Deen understands the doctrines of Bubba Sparxx: be honest and admit that none of us will ever date a model. It’s a corny to admit, but music really does serve as a soundtrack to our dreary lives of quiet mediocrity  — or if you’re T. Boone Pickens, music just serves as an avenue for you […]

Deen loves you like a overweight adolescent adores pastry. For a guy that’s always seemed to “get it” – “it” being how to ransack the rap industry for all its worth, Fif doesn’t seem to get it anymore. The Lost Tape is YET ANOTHER collection of great 50 Cent songs that’ll probably get largely ignored […]

Somebody had to say this. That somebody is Deen. So Mr. Fiasco, aka, Mr. Can’t Do Right stepped in the proverbial “it” again. Typical. What the fuck is wrong with this Lupe fella? I mean, what’s his major malfunction? Far be it from me to declare anything in hip-hop sacred (can’t slander shit effectively that […]

Deen doesn’t give a fuck what you like. Before I hit play on this shit, I was pretty sure that I’d just be able to delete a paragraph or two, copy and paste a few nouns from the post about Rawse’s single, and call it a day. Alternately, I figured this song would be so […]

If you ever use the phrase ‘grown n’ sexy,’ around Deen, he will splash lava in your eyes. So yeah. Due to the mass induced delusions that Rick Rawse inflicted on otherwise reasonable folks during Spring/Summer 2010 with the twin salvos of ‘MC Hammer’ and ‘B.M.F.’, we’ve (who are we?) all come to the realization […]

Deen doesn’t dance no more, all he does is diss. At some point during my adventure with Trackstar the DJ’s Out Of The Darkness – The Best Of Organized Noize, I came to the slightly annoying realization that I’m a bit of an asshole. Well, I’ve known this since I was about seven, but I’m […]

Don’t leave your younger sister around Deen. There’s a lot of shit that makes being a black man in America fucked up, but my biggest fear isn’t getting shot by the police or some weirdo with race/anger issues while I walk around my neighborhood in a hoody. That would suck, but I’d be dead and […]

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 […]

Allow Deen to bloviate a bit. I’m not going to pretend that I’m an expert on foreign or French rap. I’m not. That said, I’ve listened to a ton of MC Solaar, because it’s the cultured (read: bougie) equivalent of listening to an AZ album (well, AZ’s debut album): the most buttery and gawdly of […]

Deen swears this isn’t nepotism. First Akon came for our ears. As an African, I was low-key proud of what the guy achieved in the music industry – if not the music. Then Wale showed up and I was on the team for a minute until we really got to know about his smarmy, over-sensitive […]