hip hop
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A new video from L.A. rapper and Dilated Peoples member Evidence, which is promoting the release of his forthcoming album Cats & Dogs. It’ll be out via Rhymesayers on Sept. 27th. Looks like Slug, Raekwon, and Aesop Rock made the feature list for the album, too. DJ Primo
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Sequence Consequence by Nouveaunoise It’s colorful, synthetic beats are your treasure, then your hunt is over. The new Nouveaunoise EP is loaded with different hues, and packs them into an upbeat set of five tracks on this new EP, Sequence Consequence. Buy it for whatever price you’d like
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A new video from Alabama’s Yelawolf, which is featured in Ubisoft’s Driver San Francisco. For now, this track seems kinda relegated to video game fame, but Yela still goes hard. I’m loving the beat on this one, because the horns and dreary synth chords are absolutely gorgeous.
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It’s a Lil Wayne album. What did you expect? WATCH THE REVIEW
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Skipping Rocks by Oddisee DC hip hop producer Oddisee has a new album of instrumentals out that tributes his favorite spot in the capital city: Rock Creek Park. With both samples and live instrumentation, Oddisee tries–and succeeds, really–at recreating what the place means to him through song. Stream
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Connecticut rapper Apathy brings a modern feel to the classic sounds of East Coast hip hop on his latest album, Honkey Kong. Though this LP doesn’t experiment or step over any major boundaries, it does come with a lot of consistency, quotable lyricism, and solid beats. Despite a few
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A new video from Dublin-based rapper Lecs Luther. He’s got a look that I’m sure a lotta people are going to compare to Odd Future–specifically Tyler, The Creator. But beyond clothes, I’m not really seeing what they have in common. His relaxed, repetitive flow and odd
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After years of being known as a member of Little Brother and the Foreign Exchange, Southern rapper Phonte is dropping his first solo album, which will be titled Charity Starts at Home. Dig a track to drop from it above, which features production from Little Brother cohort 9th Wonder and
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Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s latest album functions in extremes. They’re not really the angry, voluminous extremes the latest Death Grips album functions on. They’re more like extremes of excess. Of course, what Danny is being excessive with is drugs, sex, misogyny, and basically anything else that one
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I’ve been living in Connecticut all my life, and I’ve always wondered about this state’s lack of pride–especially among people my age. I’ll admit that I’m not always in love with where I’m living. It would be nice to be somewhere less expensive,
