| It’s Just a Warning: Open Mike Eagle and Oddisee Offer Prayers For the American Religion | March 3, 2015 |
The best producer and best rapper on Mello Music Group form like Zoroaster.
| The Dream Shatterers: Migos Live | February 12, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams has a lower middle class timeline Disappointment’s a motherfucker. I’m dumb enough, ugly enough, and old enough to have experienced all the bitter, tropical flavors Disappointment comes in, particularly in regard to rap music. I bought Murs’ disastrous major label debut, Murs For President. I still have a shirt he autographed at Rock […]
| Don’t Step to These: Problem “Compton” | February 9, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams is four five seconds from getting an iced coffee It’s February 9 and it’s 75 degrees. It’s not quite hot enough in L.A. for the mid-summer tradition of shootouts on the freeway, but it’s gang banging weather nonetheless. It’s a windows-down day, and to celebrate, Salva’s officially released his latest collaboration with Problem, […]
| Legowelt “Cosmic Space” EP | February 6, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams will be back to earth in 21 years like Interstellar The last manned mission to the Moon was in 1972, but even 43 years and diminished NASA budgets haven’t dampened the belief that space, Mars and beyond, is the final frontier. Legowelt’s new EP, Cosmic Space, is a retro-futuristic glance at the cosmos; […]
| Origin of Species: Lil Wayne & Migos “Amazing Amy” | January 27, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams is the Rap Game Nick Dunne Who’s the King of The South? Very few rappers can lay serious claim to the title, but if between 2004 and 2009 you’d have said “Lil Wayne,” few would have batted an eyelash. The dreadlocked goblin capitalized on incredibly fallow years in rap music with a non-stop […]
Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death reunite for the album that Seahawks should be pre-gaming to.
| Hoodie & Timbo Music From Houston: Slihmm “I Can’t Rap About Love” | January 16, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams has a PO Box in Broad City Inherent to “discovering” new rappers is to confront fear. It’s the fear that the next song you click will be so thoroughly backpacky that your appropriately-sized sweater is going to turn into a XXXL Triple 5 Soul hoodie, that everything in your iTunes will transform into […]
Torii MacAdams only drinks the galaxy’s finest malt liquors Who’s the anonymous man in a coat made of Opium den curtains, with leather-clad digits gripping a talk box? Very privately, a special education teacher, who, after the collapse of his reasonably successful band, was told to pursue his budding interest in outerspace music by friend/en […]
| When Keeping It Real Goes Right: Waka Flocka “5:56” | January 12, 2015 |
Torii MacAdams is always up in a Benzito You always knew when Waka Flocka on a song because he’d tell you by shouting a distinct, gravely “FLOCKA!” The dread-locked Flocka, along with mushed-mouthed, sometimes-friend Gucci Mane and the indefinitely smoked out producer Lex Luger, set the hyper-violent tone for much of rap in the late […]
| Numero Uno: Universal Togetherness Band “More Than Enough” | January 8, 2015 |
“Awe sookie sookie!” screamed Torii MacAdams Every year seems to bring a long list of reissues– particularly around Record Store Day– many of which are completely inessential money grabs perpetrated by multinational corporations. Shout out to everyone who bought the Jay-Z & Linkin Park album on “special edition blue vinyl.” For fans of legitimate obscurities, […]
