Whether you like the album or you don't, the Atlanta trapper's major label debut is a generational touchstone. Abe Beame explains why.
Young Thug makes everything better, including Chris Brown's "Wrist."
| The Year in Rap: 2015 | December 10, 2015 |
From Vince Staples to Tyga to Eminem finally playing catch with his dad, Drew Millard breaks down rap in 2015
Can you pass out demos at a funeral home?
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: Vote on the Sweet 16 | April 28, 2015 |
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If Old Man Jeezy was hoping to rejuvenate his career, his new LP is unlikely to provide much of a spark to that cause.
| MobbDeen: War Games — The Bland Reunion of Rawse & Jeezy | February 11, 2014 |
Deen didn’t want to write this, but he had to. Ain’t this some anticlimactic shit? This might be the first reconciliation track between two previously “beefing” rappers that was simultaneously anticipated and unanticipated, if that makes any sense. I knew I was going to write this shit when Rawse tweeted the picture of him and […]
Deen is higher than a pelican. I didn’t fuck with Jeezy’s music until he dropped The Recession back in 2008. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. It was really when “3AM” dropped that I was willing to allow that Jeezy was more than mere adlibs or that maybe being that mere adlibs wasn’t the worst thing […]
| The “Gold On My Watch” Remix, (Almost) Trinidad James-Free Version | February 27, 2013 |
Has this ever happened in rap history? Has there ever been a remix to a major hit single where they dry-erased all verses from the original rapper himself? Is this merely a sign of defeat? An acknowledgement that Trinidad James would get “1 Trained” alongside Tip, Jeezy and Tity? Or this just a ploy to […]
| MobbDeen: Gangbanging 101 with Cap 1, Young Jeezy & Game… | January 10, 2013 |
Deen is having his wisdom teeth removed. Pay Pay the man some money for morphine. Believe me when I tell you that the most interesting thing about 2Chainz’s T.R.U.Realigion mixtape was Cap.1 one’s appearance on “Turn Up.” I’m serious. When that tape dropped in Winter 2011, I was deep in the throes of confusion with […]
