Don’t call Abe Beame killer because he’s killing. Putting your finger on precisely why you come away from Tha Carter 4 dissatisfied is a difficult proposition. It’s brimming with bangers, large hooks, big guest appearances, and experimental song concepts. Wayne is totally and completely invested. His rapping is as energetic and crisp. You can hear […]

Abe Beame is Draking on a million. Jeff Weiss doesn’t enjoy the Weeknd’s or Drake’s music, but the fact that they’re doing it, he doesn’t respect that. The Drake verse at the end of “The Zone” is one of the best “rapped” verses I’ve ever heard from him, it’s just “strippin for tuition” flavored shit  […]

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 feeds his Rottweilers gunpowder. And so for the second time in the first five songs on his first album, Biggie raps with himself. Only the magic moment that was rap in 1994 could a rookie release a two minute and 45 second phone conversation detailing his desire to defend himself from attackers plotting […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]