Feb
10

What’s the Word: Exile & Fashawn Keep Rising

Tosten Burks is about to fall asleep on the steps. The latest flourish from Exile and Fashawn shows the difference between hip-hop that promotes fun and hip-hop that simply just is. The two trade bars on top of giggling guitar stutters and the hoots and hollers of a cartoon peanut gallery, chaptered by an off-pitch… Continue reading »

Jan
03

Question in the Form of an Answer: Exile

Exile deserves every ounce of renown he receives. The LA native is an MPC maestro, a producer, a rapper, and now a Nas collaborator. But first he was Aleksander Manfredi, who  started with a pre-fame Aloe Blacc in rap duo Emanon, recording several singles, cassettes and the 2005 album The Waiting Room. Production for Mobb… Continue reading »

Sep
06

Exile’s Intro to the Outro and the Power of Nerditry

Jonah Bromwich’s name really needs to be added to the staff page. If you’re a certain kind of nerd, you’re going to like Exile’s new mixtape Intro to the Outro. If you’re the kind of nerd who wishes that Exile would do a project with a lyrical, possibly-underrated rapper who you realize that you only… Continue reading »

Dec
08

Exile-Population Control

Exile – Population Control (Remixed by Samiyam, Dibiase, Free the Robots) from gregthedude on Vimeo. Exile: the Ray Harryhausen of the MPC. Download: ZIP: Exile-Population Control (Samiyam Remix)”

Jul
20

Radio Days

The official sequel to last year’s Radio drops on August 31, but in the meantime, consider the Exile Radio bonus cuts much more than a blooper reel. The bridge between the Low End and LA’s underground, Exile enlists Teebs, DiBia$e, and Rhettmatic to reconfigure tracks that didn’t need to be reconfigured in the first place. … Continue reading »