Deen doesn’t give a fuck what you like. Before I hit play on this shit, I was pretty sure that I’d just be able to delete a paragraph or two, copy and paste a few nouns from the post about Rawse’s single, and call it a day. Alternately, I figured this song would be so […]

If you ever use the phrase ‘grown n’ sexy,’ around Deen, he will splash lava in your eyes. So yeah. Due to the mass induced delusions that Rick Rawse inflicted on otherwise reasonable folks during Spring/Summer 2010 with the twin salvos of ‘MC Hammer’ and ‘B.M.F.’, we’ve (who are we?) all come to the realization […]

Deen doesn’t dance no more, all he does is diss. At some point during my adventure with Trackstar the DJ’s Out Of The Darkness – The Best Of Organized Noize, I came to the slightly annoying realization that I’m a bit of an asshole. Well, I’ve known this since I was about seven, but I’m […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deen only needs one person to agree with him. I was gonna say this song “grew” on me, but that’s untrue. I loved it from jump. As is often the case with Nas singles, I was more concerned about OTHER people’s reactions to the song than mine (for the record, this may be the only […]

Allow Deen to bloviate a bit. I’m not going to pretend that I’m an expert on foreign or French rap. I’m not. That said, I’ve listened to a ton of MC Solaar, because it’s the cultured (read: bougie) equivalent of listening to an AZ album (well, AZ’s debut album): the most buttery and gawdly of […]

Deen swears this isn’t nepotism. First Akon came for our ears. As an African, I was low-key proud of what the guy achieved in the music industry – if not the music. Then Wale showed up and I was on the team for a minute until we really got to know about his smarmy, over-sensitive […]

Deen was once a psychotic neurotic. More than most rap fans, I tend to worry a lot about some of the OGs that made the music of my youth (yeah, I’m getting used to this old nigga shit). I say “more than most” because most rap fans I know give zero fucks about cats like […]

Deen owns four Lexus coupes in homage to “It Was Written.” Funny fact: when the industry took their money with them back to Atlanta (or Miami or Chicago) or wherever the fuck is “next,” the folks in Houston didn’t stop making music. Good music for that matter. Slim Thug was alway my personal favorite of […]