With his latest mixtape, Feature PREZentation II, Inglewood native El Prez is treating his fans to one more project before his full-length, Leadersh!t drops next year (which isn’t really as far away as it sounds). As has everything in 2011, the tape’s cover is fully 3D ready, so strap on your red-and-blues for optimal viewing. Read the rest of this entry »

“Looking for Sharon’s Stone, I fell down Brad’s Pitt, Couldn’t move, so I Ben Stilled for a minute.”

In a nifty way, Hollywood FLOSS plays off the first portion of his stage name and injects himself into a story told by name-dropping the big screen’s A-list players. Read the rest of this entry »

New FLOSS as he and TheHipHopEffect crank up a new series titled Stray Shots Vol. 1, not to be confused with our Stray Shots. Twice a week THHE will premiere a new Hollywood Floss track and in a few weeks the whole thing will be packaged up and released as a mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under “we never would’ve seen this collaboration coming.” Young Floss could actually catch a contact by standing in the same vicinity as Jackie. Read the rest of this entry »

Reality meets fantasy and vice versa twice over on Hollywood Floss‘ latest project, the phrenological analysis House Of Dreams. Tapping into the various emotions humans lapse into while in Lala Land, the Houstonite kicks enough relationship and lifestyle parables to give The Sandman a run for his money. Call it either a pillow fight or sleep aid, Hollywood Floss is aiming to be above the clouds. Read the rest of this entry »

HollyWOOD Floss is feeling introspective and wants to share his mental meanderings with the world. Tinged with well-placed bits of lyrical aggression, “Just My Thoughts” finds the Houston hardhead vents for a mere two minutes but says a mouthful regarding the sideshow aspects of rap, fraudulent behavior by MCs and why we need people like him. Read the rest of this entry »

Between SXSW and A3C, I’ve run into my man hasHBrown more this year than I have certain family members. That anomaly that can be explained by one word alone; hustle. Grinding behind one hell of a work ethic – consisting of rapping, producing and hosting his own H-Town underground One Mic Houston concert series – the man that makes us all hungry for more has already unveiled his next course. Read the rest of this entry »

Another day, another giveaway to wrap up. The winners of the Flud Watches Giveaway are Selin T. of College Station and Rotimi F. of Huntsville. Selin will be receiving a fine The Exchange wristwatch and Rotimi will be receiving a JAES One wall clock. Read the rest of this entry »

We said we’d be coming to a venue near you and we’re bringing Leimert Park’s Dom Kennedy to Austin, Texas on September 3rd. Dom’s has been making his rounds, rocking the Famous Factory with Spitta in NYC to a sold out crowd two weeks ago, hitting up the Grog Shop in Cleveland on August 12th, and the Subterranean in Chicago on the 14th. This show will definitely continue Dom’s momentum on his mission to reach Hip-Hop heads across the map. Texas rap veteran, Killa Kyleon, will also be joining the stage with Dom on this stop as will Hollywood Floss and a few others. Read the rest of this entry »

“First to arrive, last to leave/now run along, grasshopper, while I master my chi/Master MC, the one-and-only rap Bruce Lee/with enough Nike sneakers to outkick Chun Li.”

With lines like those, it’s hard to believe that some people are still sleeping on Houston’s Hollywood Floss. Read the rest of this entry »

Women. Emotional rollercoasters with double D airbags. You wish the ride could go along more smoothly but telling them that would just derail the entire traincar all together. The H-Town superstar, Hollywood Floss knows a thing or three about relationship drama. Filling his House Of Dreams with clouds of reality rap and nightmares towards the opposition, “She Said” is a nod to familiar waters for every partnership under the sun. Read the rest of this entry »

Floss is so countrified, he doesn’t even need verbs. Thankfully, he doesn’t use many while relying on similes, metaphors and adjectives to describe his version of the world’s perfect lady. The track is slated for his upcoming album, House of Dreams, but it’ll find it’s way to a few playlists well before then. Read the rest of this entry »

The new sound of H-Town is again present in the building, as Hollywood Floss continues to show ingenuity on the microphone with a new barrage of bold statements over his own live instrumentation on “I’m Back,” the first bunson burner off a new set of Xperiments.

If kid keeps dropping licorice-twisted lines like “I break bread with my true fam like Master P / every song recorded is a cinematic masterpiece/ ‘master, please’ is what the servant said, but I gotta kill birds after my bread…,” he might one day be etching that expectant sentiment in industry-given ink.

The Xperiment Volume 2 drops later this month.

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Download — Hollywood Floss – “I’m Back”

In an age when there are more rappers than songs and more blogs than rappers, concocting a completely original idea is harder to come by than a 10-point 1986 Fleer Premier #57.

Unless you’re Hollywood Floss.

A while back I posted some skunk from the bubbling Houston rhymesmith and last month he hipped me to his newest offering The Xperiment Vol. 1, a conceptual EP with a twist so unique I had no choice but to share.

“Over the Thanksgiving weekend Floss wrote and recorded as much music as he could and then sent those tracks to me and HailMegatron. Then we decided what tracks to put in each of our mixtapes, change the names of the songs and choose the order.” -The HipHop Effect

“This is one of the most original ideas I’ve ever come across as a blogger. The homie Hollywood Floss gave myself and iDopeboy(TheHipHopEffect) the same tracks and told us to pick which ones we vibed with and post them AND give them their own track titles. I like that idea because I could pick which tracks I liked and what names I wanted to give them based on the feel I got from them. This is why you ALL need to check out Hollywood Floss.” -HailMegatron

The same tape…two different ways…with different song names and titles. Confusing? Yes. Dope? No doubt. In an online world where bloggers dictate hits as is, why not give them a little more leverage, right? I can’t necessarily say which songs I would’ve chosen personally, because they’re all relatively unique in their own right, but I do know I probably would’ve changed the title of said Seinfeld song, “Seinfeld Meets Hollywood Floss,” (been done) and given the prime time spot to “Verbal Slaughter,” because it’s just that.

Don’t like any of our choices? Then support the homie’s mind grind, download both versions and make your own tape.

That’s more fun anyways.

Download — Hollywood Floss Presents Xperiments! Vol. 1 (Megatron’s View)

Download — Hollywood Floss Presents Xperiments! Vol. 1 (Hip-Hop Effect’s View)