Who else but Skeme The Duke would come into the waning stretch of 2011 and cast a shadow shaped like a “W” across the game? SK has been diligently working working on his craft this year and talking up a storm in rap word. Now we’re blessed with something a like version 1.5 to the previously released The Statement and precursor to whatever 2012 brings. Read the rest of this entry »

If you take enough half court shots, at least one of them is bound to go in. And at this point, that’s all Game really needs. “Red Nation” was excommunicated from cable TV, the collab with Trey doesn’t seem to be going anywhere and the traffic jam disgusted as a Khaled single “Bottles & Rockin’ J’s” was too much. Next up to bat appears to be Chris Brown-shotgun’d single, “Pot of Gold.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Los Angeles life and times of Skeme always prove to be well worth tuning in. He outlines explicit details about the street but he’s not a gangsta rapper. He’s tapped into the artistic side of the studio process but he’s not a rappity rapper, either. In a nutshell, he incorporates nearly every element a Cali head is expected to represent; a few rappers in one. Read the rest of this entry »

If you thought Mr. Exotic Prophet a.k.a. Sleepy Eye Jones b.k.a. Fiend was going to slide through Cali without laying down a few ill rhymes and taking a few pulls of the chronic, you must have hit before he got a chance to. Below is the end result of his escapade which also incorporated the Strong Arm Steady gang, a fire-ass track from The Futuristiks and a real life smoking session without the help of TSS. Read the rest of this entry »