| Absolutely Fabolous: The Best of Fabolous | November 18, 2013 |
Abe Beame would like to remind you to send your mailbag questions to [email protected] A very happy 36th birthday to Bed Stuy’s own, John David Jackson, better known to the world as Fabolous. You could be forgiven for not knowing Fab’s birthday prior to reading this post. For years, he’s existed as a primarily regional […]
Abe Beame’s reputation precedes him. Hey Passion readers, do you have something to say but no voice to say it with? Do you like the Internet but feel there is not nearly enough content that speaks to you? No opinions or issues that truly mean anything or are worth your hard earned web browsing time? […]
| The Derivatives Market: Pusha T- My Name Is My Name | October 21, 2013 |
Abe Beame is looking forward to Bill de Blasio’s name being incorporated into Cam’ron lyrics. A few months ago, I examined Big Sean’s repugnant Hall of Fame. At the heart of the inquisition was the often undefinable concept of originality. What is it and how does it work? The question is hopeless, because by its […]
| Big Sean & The Authenticity of Style | September 6, 2013 |
Abe Beame is Mayor of Farmville. How important is it that your lyrics reflect reality? People have been arguing this since crack rap’s second Golden Age in the middle of the last decade. 50 Cent, survivor of 9 gunshot wounds was the biggest rapper in the world, and “international drug kingpin” Rick Ross had been […]
| The Corrections: Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagonecologyst | August 5, 2013 |
Abe Beame wants you to consider to “The Infamous Prelude” before reading this. It’s incredible that this was my first time going through Kool Keith’s 96 classic, Dr. Octagonecologyst. It arrived smack in the middle of my burgeoning love of underground hip hop. Sure, there was Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, P.E., all the obvious cultural touchstones […]
| Mac Dre Making You Feel Some Kind of Way | August 2, 2013 |
Abe Beame wants to know where’s Wallace, String? There are a number of commendable things 27 year old director Ryan Coogler has accomplished with his recently released Fruitvale Station. The fairly breezy character sketch of Oscar Grant on the last day of his life does a lot by simply delivering a realistic depiction of an […]
| Yeezus Pieces: Abe Beame | June 19, 2013 |
Let me begin by saying how amazing it is to live in a time when the “finest” minds of our generation have spent a week exhaustively parsing the merits of an album called Yeezus. God bless the internet. I think this album is remarkable in many ways, few of which have much to do with […]
| This is What it Sounds Like When Thugs Die: A Eulogy for Joe Budden | November 28, 2012 |
Art by InkwellDesignGroup Abe Beame has been running a restaurant. He is the blog game, Stanley Tucci. This that shit I don’t like. So much so that I had to emerge from a six month hibernation to rant about it. I was in a cab ride home last night, minding my own business when Hot […]
| Fat Tape: May 2012 | June 4, 2012 |
Abe Beame’s here to remind you that your rent’s overdue. I’ve said this a few times before, but I’ll say it again: I’m loving 2012. We’re halfway through and it already surpasses last year — one of the most miserable in my life as a rap fan. R&B briefly supplanted rap as the genre of […]
Abe Beame’s all time favorite fighters are Bernard Hopkins and LL Cool J. So this happened. I’m guessing the general consensus will be phony internet beef, but I’m intrigued. After all, this one has been percolating for a while. I have a personal link to a producer who was in Hawaii for portions of the […]
