Jeff Weiss is a writer from Los Angeles, Ca. He founded POW in late 2005, a curse that continues to this day.
He can be contacted at [email protected]. I guess.
I was recently asked to make a list of my Top 20 favorite rap songs of all-time. This is an absurd endeavor, one prone to immense subjectivity, and impossible to accurately assess. But it was obvious that Baby and Clipse’s “What Happened to that Boy” had to be on it. Maybe it’s the Neptunes beat. […]
| Zuse: The Human Wrecking Machine | July 29, 2014 |
The Jafakin patois is an age-old tactic in rap. During the 90s, rappers used it to pay homage to West Indian roots (Busta Rhymes), express their love of weed (DJ Quik), or merely collaborate with Supercat, Beenie Man, Shabba or Bounty Killer. The trend never really went away even though there hasn’t been a major […]
| Shots Fired, Episode 77: Sage Francis | July 28, 2014 |
Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we are back. Unlike the Teenage Mutant Turtles, we do not have Juicy J, Michael Bay, or an unlimited budget for pizza craft services. Sometimes you eat the shell and sometimes the shell shocks you. Nonsensical blog introduction complete, it’s time I introduce the latest episode of Shots Fired, […]
| Danny Brown & Rustie Attak | July 24, 2014 |
Danny Brown is probably the only rapper who sounds right over these type of intergalactic trap seizure beats. America might not have understood Dizzee Rascal, but they are ready for Danny Brown — at least if I am to believe the pandemonium at every festival he plays. The track taken from Rustie’s new album. Glasgow […]
If something can simultaneously be described as the worst shit ever and the best shit ever, it’s invariably a lock to become huge. Said rules aren’t necessarily restricted to the Internet era, this was the same contradiction that Rick Rubin rode in the early days of Def Jam. As much as methods of transmission and […]
| Summer Mixtape: PremRock | July 24, 2014 |
Premrock is trying to one-up Joel Embiid’s Twitter feed. Photo by Gianna Leo Falcon. Chinatown will always hold a special place in my heart. Not the noir film set in LA but the one of a kind neighborhood in New York City. Summertime in Chinatown smells awful but if you want the best dumplings you […]
| For Whom the Beat Tolls: The Chimes of Hudson Mohawke | July 23, 2014 |
The hidden leather glove of G.O.O.D. music returns with a banger so absolute that Cyhi was sentenced to six hours in the dungeon upon a cursory dismissal of “Chimes.” I expected trap to be deader than DeLoreans by now, but it’s basically subsumed dubstep as the drug of choice by those who shouldn’t be trusted […]
| Bizarre Summer Mix, 2014 | July 23, 2014 |
It’s mid-summer and mercury thermometers across Southern California are slated to scream all weekend long. Triple digits. $150 ski masks to the beach. Weird randoms staring at your tiger-colored one-piece. Holler if you hear none of this. You may have noticed that I was mix-less while the rest of the POW staff stayed pouring gas […]
Average age on this is about 37, proving that the No Flex Zone is an all-welcoming universal paradise garage, absent from flexation. Rae Sremmurd is going to be the best rap trivia question answer in 2024. Via Nah Right
It’s been noted that the female representation in the West Coast ratchet takeover has been fairly weak. A bit surprising, considering that Pink Dollaz, Bangz, and Asia Lynn (who was basically Honey Cocaine before Honey Cocaine existed) once offered a strong counterbalance to the male-dominated jerkin’ scene. But that was a half-decade ago. During that […]
