There is no truth to the rumor that Abe has become A$AP Beame. Or is there? The World of A$AP is expanding and we’ve got to enjoy ourselves while we’re here. Cleveland, Harlem and Houston were blended brilliantly on the A$AP debut. Rocky found his Houston inspiration in drank and car culture and the Houston […]

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 […]

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 […]

Abe Beame is running for Mayor of New York. Vote early and often this Fall. As someone who wiled away their formative post-grad years on verbose Clipse meditations, it’s a pleasure to engage in a good old-fashioned long form debate. With your critique, Deen, you invite my client Mr. Chainz into a long proud lineage […]

Abe Beame is in a different world and you kind of look like Jasmine Guy. Download:  http://www.mediafire.com/?zg79d7f82wf3bz7  Hodgy Beats – “In a Dream” As most people observed when this dropped, Hodgy’s Untitled EP is a vision of what OF could’ve been if the internet didn’t ruin everything. To me, the projects harkens back to when […]

Image via Up North Trips Abe Beame would like to pay his respects…. The following is a list of Knicks who could’ve served as the possible victim in the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Story to tell”: Doug Christie, Hubert Davis, Ron Grandison, Derek Harper, Doc Rivers, Anthony Mason, Allan Houston, Chris Jent and Larry Johnson. Why does […]

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 […]

Abe Beame’s quest to transform The Passion into The Source circa 94 continues……. Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?emtegaxfd85dsve This will possibly be a recurring feature, but if nothing else, here is a selection of tracks curated and commented on by myself from January in this year of our Lord, 2012. Nicki Minaj- Stupid Hoe: Great stuff, mainly because […]

Abe Beame knows Captain Ron too. Consider everything you know about Arizona Ron. We know what part of Arizona he’s from, what kind of car he drives, the crew he used to run with, that he has a predilection for the Isley Brothers, he’s bilingual, the motto he has tattooed around his gun wounds, how […]

Abe Beame is talking square biz. It’s hard to keep up with the internet in 2011. Both music and its criticism changes faster than truths can even be registered. By the time you figure out what’s happening, the herd has already moved on. So it should come as no surprise that since I started writing […]