Recent Adds is the now yearly series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records have been added to the playlists recently. The idea is that it will help shine some light ...
DJ Diamond Kuts – Live On Power 99 04/07/2012 (Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4) In my review of the new Nicki Minaj album I made an aside about how “Stupid Hoe” producer and Philadelphia DJ ...
Today is a day! It might even be the day. The greatest day in all of hip hop, even. The one in which XXL Magazine and Diet Mountain Dew announce their esteemed annual Freshman cover, highlighting som...
Metro Zu – “Sell Ma Hoe“ from MINK RUG (Mixtape, 2012) Metro Zu is a Miami crew that is loosely affiliated with SpaceGhostPurrp, or at least have a song with him. They are hyper-pro...
Schoolboy Q – “NiggaHs.Already.Know.Da vers.Flow“ from Habits & Contradictions (Top Dawg, 2012) The 2012 “Cre-A-Tine.”[1] But for all the endless knowing that’...
Damn things are getting real with the net as ever before. If you haven’t yet noticed Megaupload, the greatest and least ad-ridden file hosting site has been seized by the powers that be. This i...
#flex 1. Waka Flocka Flame f/ Kebo Gotti – “Grove St. Party” (Prod. by Lex Luger) 2. Waka Flocka Flame f/ Gucci Mane, Wooh Da Kid, Slim Dunkin & Frenchie – “2 Deep&...
It’s the end of the year again and at the end of the year we make lists. So here is a list of rap songs that either mattered or should have mattered in 2011. It was a confusing year for rap. Wh...
Recent Adds is the series where we check terrestrial radio charts to see what independent records have been added to the playlists recently. The idea is that it will help shine some light on semi-sig...
If you haven’t yet noticed, most of my day-to-day hulkshare coverage has been taking place over at Tumblin’ Erb. Still sometimes things get backlogged and that’s when the old New Ra...
Lil B f/ Phonte & Jean Grae – “Base For Your Face” (Internet, 2011) Produced by 9th Wonder. So this happened. Musically the track is exactly what you would expect. Pretty good,...
Popular rap magazine XXL made a list of rappers again this year. They’re supposed to be famous by next year. A few of them will be, but mostly because they’re already famous today. They r...
Late last year Dan Charnas released his gigantic history of hip hop business The Big Payback. Shortly thereafter I read it. I took a ton of notes in the process and I’m just now getting around ...
Roach Gigz is a talented young rapper from San Francisco. His two installment underground series Roachy Balboa is out now. I recently talked to him about rap music for the latest installment of CB...
Jonny Paycheck – Cities Of Dope (Mixtape, 2011) Our BART representative Jonny Paycheck just sent over this mix of cross-genre Bay Rapps. It’s a nice complement to Will Staley’s rece...
Wiz Khalifa – “Big Screen“ from Rolling Papers (Atlantic, March 29th) “Black & Yellow” blew up by placing regular rapping on top of a pop beat, but for “Big S...
Wiz Khalifa – “Black & Yellow” (Atlantic/Rostrum, 2010) Yes, we’re nearly one month into the next year but I’m still stuck on the other one. I spent the last quarte...
If you missed Part 1 of the Danny Brown interview, check it now. So going back to your timeline, how do you jump from the Bay to Rawkus? That was just my hip hop timeline. My pops he trained me not t...
Tuck fumblr. I’m back. Killer Mike – “Burn“ from PL3DGE (Grand Hustle, Coming Soon) Killer Mike is rapping over Funkadelic. Not Mothership Slap Bass Funkadelic, but painful ps...
DR PHIL! 1. Lil B – “Wonton Soup” 2. Lil B – “Look Like Jesus” 3. Lil B – “Like A Martian” 4. Lil B – “Birth Of Rap” 5. Lil B &...
Here are some recentish rap songs that I wanted to write words about but forgot to put on the tumblr. Soulja Boy – “First Day Of School“ from The Deandre Way (Interscope, 2010) What...
My Head Hurts. I say this every year but this has been the hardest year end singles list I’ve ever had to compile. I mean the shit is. Fucking. Ridiculous. Young people are making great music, ...
It’s been a long time… I’ve been pretty lax about posting new rap music on the Tumblr lately, so I figured I’d make up for the lapse by bringing the old New Rap Music column b...
Yelawolf is a very talented rapper from Alabama. Rather than ask him to tell his story again, I recently talked to him about his taste and influences in rap music for the first installment in a new s...
I don’t get DJ Screw. I mean, I greatly appreciate his music, but I’ll never fully understand it. How could I? When he passed away I had only just heard of him and his movement, having ha...
In AIM conversation with Kris Ex. Exo: grand statement alert: Exo: Kanye’s most emblematic quality has been his willingness to speak ego to power. that’s sorely missed by me on MBDTF. Noz...
It’s been a while since we’ve brought the Posse back but in light of Kanye’s recent leak out/freak out I decided to revisit this short post about my years as a teenage bootlegger an...
Apologies for the delay with the Pac series. There is really an overwhelming amount of information about this guy and I’ve been learning to swim in the deep end. But here we are back at the beg...
The internet has already moved on but I’ve been meaning to write something about “Monster,” the first in Kanye’s weekly G.o.o.d. Friday series. It has a bunch of famous rapper...
We a faculty. And I’m the team leader For those who haven’t been paying attention to the internet, Lil B’s New York debut last weekend was an unquestionable success. This was a slig...
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