9.26 The Cooler
09.26.11Sabrina Athena
Adele Sells 10 Million Worldwide of Her ”21” Album [Popdust]
Five Reasons Why The Netflix Split Is a Great Idea [Uproxx]
A Defense of Childish Gambino [Passion Of Weiss] Read the rest of this entry »
Sabrina Athena
Adele Sells 10 Million Worldwide of Her ”21” Album [Popdust]
Five Reasons Why The Netflix Split Is a Great Idea [Uproxx]
A Defense of Childish Gambino [Passion Of Weiss] Read the rest of this entry »
Black Star’s reunited, at least for the time being, and doing a small tour run that has them hitting House Of Blues locations around the country. During the Chicago stop, Mos Def and Talib bring out Common to perform their classic tune “Respiration.” Read the rest of this entry »
Two of Hip-Hop’s current favorite extraterrestrials – B.o.B and Lil Wayne – smoke dope and rap on “Strange Clouds,” a track set to be featuring on Bobby Ray’s next release. Read the rest of this entry »
So many people have opinions and preconceived notions on Bow Wow and his music, I sometimes feel bad for the guy. You know, when he’s not out making an ass of himself. As the title suggests though, “Alright” is actually just that. Read the rest of this entry »

In the midst of floating around over at The Chuckness yesterday, I was floored by tracks from relatively unknown emcee Skizzy Mars. Today, I was even more impressed after finding out the NY upstart is only 18 years old. Read the rest of this entry »
Looking for new material from Wiz Khalifa? Chevy Woods has that covered by including Wiz on eight out of 11 tracks for The Cookout mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »
Cole releases an accompanying visual for “Daddy’s Little Girl,” one of the iTunes bonus tracks from Tuesday’s Cole World: The Sideline Story. Read the rest of this entry »
Watch the Throne was Frank Ocean’s coming out party and his not one but two appearances solidified his destined stardom. In due time, this man will be the most successful out of the whole OFWGKTA posse. Read the rest of this entry »
Seeing as how “Mafia Music” was aggressive enough and a prime example of quintessential Ross, I’m not mad this “lost intro” did not kick things off for The Fat Man’s 2009 LP. But he couldn’t have thrown this on the project? Like, anywhere? Read the rest of this entry »
While we partied last night, the OVO team let loose the cover for Drake’s sophomore album, Take Care. Read the rest of this entry »
More Anthony Hamilton records continue to surface and I have not the first clue where it’s from. At this point, something is better than nothing and as long as he’s releasing music in some form, I’ll just be thankful for that. Read the rest of this entry »
“Keep on hatin’, I’m gone keep on doing it, Spend a day as me boy, you couldn’t get the shoes to fit.”
Mac’s new video for the track “Smile Back,” his second single off Blue Slide Park. Read the rest of this entry »

Many times, we intro our pieces with quotes from the featured songs. When listening to OnCue’s new single “All The Way,” there was a good handful I told myself to lead with. Read the rest of this entry »
While the mixtape DJ may be having a hard time finding an audience and a comfortable role today, real DJs with an ear for music are still in high demand because they mine through hours of music to handpick the hits. DJ Premier’s Live From HeadQCourterz radio show gathers up all the songs we may have missed and bundles them together for two full hours of music and commentary. Read the rest of this entry »
“I got a dog (a cat) a mouse (a rat), A fly (he won’t die) and a little gnat.”
My little grasshopper friend Chan-Lo gave me homework to do a few days ago. I can’t remember how the question was phrased but essentially the task was to name five songs I consider to be perfect. Read the rest of this entry »