| Black Cop. Black Cop! BLACK COP!! BLACK COP!!!: An Inglewood-Raised Police Officer Discusses Racism, Rap, and Ferguson | October 20, 2014 |
Racially profiled and harassed by police as an L.A. teenager, a black cop shares his story while discussing hip hop’s impact on police procedures.
| America’z Most Complete Artist: A Guide to DJ Quik | October 16, 2014 |
The only guide to the music of DJ Quik that you'll ever need.
| Funk Wit Da Style: The Making of Craig Mack’s “Project: Funk Da World” | September 26, 2014 |
A stone cold classic, ‘Flava In Ya Ear’ (as well as its star-studded remix) was like a hip-hop Molotov cocktail. Built on offbeat horn stabs and crashing drums, it was a perfect showcase for Mack’s gruff baritone that, despite being positively earth shattering, sounded musical to the ear. His album Project: Funk da World – which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary – soon followed
| The King & “i”: Hip-Hop’s Savior Complex & Kendrick Lamar’s New Single | September 25, 2014 |
Is there any good in "i"
| Time is a Spiral: An Interview With Kode9 | September 18, 2014 |
A conversation about bass music with the Hyperdub boss
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 […]
| Teach You How to Teach: A Guide to Great Rap Tutorials | April 1, 2014 |
Abe Beame heard that you look like MC Hammer on crack. Everyone’s talking about YG and DJ Mustard’s Compton throwback, My Krazy Life and its standout track, “Meet the Flockers”. In the song, YG gives us a brief overview on the fine points of home invasion. The song is glorious, but it’s hardly the first […]
Art by Sara_for_Dinner Late last year I sat down with Tyler, the Creator for a feature that ran in the Feb/March issue of Malibu Mag. Just a few weeks after the Odd Future Carnival, we met on his lunch break during shooting for the third season of “Loiter Squad.” I’d been told I would have […]
| The Blogger, the Engineer, and the Future of Chicago Hip-Hop | January 29, 2014 |
Tosten Burks deserves a day off. The Blogger and the Engineer The living room is not a living room – overstuffed couches swapped for 50 thousand dollars worth of studio equipment, tile floor crowded with new friends and old. A funky smoke lingers. They line up for the dining room that is not a dining […]
| Mailbag: Future & The Infinite Sadness | December 9, 2013 |
To have your letter considered, send your questions, comments, and favorite Charles Hamilton lyrics to [email protected] Hey can you guys make an official Future mixtape? I can’t follow that fool. He releases crappy album but insanely sick songs on his & other’s mixtapes and I just need a list of his cuts! THX -Chris T. […]
