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Album Review: Ka – Grief Pedigree
“Cold loaded, waiting for a reason/praise me when I’m dead, make bread while I’m breathin’/Can’t take it when I’m leaving/Judge me too quick, mistake me as a heathen/cause I had tools moved weight it...
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Album Review: ScHoolboy Q – Habits and Contradictions
If Kendrick Lamar is the natural evolution of Ras Kass, then Schoolboy Q is somewhere between Kurupt, WC, and Crooked I on one end of the spectrum, and Micah 9 and Pharoahe Monch on the other, with the...
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Album Review: Lil Ugly Mane – Mista Thug Isolation
Mista Thug Isolation’s first track begins with the white noise and ringing of a bad bout of tenitus, and quickly developes into extraterrestrial feedback behind a ghoulish piano loop – something like...
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Album Review: Nacho Picasso / Blue Sky Black Death – Lord of The Fly
“Phantom of the Opera” The production duo known as Blue Sky Black Death (BSBD) has been a mainstay on the independent hip hop scene for over half a decade now. While they’ve certainly worked with...
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Album Review: Big K.R.I.T. – 4Eva N a Day
There will seemingly always be a market for legitimate Country Rap Tunes, but as that musical methodology has fallen further and further from vogue – as the rap production selected by southern artists...
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The Making of Grief Pedigree
In hip hop we generally think of rappers approaching their forties as being removed from the hood, running out of subject matter and too distanced from their youth to connect to the things and subject...
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Album Review: Tree – Sunday School
Sometimes when an artist does something dramatically original it polarizes the listening populace, some shy away from it, because it shocks their senses and their understanding of the confines of their...
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