| The Rap-Up: Week of November 4, 2024 | November 5, 2024 |
The latest Rap-Up finds Steven Louis highlighting new releases from Danny Brown, Young Slo-Be, Ice Cube and others.
| Down With The Sickness: The Best Nu Metal-Rap Collaborations | August 2, 2023 |
Amidst the nu-metal revival, Pete Hunt dives into the nine best nu-metal x hip-hop collaborations.
| A Definitive Ranking of All the Original 5 Mic Albums in The Source | September 29, 2020 |
No stranger to insanely ambitious (or flat-out insane) projects, Abe Beame attempts to settle the debate over the greatest 5 mic album once and for all.
Say "Fuck You Ice Cube."
Who will compete for the title of Hardest Rap Album of All Time? Vote until Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: Vote on the Sweet 16 | April 28, 2015 |
Voting closes Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST
Art By Brad Beatson. Left and Right Swiping By Paul Thompson, Torii MacAdams, and Jeff Weiss
| Bizarre Summer Mix, 2014 | July 23, 2014 |
It’s mid-summer and mercury thermometers across Southern California are slated to scream all weekend long. Triple digits. $150 ski masks to the beach. Weird randoms staring at your tiger-colored one-piece. Holler if you hear none of this. You may have noticed that I was mix-less while the rest of the POW staff stayed pouring gas […]
| Summer Mixtape: Torii MacAdams | July 10, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams just finished wiping his car down Summer jams are supposed to be breezy, feel-good anthems, girding the assumption that shit is sweet. It’s easy to view summertime with soft-focus nostalgia, especially in Southern California, a supposed paradise marketed to doe-eyed outsiders since the mid-Nineteenth Century. The truth is, the proverbial shit ain’t sweet, […]
| Summer Mixtape: Max Bell | July 3, 2014 |
Max Bell once played basketball with Nate Dogg. Last week, a friend and recent L.A. transplant told me 2Pac and Dr. Dre songs left still bodies staring at the deserted dance floor of a Westside lounge. Outsiders equate lack of motion to tracks from the accepted West Coast rap suzerain with treason. And yet, this reaction […]
