We’ve already been down the Las Vegas strip of audio pleasures with Sean Rose, but it just keeps getting better. The adept rapsmith tactfully blends the right amount of torque to justify his tape’s Overdrive title while still keeping true to the steelo of all the 702 represents. Read the rest of this entry »

New York is finally beginning to regain its own identity. After nearly a decade of wandering aimlessly toward regional trends and pop radio, there is a simmering resurgence of something that resembles the aggressive youth movement that was once the engine that drove Hip-Hop. The movement is small and exists just beneath the surface, but it seems like Rotten Apple Hip-Hop is returning Read the rest of this entry »

Money, power and respect is not only the key to life, it’s the door that leads to the proverbial immortality. Saint Nick is looking for the approval of his peers where it matters the most. Read the rest of this entry »

While you’ll never confuse Kirko Bangz with his lyrically anointed rap peers of other various regions, the Houston dynamo already has one up on them in the art of hitmaking and he’s looking to drive home that point with The Progression 2: A Young Texas Playa mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

You can only get so far “talking the talk.” Eventually your actions are going to have to follow suit or you’ll be a great substitute for a hot air balloon. Billie Slum is taking the early stages of his career quite seriously, recruiting a couple of rap professionales to accent his disserations, live from the asphalt. Read the rest of this entry »

2 Chainz just might have “Money Makin’ Mission” tatted on his eyelids because that’s all he was on in 2011. I’m not even sure he knows how many features he’s done this year. It’s all about the Benjamins, baby. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ll never find a shortage of artists taking alternative routes to get ahead by devising something clever out of the simplest concept. Even if it’s a telephone ringer. While I’m not sure what kind of iOS or Droid software doesn’t go dead when the call is disconnected, the fresh-faced Driicky Graham dials up a very cool song in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s this threshold of euphoria when you’re getting twisted that blurs the lines of being too gone and perfectly lifted. Sean Rose’s new single from the upcoming Overdrive tape manages to capture that. Read the rest of this entry »

Transparency: I’m an Ohio State Buckeyes fan. To say this year has been one Hellish rollercoaster ride through Dante’s seven levels of the Inferno (and back again) is an understatement. I witnessed the dismantling of a storied program over tattoos (tat-f*cking-toos). This makes me very sad. Read the rest of this entry »

While you were out burning off the Turkey Day calories with a little extravagant shopping, P. Blackk was organizing a community block watch in Blackk Friday, his new militant offering which showcases exclusive production from iYeball of Fly.Union. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of rappers like to jaw jack about a whole lotta of nothing but D.R.G. don’t want to waste your valuable time, seeing they’re trying to take it to the top the old fashioned way: with dope music. Imagine that. With that, they call up their co-defendant, Stretch Money and talk some Southern gospel from a Midwesterner’s point of view. Read the rest of this entry »

Someone, please send Shawn Chrystopher an apology letter on our behalf. When his Silent Movies For The Blind EP dropped back at the beginning of October, we really did have every intention of posting it. However, amidst the chaos of being a seamless online publication that actually digests timely material, it took watching a video for “The Credits” of said project to realize we’d missed the initial opportunity by a good thirty days. Read the rest of this entry »

Stop browsing around the Internet and get 2 Chainz’s new tape, T.R.U. REALigion, right here. The artist formerly known as Tity Boi cashes in on the buzz that has him as the architect of one of the more anticipated projects this fall, retail or not. To make the situation official, the mixtape world’s almighty landlord, DJ Drama, joins the festivities to add the Gangsta Grillz stamp of approval. With the make up favoring more album than tape, the Codeine Cowboy assembles a who’s-who cast of producers and features. Read the rest of this entry »

You probably haven’t heard of The First Street Heat and you haven’t heard anybody like The First Street Heat. But if funk, soul and Hip-Hop happen to be your music of choice, you may want to give them a spin. Born in the rolling Appalachian hills of Athens, Ohio, The First Street Heat are musical alchemists. Their sound is something funky, borrowing melodic Motown soul with elements of jam bands like Phish and, for good measure, rap. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s something unique about hype and anticipation. Eventually, it all boils down to the product to validate them. For ASAP Rocky, rap’s new wonder kid of the moment, the time is now. Read the rest of this entry »