May
08

MobbDeen: DJ Drama – We In This Bitch (feat. Young Jeezy, T.I., Ludacris & Future)…

Deen has to give DJ Drama credit for this one. Maybe “perfect” isn’t the word, but this is how to leverage networking into dope “quality street music” (his words). Bringing the “old” (is it time to start describing Jeezy, T.I. and Luda as old) ATL and one of the leaders of the new ATL together… Continue reading »

May
02

Fat Tape: April

Abe Beame takes on the conservative war on women. FAT TAPE: APRIL http://www.mediafire.com/?60fcsbxyw6gr2w2 Full disclosure: The majority of my month was spent listening to Pluto incessantly. Jeff would not let me post 15 Youtube links, so listen to Pluto. These are the nine songs I’ve cobbled together but have more or less skimmed in between… Continue reading »

Apr
17

Do Androids Chill at Magic City? Future’s “Pluto”

Abe Beame: hurling molotov cocktails at our white B-Boy readership since 2010. It’s 2012: when the best rap debut of the year contains almost no rap. That’s the situation Navyvadius Cash has put us in with Pluto, an album that achieves the impossible feat of simultaneously being the most and least conventional album ever released… Continue reading »

Apr
08

Future & R Kelly Go Parachuting

I suspect and sincerely hope this song will own radio until Labor Day. It may convince a Metrodome’s worth of people to take that special someone out behind a middle school and get them pregnant. Considering this is R. Kelly, that just sounds creepy. In case you were wondering, Kells is the skydiver pictured above.… Continue reading »

Feb
15

Odd Future: Atlanta’s Auto-Tune King

Abe Beame is cosmonaut status. As much as I loved “Racks,” YC and Future’s ear worm from last year, it had all the makings of one of those stumbled-on sounds that a few Atlanta teens seem to find annually, only to become a trivia question shortly thereafter. The abrasive “Scarface,” and Future’s hit-or-miss follow up… Continue reading »

Nov
30

The Impressive Emptiness of Future

Evan Nabavian also enjoys the cinematic stylings of “A Low Down Dirty Shame.” The best application of Auto-Tune is pervy crooning on rap hooks. On “Ain’t No Way Around It,” Future raps in an obscene moan which is somehow okay for a hard-boiled trap rapper because of the robotic veneer of Auto-Tune. Future says absolutely… Continue reading »