| MobbDeen: Future – Turn On The Lights… | July 31, 2012 |
Deen is Batmane. The video for the song of the year is finally here. OK. That was hyperbole. This is not the song of the year. It ranks second only to Future’s “Neva End.” Yep. I’m so sincere right now. Or maybe I’m not. You don’t care. All I know is that Future’s Pluto hasn’t […]
| Do Androids Itch? Only Future Knows…. | July 11, 2012 |
Jimmy Ness owns a Grey’s Sports Almanac. Future’s best friends are his cash, calculator and accountant. The Dungeon Family affiliate joins Mike Will Made It for another hypnotic victory lap and their money multiplies. You know how it goes. As rap’s auto-tune flame keeper, Future favours charisma and song-writing over lyricism. Heavy bass and sharp […]
Deen has to give DJ Drama credit for this one. Maybe “perfect” isn’t the word, but this is how to leverage networking into dope “quality street music” (his words). Bringing the “old” (is it time to start describing Jeezy, T.I. and Luda as old) ATL and one of the leaders of the new ATL together […]
| Fat Tape: April | May 2, 2012 |
Abe Beame takes on the conservative war on women. FAT TAPE: APRIL http://www.mediafire.com/?60fcsbxyw6gr2w2 Full disclosure: The majority of my month was spent listening to Pluto incessantly. Jeff would not let me post 15 Youtube links, so listen to Pluto. These are the nine songs I’ve cobbled together but have more or less skimmed in between […]
| Do Androids Chill at Magic City? Future’s “Pluto” | April 17, 2012 |
Abe Beame: hurling molotov cocktails at our white B-Boy readership since 2010. It’s 2012: when the best rap debut of the year contains almost no rap. That’s the situation Navyvadius Cash has put us in with Pluto, an album that achieves the impossible feat of simultaneously being the most and least conventional album ever released […]
| Odd Future: Atlanta’s Auto-Tune King | February 15, 2012 |
Abe Beame is cosmonaut status. As much as I loved “Racks,” YC and Future’s ear worm from last year, it had all the makings of one of those stumbled-on sounds that a few Atlanta teens seem to find annually, only to become a trivia question shortly thereafter. The abrasive “Scarface,” and Future’s hit-or-miss follow up […]
| The Impressive Emptiness of Future | November 30, 2011 |
Evan Nabavian also enjoys the cinematic stylings of “A Low Down Dirty Shame.” The best application of Auto-Tune is pervy crooning on rap hooks. On “Ain’t No Way Around It,” Future raps in an obscene moan which is somehow okay for a hard-boiled trap rapper because of the robotic veneer of Auto-Tune. Future says absolutely […]
