Remember Jay-Z’s adlibs on dead prez’s “Hell Yeah (Pimp the System)”?

“We together on the same track now, baby, Whatchu gone call us now?”

In those two phrases, Jay summed up the revolutionary act that he, Stic Man and M-1 were undertaking by combining a respected “underground” mainstay with a “mainstream” MC who had taken his talents from the block to the Grammy awards. In the ten years since that track dropped, the lines between underground and mainstream have blurred Read the rest of this entry »

Post-prison T.I. has been a single man demolition machine, relentlessly annihilating guest appearances left and right without regard to women and children. However, tackling your own project is always a whole different beast than loaning out a quick 16. Read the rest of this entry »

Lawwdddd, that boy Trouble got a hold of Jay-Z’s timeless “Where I’m From” and more than did it justice. Read the rest of this entry »

The Coke King, French Montana, would like to thank all of you who thinks his flow sucks, isn’t talented enough to be signed and ruins hooks on big name songs for fueling the fire he needs to succeeds. Read the rest of this entry »

You probably thought Trouble was just this loose cannon who popped off at every opportunity, didn’t you? Well, you’re wrong because he’s also a guy whose ol’ lady did him wrong and his only outlet to vent was through the Chase N. Cashe produced record “I Can’t.” When Gotty forwarded the e-mail saying the Whiteboy D-directed clip shows “a different side of Trouble, that’s for sure,” turns out he wasn’t lying. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of people see money as validation. In reality, coincidentally, it’s often used as a facade to hide deficiencies that were there since birth. See, I’m calm when addressing the subject of money and people’s personalities. Trouble, however, is far from it. Read the rest of this entry »

Duct Tape and D5M are back with more Trouble. This time around it’s the release of the Atlanta rapper’s Green Light mixtape, hosted by Don Cannon. Read the rest of this entry »

Trouble’s December 17th has its spot nestled firmly in my personal list for favorite projects of 2011. Equal parts honest, vivid and graphically ignorant, DTE’s live wire is seeing his career spawn into something bigger than his Zone 6 roots likely ever prepared him for. Come next week, Trouble’s follow up tape, Green Light, hits the information superhighway branded with the co-sign of one Don Cannon. Read the rest of this entry »

Trouble’s been on a complete tear since his December 17 release, both the jail date and mixtape. And with a little under 100 days left in the first stage of his 365-day plan, DTE’s prodigal son’s gearing up to release Green Light – complete with an official stamp from mixtape heavyweights DJ Drama and Don Cannon Read the rest of this entry »

Pending Boosie ever comes home, the welcoming party would be something worth writing home about. Trouble and The Mob are the latest artists to pay homage to the incarcerated street tycoon. Coincidentally, while building up Bad Azz, they tear down the police department in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

“It ain’t nothing to me, I’ll get it done, Try to run, Pump to ya back like Bobby Johnson’s son.”

The Duct Tape team continues to raise the banner for Atlanta, unbeknown to so many outside Atlanta’s infamous zones. Read the rest of this entry »

Creating a sequel can sometimes be artistic suicide. This doesn’t seem to be the case for Alley Boy and his Definition Of Fuck Shit 2. Read the rest of this entry »

Even if you have only been paying attention to the visuals, it’s easy to see that Trouble’s December 17th is one of the most polished projects to drop the current fiscal year. In a perfect world, these songs would serve as an amalgam for radio and club fodder, with each of them transcending every region like locusts in biblical times. Read the rest of this entry »

“I swear young women are lost these days, but older women dig me/F*ckin’ women that knew Biggie so it really ain’t no biggie…”

Future’s “Tony Montana” has been bubbling below the Mason-Dixon line for a few months now, but apparently all hands are on deck to take it nationwide with the release of the “official version” featuring Drake. Read the rest of this entry »

Duct Tape’s shoot first, ask questions later live wire, Trouble, continues to shake things up. What we have here is the traptastic remix to his street anthem “Bussin’” featuring hood favorites Yo Gotti, Waka Flocka and Trae Tha Truth. Read the rest of this entry »