Jeff Weiss is a writer from Los Angeles, Ca. He founded POW in late 2005, a curse that continues to this day.
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| Godfrey at Large: Creature of Habit | July 16, 2014 |
Good music rarely comes from staring at Tumblr as though it were a telescope. Most Internet movements perish within a single press cycle because they lack a core or any cohesive ideas. They’re usually an unbaked synthesis of loose aesthetic cues being reblogged until no one likes it anymore. Beyond high-powered semi-legal narcotics, Los Angeles […]
| Jonwayne Smokes Special Herbs | July 15, 2014 |
As Zilla Rocca tweeted: DOOM is so dope that there are about six rappers under 25 who jack his style wholesale and are Internet sensations. Jonwayne is not one of the imitators. Call him that and he’ll walk up to you in public and throw a shoulder block at your Adam’s Apple, the same way […]
| Dreams & Cigarettes: Memphis’ Jon Waltz | July 15, 2014 |
The rap and R&B collision course that’s been enduring since well before Chris Rock’s prophecies on “Champagne” has become complete. Drake stepped into the cipher with a yarmulkah, a bag of lemongrass candles, and a mission to be the light-skinned Keith Sweat and executed with ruthless Canadian efficiency. Regardless of your feelings on the Sultan […]
| Shots Fired, Episode 76: Chanel West Coast | July 15, 2014 |
Because sometimes you see someone on the Internet whose entire existence is so mystifying that your first thought is, we should probably talk to her on a podcast. Chanel West Coast is a 25-year old white female rapper from the San Fernando Valley, who is signed to Young Money, and stars on a pair of […]
At the height of the jerkin’ phenomenon, the Pink Dollaz always seemed a safe bet for stardom. They were five teenaged girls who rapped inordinately well about eating pussy, lap dances, and the general tenets of bad bitchdom. A half-decade later, PTAF rode that lane to a low-key street hit that Nicki, Empress of Boss […]
| The Berlin Blues of Cory Jreamz | July 8, 2014 |
No time more fitting than now to drop “Berlin Blues,” in which Cory Jreamz of Houston exerts full Teutonic Sturm Und Drang. This is probably not the efficient 4/4 house numbers that Thomas Muller and company are currently celebrating with, but Jreamz gets the black and white German Expressionism tones down pat. In this dream, […]
| Nardwuar Vs. Wu-Tang | July 7, 2014 |
I could watch 24 minutes of the RZA just reciting his own nicknames. Ghostface, U-God, Cappadonna, Masta Killa and Raekwon also in the building. 20 years after The Show, U-God still trying to steal the show. Masta Killa tells Nardwuar that he isn’t pimping his hat right. RZA starts quoting the Buddha, talking kung fu […]
| Camp Lo Still Cold-Blooded | July 7, 2014 |
The team of Ski Beatz and the silky days satin nights squad from the Bronx are like butter that never goes bad. 17 years after the original Uptown Saturday Night, the chemistry is uh, “cold retarded.” That’s the title of their latest song and what it lacks in political correctness, it compensates with classical uptown […]
| Between A Rock Out and A Hard Place: Orlando’s Woop | July 3, 2014 |
It’s pretty clear that when we look back at rap history, one of the most thoroughly entertaining sub-genres is “rock out rap.” We’re usually treated to white people doing mortifying impersonations of black people for commercial gain. If you can listen to Iggy Azalea’s “who dat’s” without cringing, you should probably be locked up in […]
| The 2014 Acid Test | July 2, 2014 |
The Acid nearly inspired a life crisis. The contretemps occurred last Saturday. I was listening to KCRW when a song came on that seemed suspiciously like Bon Iver. But it wasn’t a regular Bon Iver song that makes me want to start pouring organic free-trade pour-over iced coffee all over everyone in Echo Parks. It […]
