Jonah Bromwich knows but one wealthy industrialist. “Ephemera” initially seemed like the right word to describe Race Music. These are loose associations communing over semi-hardcore beats. Philly and D.C. kids, Elucid, Billy Woods, rapping as Armand Hammer, ripping wisdom-filled one liners all over the place. I don’t have it all together just yet. T-shirts and […]

Zilla Rocca takes a break from life as a Bourbon general to break down why Billy Woods is every otherground rapper’s favorite rapper. Superman sucks. Spider-Man is a bitch. But they both have day jobs. Billy Woods has a day job. I don’t know what it is, but he has one. He released an album […]

The horns are pretty warm to approximate the feeling of “Frozen Sunlight.” I’ll presume the chill comes from the punchlines. Mike Eagle drops one of his more quote-worthy verses in recent memory, riffing on the Large Professor telling rappers not to say the year and the apathetic stares of Eliza Dusku and Zooey D (even […]