Former Mayor of New York City.
Currently Listening:
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
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Currently Watching:
Inherent Vice
Top Five
Her
The Master
There Will Be Blood
Foxcatcher
Moneyball
Whiplash
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Currently Reading:
Dataclysm by Christian Rudder The Accidental Empire by Gershom Gorenberg Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon| “Look At Me”: An Oral History of Watch the Throne | August 9, 2011 |
Abe Beame hacked the email of a culture writer from GQ to bring you this from September’s issue. Sean “Jay-Z” Carter: I remember it was like four o’clock in the morning. I was in Hawaii like a year ago and I get this wild text from Kanye, I still have it in my phone, hold […]
Abe Beame loves your fucking attitude. Ready to Die. September 13th, 1994. It was game changing in the purest sense of that played out term. You can’t discuss a single song without assessing it in the context of the album itself. Puffy and Biggie brought the big picture, a cinematic vision, one present in every […]
| A Story to Tell: Biggie Smalls and Narrative | July 26, 2011 |
Abe Beame took the bread and the lamb spread. Part 1: Love No Hoe You run into immediate problems when you start analyzing Biggie Smalls. For kids steeped in his brief catalog, it’s practically scripture. Most hip hop fans interested in these type of workouts can already recite the songs by heart. After all, by […]
| Summer Jamz: Abe Beame’s “Scenes From a BBQ” | July 14, 2011 |
Download: Abe Beame’s “Scenes From a BBQ” Here’s my go-to recipe for a grill out. I don’t apologize for ripping this directly from the Babbo cookbook, without alteration in the slightest — you don’t fuck with perfection. Start with a pair of pork chops in a brine: composed of 4 quarts of water, one cup […]
| Why Is Big Sean Famous?: An Inquisition | July 12, 2011 |
Follow Abe Beame down the rabbit hole……..(II)……. In the late 90s, prior to Napster and the slightly more meritocratic system of Internet rap, there was a type of album that would drop roughly once a quarter. A rapper you’d never heard of before would suddenly make his presence known in the Source and radio with […]
Don’t thank Abe Beame later. When the die is cast, where will Pete Rock stand in the pantheon of great producers? Heavy D’s little cousin has a Forrest Gumpish quality of always being in the right place at the right time. You will find the greatest rappers working during the golden era here, a diverse […]
| Jadakiss Lurves You….You, Yes You | June 1, 2011 |
Abe Beame can imitate the Jadakiss cackle with his eyes closed. Within New York, there’s a demographic comprised of hood dudes who practice an orthodox strain of Hip Hop. If you ask them and more likely if you don’t, they will tell you with a straight face that Big Mike, DjJ Envy and Tapemasters Inc.’s […]
Abe Beame traded in his Timbos for some suede wally Moccasins. My tastes these days generally run against the grain of the chest beating 41st-siders who won’t stop talking about Action Bronson and still rock oversized Yankee fitteds over doo rags. And on paper, Pete Rock and Smiff N Wessun has the same kind of […]
Photo via Austin Surreal Abe Beame is always cooking up something marvelous. What a difference a year and two critically acclaimed mixtapes make. Last June, Big K.R.I.T. had some buzz going — but not enough to save him from famously being booed off stage for attempting to perform “Country Shit” at a Jay Electronica/Joell Ortiz […]
| Bleeding Heart of Darkness — The Weeknd’s Dirty Game | March 22, 2011 |
Abe Beame didn’t even need to make a Chris Isaak joke. Abel Tesfaye and Jeremy Rose are an indie rock-influenced R&B outfit from Toronto who call themselves The Weeknd. If this wasn’t bad enough, they’ve just released an obnoxiously promoted demo called House of Balloons. Yes, for those under the impression they’re listening to a […]
