When the sad robot met the sad robot. I just wish we could have a grand remix with Gates and Future and the wealthy homie. Gates naturally murders this, the way he did “Love Sosa.”   I’m pretty sure that Rich Homie Quan has a low-level strain of Asperberger’s, as no matter what anyone does […]

It’s been said by Deen and others that Kendrick omitted plenty of great rappers off the laundry list of rappers that he bleached. Killer Mike, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs, Gunplay, Kevin Gates, Action Bronson, Schoolboy Q. Along with Kendrick, those are my picks for the top eight of the last year and none were mentioned […]

Bodega rap from the dirty. Gates links up with the Cashville All Star for this cut from Stranger Than Fiction. Video looks like it was coated in the appropriate layer of decay, filth, and red solo cups. Croaking world-weary rap is always the best rap.

Kevin Gates: he really does it. For murderous street narratives, there is only him and Kendrick. Maybe Gibbs and The Hybrid when they want. Who else has lines like: where were you when I was slumped over, gums hurting from an old bullet, in front the toilet puking my insides while I was hunched over.” […]

Kevin Gates: everybody’s sworn favorite — except for the one guy in the comments section who insists otherwise.  We celebrate complicated personalities in rap — at least in the post-Kanye world. I have met few more tough to categorize than the Baton Rouge vampire-loving auto-tune-using anti-materialist who loves luxury goods. Sometimes. I guess by dint […]

Straight out of the Kevin Gates video playbook: lounging on a bed in a white tee with a very sexy woman. Religious imagery. D-Boys. The forlorn stressed-out shot in which his world is going to crumble but you know he will triumph. He is Gates and he will not lose. I have been part of […]

There are two essential reasons why this post exists: the first is obviously Mystikal. Every time I write one of these posts, I feel a twinge of uneasiness considering Mystikal was convicted of an indefensible crime. It’s a little strange to write posts in all caps about OMG MYSTIKAL, but yo, listen to this man […]

With Young Scooter headed to the pen to play paddycake with his sound-a-like cellmate, Gucci, it seems only fitting to post “Strong.” Originally released late last year on Kevin Gates’ street album, In the Meantime, it’s been re-circulated among the blogs who posted about Kevin Gates before Atlantic said it was okay to post about […]

Do you know how official you have to be to get away with wearing a scarf on the South Side of Baton Rouge? I’m pretty sure Kevin Gates is the only one who has ever successfully pulled that off. The comparisons between Boosie and Gates are overblown, probably because the people making them have never […]

If you were wondering what the extra-musical high point of this video is, it’s at the 1:37 mark when the girl wears florescent lipstick with “Gates” written on her lower lip. Whatchu know about that, Hype Williams? Other things of note: neon lights are not normally a good place to find love (too unflattering of […]