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.
| Shots Fired, Episode 75: Only That Real ft. IAMSU! | July 1, 2014 |
As mentioned yesterday, Richmond’s own IAMSU! took a trip down Interstate 5 to make his second appearance in the Cosmic Zoo. The co-founder of the HBK Crew talked to us about basketball, the based God, buying weed brownies in Berkeley, Bay Rap, and his latest album, Sincerely Yours. In addition, Nocando and I talked about […]
It’s time to start thinking about where Killa Cam ranks as one of the all-time great rappers. He ghostwrote Lil Kim’s “Crush on You” sixteen years ago, kicked Jay-Z off his biggest hit, and wears capes at 40. His flow has been chipped and implemented by almost every rapper who was in junior high when […]
| Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs & A$AP Ferg Walk Into a Bar | June 30, 2014 |
“My jewelry gold like the tokens at Chuck E. Cheese.” Quoth semi-professional gemologist, Jeffrey Williams. Thug raps like he’s only been eating weed brownies, Strawberry syrup and soda and molly for the last six months. His insides probably look like rotting pumpkin, but his raps are box cutter sharp. Wayne is the most obvious analogue, […]
| Shots Fired Video: Only That Real Ft. IAMSU! | June 30, 2014 |
The latest Shots Fired drops tomorrow with young Sudan Williams, but here’s a taste of the high stakes conversation in store. This episode was originally recorded during the Western Conference Finals; hence, we are unaware that Serge Ibaka would soon shake off the hex of the Based God. (But we all knew that OKC would […]
| The Big Fundamental: Curren$y Drops Five Videos at Once | June 30, 2014 |
After six years of putting out music on the Internet, Spitta Andretti is reaching Tim Duncan status: his consistency is boring. This year’s The Drive In Theatre, released in February, is Curren$y’s twenty-fifth mixtape since 2004 according to his Wikipedia. The project came and went like a Tim Duncan boxscore of 21 and 10 in […]
In the wake of Chile’s crushing World Cup defeat, Nicolas Jaar “had to ‘post’ this.” For as they say he is a real one, who refuses to shy away from bad puns or soul gospel edits.
| The Sustained Rise of Mono/Poly | June 26, 2014 |
It’s hard to believe it’s been a half-decade since the summer and fall of 2009, when Mono/Poly’s “Beatles Bitch” and “MS-14” acted as nitroglycerin inside Low End Theory. Dubstep had yet to defeat itself and the suplexing wobble and bass of his tracks was so heavy you didn’t even know to respond. They felt like […]
| The Koreatown Oddity Splices and Dices | June 25, 2014 |
First things first: the Koreatown Oddity isn’t Korean. He may be a wolf, but I’ve never seen him with the mask removed. You can tell from the costumes and punchlines that DOOM and Kool Keith are the two most direct fathers to Dominique Purdy’s rap style. But if you open your ears, the influences go […]
For the first time in recorded history, Shots Fired drops on the day we promised that it would drop. Our guest is the venerable Ohio architect, Blueprint, who stepped into the Cosmic Zoo to tell stories about the early days of Columbus hip-hop with Camu Tao, RJD2 and MhZ, computer programming, the travails of running […]
| Shots Fired Video: Respect the Architect ft. Blueprint | June 23, 2014 |
The next episode of Shots Fired drops tomorrow, featuring Blueprint. In this clip, we talk about the early ties between Def Jux and Rhymesayers, meeting on message boards, mixtape trading and the bridge between Print’s Columbus and Minneapolis. Other episodes of Shots Fired video below.
