Several years ago, I was half-convinced that 90s babies would never come close to rapping as well as 70s and 80s babies. At the time, Soulja Boy, Jibbs, and Mims seemed more like standard-bearers than an aberration brought on by industry turmoil, ring-tone rap’s rise, and a cyclical ebb. Jerkin’ produced a lot of songs […]

Weird to think that we’re already in a post-Earl Sweatshirt world. Chester Watson is 15 years old and St. Louis-raised, which means that he was 12 when Earl Sweatshirt was talking about jacking off to buffered videos of Asher Roth eating apple sauce. So I guess it’s not really not that bizarre that the teenager […]