It’s officially training day on the gangsta’s turf for the young Pilot and who better than to show him the ropes than O.G. Boss “Alonzo” Snoop Dogg. Director Pook Brown gets his Antoine Fuqua on as Snoop cuts out the shenanigans and stays true blue over a fierce Jake One soundbed. Read the rest of this entry »

Quick question. What’s funnier: the fact these young women appear blind to the fact this song is about new p*ssy or the impeccable timing by all parties involved to release this video some 72 hours before Valentine’s Day? That’s irony at its finest and most derogatory moment, ladies and gents. Read the rest of this entry »

The makings to a perfect banger all flow congruently through the veins of A-Mafia’s breakout exposition. It would have been too easy—and perfectly adequate—by today’s standards to simply enlist the services of a red-hot producer-of-the-moment such as Lex Luger and jar away until the three minutes and change were up. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever listen to a piece of music or watch a clip and don’t understand the righteous zeal others associate with it? My relationship with Tyler’s “Yonkers” works that way. Chess said “shock and awe,” but I wasn’t shocked or awed at all. I watched. He ate a prop cockroach, a bloody nose and hung himself at the end of the clip. Uhm, Bushwick Bill got shot in the eye after an Everclear-fueled binge then lived to produce the “Ever So Clear” song & video centered around the incident. Now that was some shocking sh*t.

The PR labeled it “extraordinary” but I shall not indulge in said Kool-Aid. The beat’s nice and the video is shot well but those are the only positives I can make. I don’t have trouble grasping the whole, they’re misunderstood, bad punks angle and relating to it because we all once were. However, we’re now stuck in an age where rap’s boring so everything labeled as “different” inadvertently becomes “great,” especially when the media & fans (read: white folks & black kids who got bullied in school) feel threateningly entertained or amused by it. No shots @ Tyler or OFWGKTA but my plate only has enough room for one trickster and I see why other artists on the grind feel shunned when mediocre music gets highlighted and pom-poms raised for efforts like “Yonkers.” The track isn’t basura, but…maybe I wasn’t high enough when I watched the sh*t.

Still, the kid is funny as sh*t on Twitter and I’m glad he’s doing music instead of possibly beating up midgets then submitting the videotaped clip to WSHH. And I do think the whole Odd Future collective has an uncanny approach that’s already more refined than many. So I’ll keep watching and listening, waiting until the musical part of their act is fully polished.

It seems as if Young Gliss is sending us new music every day. Every hour, actually. Even with so much heat on deck, his freshly-laced “Life Is Not A Movie” may be the best we’ve heard from the Philly native yet and Dealing With The Pressure 2 is shaping up nicely. Pulling together each aspect of his scattered rap persona and showing off for a beat reminiscent of one by Marshall Mathers, Gliss shares the script of his life via hot lava flows and frozen cold realities checks. Read the rest of this entry »

Candyland

Coco & Her Sister Kristy In Black Men Magazine (NSFW) [Spizzy]

NBA Jam For iPhone [Gizmodo]

Valentine’s Day By The Numbers [Cool Material]

How The Grammys Are Really Decided [TheLoop21] Read the rest of this entry »

Nicki Minaj may be enjoying platinum spoils for her debut Pink Friday at the moment, but she should kiss her lucky vocoder that she should never fall victim to a situation where her countless hours of grind and grit fail to see the light of day. Read the rest of this entry »

Aren’t you just dying to see how the legendary Marvel mutants interacted with one another in the 60s? No? Well…you’re going to learn anyway. Seeing that X-Men Origins: Wolverine enjoyed great success at the box office, why not continue to backtrack in the timeline? Read the rest of this entry »

No time to rest when you’re trying to be a legend…

There may be no better word in the English language to describe The ILLZ’s music other than mysterious. His flow embodies a brooding and desolate feel only made more intriguing by the production he associates himself with. Come next month, his :03 From Gold EP will be made available which should make for a noteworthy follow up to last year’s In Between Video Series. Read the rest of this entry »

While still a young man, YC The Cynic makes Hip-Hop like he’s been doing it forever. His verbal acrobatics could only have been developed through the careful study of emcees past and present, and the flair that he flips lines with is something you usually only see in veteran practitioners of the art. Nevertheless, YC continues to hone his craft. Read the rest of this entry »

J-Love’s joined by three street-wise rap mavericks who recognize that how to really make it in America means learning to survive the jux. Off J-Love’s upcoming Egotistical Maniac. Read the rest of this entry »

According Hip-Hop’s unwritten rules, falling in love with a woman is a direct violation of everything the genre believes in. Drizzy Drake not withstanding, obviously. A song boasting a line up featuring Rocko, Gucci Mane and Webbie eliminates world politics being the topic of discussion from break. The trio combine their efforts over a Zaytoven instrumental with the end result being the ultra-sensitive “I Don’t Love Her.” Read the rest of this entry »

New Trick? Sure, the game needs one of its most endeared thugs. Read the rest of this entry »

Juggling cradles, graves, wombs and tombs is something we all do at least once in our lifetime and Dee Goodz is doing a whole lot of rapping in between those glorious occasions. To kickoff Floetic Justice 2: B.O.T.H. (Booth Or The Hearse), the Nashville titan slamdances in real time to let you know his hunger is official. Read the rest of this entry »

NYT:

“For all of you who were planning to pack up your oldies tapes and go shopping for a 2011 car, there is bad news: you’re too late. According to experts who monitor the automotive market, the last new car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck in the dashboard was a 2010 Lexus. Read the rest of this entry »