| Bass Clarinet Boom Bap | November 18, 2022 |
Chris Robinson explores hip-hop's history of sampling the bass clarinet and finds a grab bag of eleven tracks featuring the big licorice’s luscious low-end frequencies.
| Small Bills Teach Us How Not to Play It Straight | December 17, 2020 |
From his music reviews newsletter, Will Schube goes in on the recent collaborative joint from Elucid and the Lasso.
Will Schube dig deep with Elucid and Billy Woods about what makes their collaborative efforts so fruitful and the possibility of falling off one day.
| The Rap-Up: Week of August 26, 2019 | August 25, 2019 |
The Rap-Up returns from new joints from Elucid, Kadeem, and more.
| Secure the Bag: Milo and Elucid Are “Nostrum Grocers” | August 23, 2018 |
Ben Grenrock goes in on the new project from Elucid and Milo.
| POTW Premiere: Elucid’s “Jealous God” Video | May 3, 2017 |
Elucid revisits his excellent 2016 album 'Save Yourself.'
We talk with Elucid about institutional racism, his time in South Africa, and his day job as a school teacher.
| Summer Mixtape: Small Pro | July 13, 2015 |
Mobb Deep, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Elucid, M.E.D., Danny Brown, Tribe, and more!
| Life of Crime: Guilty Simpson & Small Professor “Go” feat Elucid & Castle (Zilla Rocca Remix) | December 23, 2014 |
Chris Daly got a heater with a mute button To say there was anything “missing” from the original “Go” from Guilty Simpson and Small Professor’s Highway Robbery would be to imply the track wasn’t smoking in the first place. This would be untrue. Spitting over horns, wavering keys and taut snares taken to chiptuned extremes […]
Paul Thompson leaks Mott Street noodles out his mouth when he talks “We never really stopped,” says Elucid. “We already had the groove.” Armand Hammer is New York’s new perpetual motion machine. After a 2013 that saw both a mixtape (Half Measures) and a critically acclaimed album (RACE MUSIC)—not to mention a solo record from […]
