Way back in 2010, the Long Island rapper Roc Marciano released his self-produced album Marcberg and essentially invented a new subgenre of underground rap. That subgenre doesn’t really have a name, but you can hear echoes of Roc Marci’s bleak, meditative beats and whispered, intricately worded goon-talk in virtually all of the smoky boom-bap that’s […]
Stream Filth Is Eternal’s Merciless New Album Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal
Earlier this year, the ferocious and bloody-minded Seattle hardcore band Fucked And Bound announced a name change. It’s hard to imagine a band name as nasty and memorable as Fucked And Bound, but the band found one that’s at least in the same zone: They would now be known as Filth Is Eternal. Along with […]
Joey Purp – “Candypaint”
Three years is a long time in rap, but we won’t have to wait too much longer to hear the fired-up Chicago rapper Joey Purp’s follow-up to his 2018 album QUARTERTHING. Next month, Purp will release UpLate, a new mixtape that promises to embrace the homegrown Chicago sound of house music. We’ve already heard the […]
Stream Westside Gunn’s New Mixtape Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf
What is Westside Gunn’s whole thing with Hitler? Gunn has built a whole reputation on being a sort of artistically refined street-rapper, as someone who can transition comfortably from the block to the balcony, and yet he continues to play around with Hitler’s name as if that’s just some kind of transgressive luxury good. It’s […]
Courtney Barnett – “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (The Velvet Underground Cover)
Courtney Barnett is in the middle of rolling out her own new album Things Take Time, Take Time — perhaps you’ve heard its great singles “Rae Street” and “Before You Gotta Go” — but her new song today is not on that album. Instead, Barnett is back with her contribution to the all-star The Velvet […]
Ray Vaughn L.A. Leakers Freestyle
Hot off his Peer Pressure EP, TDE’s latest recruit Ray Vaughn showcased his talents during Power 106’s L.A. Leakers’ Lift Off show. For nearly 8 minutes, the Long Beach rapper brought his pen game over Snoop Dogg, Tha Eastsidaz, Butch Cassidy, Master P, and Nate Dogg’s “Lay Low” as well as Beanie Sigel’s “Feel It […]
Video: Outkast “Two Dope Boyz”
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Outkast’s sophomore album, ATLiens, Big Boi and Andre 300o revisit the classic with its deluxe. Along with the re-release, comes an animated visual of one of the many standouts “Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac)”, directed by Rafatoon. The expanded deluxe will be remastered, mixed in Hi-Res 24bit sound […]
Russ “Can’t Let It Go”
Russ holds on to love on his latest release, “Can’t Let It Go”. Off the heels of last week’s, “ThinkTooMuch“, Russ vents on the highs and lows of a relationship and does whatever it takes to hang on.
Eric Bellinger Ft. Sevyn Streeter “What About Us”
Eric Bellinger and Sevyn Street turn up the heat on their new collaboration, “What About Us”. For their bedroom banger, Eric B serenades his lover with his raunchy requests, while Sevyn abids with no questions asks.
Halsey Discusses Their Nine Inch Nails Collaborative Album: “I Was Like, Please Make Weird Choices”
Halsey’s new album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power is out now. The pop star worked on it with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and in our Premature Evaluation review we wrote that it’s “a collaboration that should please Halsey fans and Nine Inch Nails fans alike.” Halsey sat down […]