We here at The Smoking Section made mention that electronic club music became part of the American cultural zeitgeist this year. Thank producer Clams Casino for helping to cram the heady, glitchy sound into our collective consciousness. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite half the industry dropping “Drug Raps” on the daily, the Houdini-like Corey Gunz unpacks this menacing brick of straight bars, which serves as a sequel to the uncut OG from his 2009 Gangsta Grillz tape. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeing as Harlem’s A$AP Rocky hails just about 20 minutes from the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood G-Unit made infamous a decade ago, it’s only right these two generations of New York share a song on Banks’ long-awaited Cold Corner 2 mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

A quick roundup of the latest tracks to hit the Interwebs, leading the pack with Mac before his Blue Slide Park debut hits stores on Tuesday, November 8th. For “My Team,” young Miller puts on for his squad and teams up with Clams Casino, the name behind most of Live.Love.A$AP Mixtape. 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 »

We’ve all heard the phrase, “don’t buy into the hype.” But what happens when society moves so fast hype starts setting the trends? What happens when businesses are making potentially door-closing decisions on a whim because of the staggering pace at which their industry moves, and murmurs from one niche of the Internet lure them into a corner of no return? Read the rest of this entry »