Don’t leave your younger sister around Deen. There’s a lot of shit that makes being a black man in America fucked up, but my biggest fear isn’t getting shot by the police or some weirdo with race/anger issues while I walk around my neighborhood in a hoody. That would suck, but I’d be dead and […]
| The Tree of Life: Sunday School with Chicago’s Tree | April 5, 2012 |
Jimmy Ness never attended a single nerdy prayer party. Maybe one, but he was drunk. Very drunk. Despite blessing himself with one of the most unassuming un-googleable names imaginable, the sample-warping Chicago producer/rapper Tree is intriguing. He sounds like an injured donkey but also boasts a deep singing voice. His bizarre drawl is singular but […]
| Lil Durk – “I’m a Hitta” | February 29, 2012 |
The chief revelation from Andrew Barber’s highly edifying 10 New Chicago Rappers list for Complex. He was described as a cross between A$AP Rocky and Waka Flocka, which was enough to get my attention. I imagine this sounds a lot better in a car than on anemic computer speakers. I am also partial to the […]
| The Hard White Wolf: Empty Towns and Radioactivity | December 7, 2011 |
A few weeks ago, I spent 24 hours in Vegas with Yelawolf for a piece in the latest Rolling Stone (it’s not available online, so pick it up, pick it up). It’s a uniquely weird phenomena to shadow a rapper on the verge of dropping an album that you haven’t heard, but have insanely high […]
