Sir Aah’s been on my radar for a minute. He’s cooked up joints with the likes of Nipsey Hussle, the Clipse and, most notably, all four members of Slaughterhouse. But it’s a double-edged sword, and with all these A-List features, he’s taken some criticism, over the years, mainly for not being able to keep his raps up to their level. But “I Wonder if the Lord Knows” isn’t cast from the same mold. Read the rest of this entry »

Best known as Crooked I’s posse, the Horse Shoe G.A.N.G. attempts to break through on their own merits with Firing Squad. Unlike their previous effort, Firing Squad does not co-bill Crooked, emphasizing the focus on creating a new set of West Coast stars. While the collective rhyming efforts of G.A.N.G. members  Demitrius Capone, Julius Luciano, Kenny Siegel, and Andrew “Dice” Dinero are noteworthy, the album lacks the breakthrough single necessary to put this collective into the ears of even the dedicated Hip-Hop fan. Read the rest of this entry »

You created a hot hashtag, Crooked I created a hot song. For the first leak from Planet C.O.B Vol. 2, “#Okbye” finds the new Shady Records sharpshooter flipping this oft-used trending topic into another one of his many online promo campaigns. Come to think of it, Crook’s guitar-laden gangsta’s sermon has had proper promo behind it for months, Read the rest of this entry »

Judging from most of Crooked I’s rhymes, you wouldn’t be able to guess he’s anything more than a connoisseur of the finest bitches and a drinker of only the most premium malt liquor. But upon a quick dig through outlets like Twitter, it’s very obvious that Mr. Pigface Weapon Waist does have a bit more of a socially conscious side than most think. “Villain” is a song that proves just that, as its content deals with the overcoming of poverty, the crime life, and government injustices. Read the rest of this entry »

Mik’s The Dark Room releases next Tuesday but for this Tuesday, he’s letting loose one hell of a warning shot with “Runnin’ My City,” a monstrous track full of emcees who all happen to be ten toes down in their respective towns. Read the rest of this entry »

Your weekend listening material is here with Budden’s latest Mood Muzik: A Turn 4 The Worst. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since XXL slighted Crooked I by neglecting his contribution to the origin of the weekly release, he’s been a man on a mission. A mission to not only make them acknowledge and apologize for their mistake, but to show the world he can do the whole thing over again by force-feeding an additional year’s worth of rhymes down our throats (||) Read the rest of this entry »

Aspiring rappers may reconsider their career path after hearing Locksmith and Crooked speak on the “Grey Area.” Well-versed in the theme of industry horsepucky and breaking down barriers like Juggernaut Read the rest of this entry »

Words by C. Paicely

“I got to know her on my sofa/I gave her my honorable discharge and she took it like a soldier.”

Yes. Mouse is back, a week later, with leak number two from his upcoming release Mood Muzik 4, and the title of this project is making more and more sense. While the first leak, “Black Cloud,” had that therapeutic and confessional mood that always seems to add to Joe Beezy’s lyrical muscle mass, “Sober Up” uses an oft-used line from Tupac’s “Hail Mary” to strike a less apologetic tone for his behavior. Read the rest of this entry »

Like the title says, this is not – I repeat, not – Kanye West’s new video. What it is, however, is a video link I was lead to blindly by @TheRealCrookedI, which leads viewers to believe they are about to witness Powder Pusha’s first glimpse of G.O.O.D. Music’s spaced-out visual team. Instead, straight hilarity. Read the rest of this entry »

I try not to get too excited about any musical events or traveling period. All of the pre-planning and coordinating involved usually does well enough at distracted me from the anticipation anyways. However, I fell head over heels in love with A3C rather quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

“I spit polish/That’s the reason I proceed to shine…”

Last week, MZ and Beware laid down their thoughts on Crooked restarting his weekly freestyle series, and made some good points about its lack of originality. This week he continues to prove them right, laying down a hundred or so bars over Torch’s “Bang Yo City” instrumental. Despite it being a solid freestyle track with scattered quotables here and there, it sadly doesn’t Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday’s aren’t just for comic books any more. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine yourself and an equally educated Hip-Hop head on the blacktop, picking out a three-man, Westcoast posse cut with every notable Golden State MC from the past five years standing directly in front of the two of you. You’ve got a limited budget, so any one of the eight-figure hitters like Cube and Doc Dre need not be contemplated. Read the rest of this entry »

Without giving a strict compare & contrast analysis on the rest of Recovery, “Ridaz,” an iTunes bonus track for Em’s new album is this shi!t, right? The diggy Dr. Dre infused the right amount of adamantium (read: metal) over his trademark loop ‘n snare to remind us all why he’s still the reigning beat chiropractor. Read the rest of this entry »