Titles by Trey Kerby. Illustrations by Brad Beatson.
| Mr. Wonderful & the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics | March 26, 2015 |
DINOSAUR LEGS IN THE BUILDING
Art By Brad Beatson. Left and Right Swiping By Paul Thompson, Torii MacAdams, and Jeff Weiss
| An Illustrated Guide to Wale’s Sadness | July 9, 2014 |
Brad Beatson challenges Wale to a paint-off. Oh sweet, sad, hapless, bowflexing Wale. You’ve truly reached peak Savasana with this one. For those of you off of the Rap Internet, Wale delivered an Oberst-esque message to MMG cohort Meek Mill yesterday, via Instagram. He even went as far as to claim he may be bipolar, […]
I’ve spent a significant part of the last few years taking the death of gangster rap for granted. The narrative that I’ve run with tracks the rise in popularity of artists like (duh) Kanye West, the explicitly fake Rick Ross, and Drake, and the concurrent fall of Young Jeezy, the disappearance of 50 Cent, the […]
| An Illustrated Guide to St. Vincent | March 17, 2014 |
Brad Beatson has Michigan State to win it all. If you like thoughtfully structured songs that dive into neck-snapping guitar solos, you should listen to this album. It’s St. Vincent’s St. Vincent, her fourth studio project and strongest to date. It’s my favorite album of early 2014 and it will certainly appear on many year-end lists. Above […]
| Monday Afternoon Comic: The True Identity of the Yellow King | March 10, 2014 |
This past Thursday, Hellfyre Club and Armand Hammer absolutely destroyed Mercury Lounge in Manhattan. Elucid, Billy Woods, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, milo and Busdriver were a delight. Or so I thought. After the show, and after several drinks, we started talking about True Detective. Like everyone else across the country, we couldn’t wait for the show’s […]
| Sunday Morning Comic: That’s Not My Bae | March 2, 2014 |
Brad Beatson prefers “A Bay Bay.” Twitter has introduced promoted tweets, advertising willy-nilly all over your timeline. Sometimes though, these advertisements are golden. Like this promoted tweet by Vodafone VGE for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Don’t be fooled, that screenshot makes it look like I watched the video, when in fact I was daydreaming this […]
| New FoF Signee, “Different Sleep,” Drops a Single | February 28, 2014 |
| How the Sad Robot Became The Dominant Sound in Rap | February 20, 2014 |
Essay by Dan Adu-Gyamfi, art by Brad Beatson and captions by Son Raw. T-Pain’s use of Auto-Tune influenced many to follow their singing dreams even if their vocal chords refused to go along. A new rap subgenre was born: “Sad Robot Music.” The phrase was coined by site founder, Jeff Weiss, and rapper, Nocando, on […]
