If Yung Berg comes across as cocky and arrogant, it may be somewhat understandable. Where most rappers today are direct offspring of a higher power, the scrappy Chicagoan has carved a path all by his lonesome. Hitting the charts off the back in 2007 with his debut single “Sexy Lady”, the lispy voiced rapper looks to build on the success he tasted early with his official debut, the respectable Look What You Made Me.

Berg obviously wants to be a Pop star, and despite blatantly borrowing pages from the current edition of “How To Be A Rapper” (chronic abuse of the auto-tuner, redundant materialistic themes, R&B singers on nearly every hook) he manages to succeed in delivering some guaranteed platinum ringtones. In-house producer Rob Holiday crafts some catchy melodies on tracks like the dreamy “Outerspace” and “The Business” which feature Berg doing as much singing as he does rapping. Read the rest of this entry »

Instead of reviewing last week as a whole, we figured we would take this time to recap the past few days for those of you who’ve been spending not as much time with us as you may spent in the car traveling, in the beach chair loungin’, @ the pool lampin’…or maybe just catchin’ up on R&R with the time you’ve been afforded away from the daily grind. Read the rest of this entry »

Words By Patrick M.

Many an album has been ruined by a rapper’s misguided ambitions to inject his half-assed singing or shoddy production into the mix. Most MCs, producers, or singers are good at one thing and are better served sticking to it. It’s rare to find an artist that’s able to combine rhyming, rapping, and musical production at a sustained quality. But there are those that are capable of weaving these three skills together into something greater than the sum of the parts. And we can add Black Spade to that list. Read the rest of this entry »