| Why Is Big Sean Famous?: An Inquisition | July 12, 2011 |
Follow Abe Beame down the rabbit hole……..(II)……. In the late 90s, prior to Napster and the slightly more meritocratic system of Internet rap, there was a type of album that would drop roughly once a quarter. A rapper you’d never heard of before would suddenly make his presence known in the Source and radio with […]
| Nas and the Partial Return of Escobar Season | May 3, 2011 |
Evan Nabavian stabbed Un and made you take the blame. Nas has officially returned from his Damian Marley-guided African pilgrimage with two new guest verses. Fortunately, all that spirituality hasn’t left Nas so high-minded (or high) that he can’t make songs called “Dog Shit” and “So Fresh.” You can’t really hail these two as the […]
| Sean Falyon ft. Playboy Tre & Scar-“Wonderful Life” | November 5, 2009 |
Another post should be up later this afternoon, deadlines and dawdling permitting. In the interim, necessity demands sharing this incredible cut from the ATL’s top-ranking Lonnie Lynn/Rick Bawse impersonater, Sean Falyon. The West Philly-raised Falyon, pairs up with the dependably great Playboy Tre and Scar, to drop an incredibly poignant slice of the Dungeon Family-type […]
| Only Built 4 Skinny Jeans Part 4 (The Search for 3) | September 17, 2009 |
Under no circumstances should Skinny Jeans and a Mic be better than Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon. After all, Cudi has the co-signs (Kanye, Common, the uh, Black Eyed Peas) the would-be indie icons brought in for Aoki-crowd mustache cred (MGMT, Crookers, Ratatat) and the back-story: at age 11 loses father to cancer, makes […]
| A Season on the Links | March 9, 2007 |
Good book and all, but honestly why was anyone surprised when it come out. It might’ve been the least shocking thing I’ve ever read. Newsflash: Bobby Knight’s an asshole. Moving on. First and foremost, Crooklyn’s Classics is holding it down this week, posting on a greatest hits of mid-90s hip-hop soundtracks. Included, among others are: […]
| The Spanish Rap-Up: Vol. 2 | October 9, 2024 |
Santiago Cembrano comes back with the Spanish Rap-Up, highlighting the best new rap songs from Argentina and Spain, Chile and Colombia, and even boom-bap from Baja California.
| The Spanish Rap-Up: Vol. 1 | July 22, 2024 |
Santiago Cembrano delivers the inaugural Spanish Rap-Up, highlighting the best in Spanish Rap throughout 2024 thus far, from ll Pekeño, Kei Linch, Las Ninyas del Corro and more.
| The POW Best Rap Songs of 2020 | December 28, 2020 |
The best rap of the worst year.
| More Juice than Zeus: Celebrating Outkast’s “Liberation” at 20 | September 19, 2018 |
Steven Louis explores the powerful deep cut from Outkast's 1998 classic.
| Call Me By My Other Name: tsar of gamble Gets Wordy on ‘a furnace in the coin fountain’ | July 30, 2018 |
Sun-Ui Yum takes a look at tsar of gamble's new LP, 'a furnace in the coin fountain.'
