevy Pt 3” was the high point of Yelawolf’s breakout mixtape, but the song’s standout verse belonged to an unknown rapper whose scalding double time verse prompted many a Google search of the name “Rittz.” All they found was a MySpace of a guy who looked like Carrot Top’s..
Heart Failure wouldn’t work if Torae didn’t have a sense of humor. His Valentines Day mixtape is all about rapper-specific relationship issues: ‘Why are you coming home at 3:30 in the morning?’ ‘You have to go on tour again?’ and of course ‘Who are those groupie bitches?’ Remember, this was..
Train! Fight! Die?! DJA and Dirty South Joe have distilled the essence of motivation and physical and mental exertion into musical form. The product of their labor is Heaven 2 Hell, their second 80s action soundtrack mix. As with any action sequel, the stakes are higher and the danger level..
The crowd at The Local 269, a shabby New York City bar on 269 Houston Street, could not have been less interested. The bartender scribbled on his notebook, two older men talked to a woman half their age, and a gaggle of NYU students crowded a booth by the stage...
Alabama hip-hop hit the ground running this year. The main success story is Yelawolf, who landed an Interscope deal and has everyone awaiting his next move. But there’s another Alabama rapper with a major label deal and he’s even more of a black sheep than Yela: Jackie Chain, a towering..
More Alabama heat. Track 6, “Pole Money,” samples “Maniac” from Flashdance (“She’s a maniac, maaaaaniac…”). Stop reading and download. Jackie Chain, Block Beattaz and other Bama regulars make appearances. Download: Untamed – Street Solid via IMNOTATOY Sphere: Related Content
Sampling a popular artist is a well-worn shortcut to exposure. Frank Sinatra, Queen, every James Bond theme, and many others have gotten the hip-hop treatment from plucky producers vying for attention. Mainstream audiences eat this stuff up. Sure enough, Evidence’s I Don’t Need Love EP, which uses Beatles samples, earned..
Sene’s career has an odd trajectory. The Brooklyn rapper made a name for himself in 2009 with A Day Late & a Dollar Short, an album produced by Blu, the elusive phantasm of the West Coast. But today, Sene seems firmly planted in the East Coast as an honorary member..
The concept for The Interlude sounds like kind of a cool idea, but in execution, it’s brilliant. On his new mixtape, The Kid Daytona rapped over hip-hop interludes reworked by producers like 6th Sense, 9th Wonder Bink! — interludes meaning those funky little beats that bookend your favorite tracks, not..
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