| Better Than a Chick That Say Yes Too Soon: Has-Lo & Castle “Good Feelings” | September 23, 2014 |
Chris Daly lives like he’s Drop Dead Fred Sure, the summer of 2014 “officially” is over and done with, but unless you’re a student, who gives a shit about arbitrary calendar dates anyway? September 2nd was the hottest day in the D.C. metro area this year, or at least it was for the purposes of […]
Jordan Pedersen doesn’t want to be famous; he just wants to be well-off. What do you call it when you stop reaching for the stars and start reaching for a decent-sized check and a cute girlfriend? Settling? Growing up? Rap is so often the music of aspirations, of getting out and getting rich. But like […]
| Spring Mix – Has-Lo | May 28, 2014 |
Has-Lo is hordeable, sportable, and totally affordable Spring is my favorite time of year. It’s not as hot as summer. Not as brutally cold as winter. Full of anticipation. Everything spreads out in front of us, waiting to be experienced. Once it got warm, you know school is coming to a close for the year. […]
| Thugs on a Computer: Wrecking Crew and Wu Wednesday | April 23, 2014 |
The Wrecking Crew consists of Philly emcees Curly Castro, Has-Lo, and Zilla Rocca. Has-Lo and Zilla Rocca go RAGU on the videos of the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 2000’s. You can download their highly acclaimed 2012 album Wu-Tang Pulp at your own price Zilla Rocca: I woke up this morning to the worst run […]
| 50 Cent and The Laws of Power | April 16, 2014 |
Has-Lo is not a Boy Scout; he’ll air your ass out. 50 Cent is too successful. No one wants to champion that. People love the chase. The come up is the mirror to the chase. When the listener can live vicariously through your chase, the listener is excited like young love. When the artist achieves […]
| Has-Lo Exhales | December 3, 2013 |
To reiterate what Steady Bloggin already said: “This vaguely sounds like a lost Wu-affiliate track, and I mean that as a 100% compliment. I wished he rapped more in the end instead of talking shit, although the shit talking is funny” To be be more clear, if this would be in the realm of Wu […]
| The Wrecking Crew: Thieves with Good Taste | October 24, 2013 |
The pixel killers and slanted squad of gumshoes that comprise the Wrecking Crew are heading out on a tour of the West. The goal is to wind up in Los Angeles, mumbling off the most high octane moss, surrounded by scantily clad aspiring astrologists. So basically the plot of Altman’s version of The Long Goodbye. […]
| The Hindsight of Has-Lo | May 29, 2013 |
Max Bell’s destiny is reaching the keys. Has-Lo’s debut LP In Case I Don’t Make It (below the jump) was one of the best albums of 2011. It’s a throwback that doesn’t feel derivative, overly nostalgic, or overly reverential. It’s something for modern hip-hop listeners and Philadelphians who’ve studied It Was Written and have entered the 36 […]
| Young Bloods: When Zilla Rocca Met Roc Marciano | April 5, 2013 |
Yuppies and tanks, sharks and banks, odd birds with feminine grace. Cobb Salads. Zilla Rocca cracks wisecracks in code, hard-boiled tutorials courtesy of the noir masters. Roc Marci needed no pulp fiction. Hempstead offers its own education of broken glass, bricks and birds. Has-Lo operates on the beats, making guitars sound like swords being sharpened. […]
| The Fossil Fuels of Curly Castro & Has-Lo | February 12, 2013 |
Most of the time, rap is fun and games. Rare is the track that bangs and conveys a social message without being preachy or didactic. Late period Talib is enough to make you dismiss political and “conscious” rap outright. But then occasionally you hear a song that reminds you of rap’s power to stop you […]
