Anyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for lo-fi instrumental albums. At the same time, I love working with music, especially throughout the process of my new book, but as a hardcore listener, I find it’s distracting to refrain from analyzing the bars as I hear them. So instrumental…
Perhaps it’s my age or just the sheer nostalgia I feel for smooth, breezy West Coast vibes, but Honor Flow Productions always come through for me—especially after a tough week. Dipped in a deliciously 90s aesthetic, DJ Chuck, ELIMN8, and DJisLORD hit me up with a pair of joints: a…
Big O — as anyone following my musings may have come to know about the UK-based producer — stays busy. This time around, he’s connected with Jamaica Queens MC L.O.U. (who he last associated with for the poignant “The Preordained”) for a new posse cut “Avenue Of The Aspects” featuring…
There is a level of everyday humanity often absent from Hip Hop music; that’s understandable, especially if you’ve been following the twist, turns, and dysmorphic transformations the culture has taken. Once big industry moved in, things got glitzy. There are plenty of artists who happen to share a connection to…
With growth and maturity comes a certain level of hindsight, acceptance, and understanding that often takes place. It’s a natural process, an inevitable by-product of facing our mortality — though it’s not always the result of horrific trauma. For some, it’s a realization that can be made from a casual…
Your Old Droog is on an absolutely insane run right now, with back-to-back gems such as Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition, Jewelry, It Wasn’t Even Close — and Tha God Fahim literally never stops dropping. In fact, to put it lightly, his catalog is massive [Pete Tosiello at Bandcamp did a…
After a 2020 that included four new singles, Long Beach MC Jaywop releases his first project since 2019’s 1217, Suede. Perhaps taking a cue from Kanye West’s acclaimed seven-song project run (that included Pusha-T’s Daytona), the EP sits at seven tracks including “Screen Door” and “Big Bad”. Suede also boasts…
Bodega Bamz is never far from the bag — or the mic. The Spanish Harlem royal, fresh off last summer’s Yams Heard This, is back with a new project titled El Camino. View this post on Instagram A post shared by PAPI (@bodegabamz) He’s keeping his foot on the gas…
