Somewhere between Rae Sremmurd and early Kevin Gates, the St. Louis' street rap phenoms talk about Ferguson, family, and the St. Lunatics.
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| Summer Mixtape: Brad Beatson | July 4, 2014 |
Brad Beatson turns down only for freedom. In the summer, I’m looking to push play on a playlist and let it ride. It’s too beautiful out. And I know it’s inevitable that some drunken fingertips will hijack the music at some point to play what they want to. So this is my grand attempt at […]
| The INK Ride: RJ & DJ Mustard’s Menacing Cruise | June 17, 2014 |
It’s clear that someone will have to compile a Nuggets for the ratchet era. Too many gems falling through the cracks. Had “Boss Ass Bitch” not gotten the Nicki Minaj remix, no one would’ve been blogging about it. Outside of LA, the attention goes to Mustard tracks like “Show Me” and “My Nigga,” but there […]
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 […]
| Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Get Deeper | September 3, 2013 |
The odds of Freddie Gibbs delivering audio dope when he starts a song off with the word “Slamming,” are even higher than the winning percentage of a regular Gangsta Gibbs song — or even higher than gangsta Gibbs himself. The second time I ever interviewed him, I smoked three blunts in one hour with him […]
| The L.E.P. Bogus Boys & The Coroner Van | May 3, 2013 |
Will Hagle did not pump this up like Dee Brown. The rest of the world was introduced to Chicago’s harrowing new form of gangster rap when Kanye decided to remix Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like.” The song found ‘Ye firing off a barrage of names of young rappers from Chicago. Then he stepped off the […]
