DC-based artist Joe Young hit my DMs with this track featuring Shi and Rapper Big Pooh (pretty big feature, by the way). It’s a smooth track reminiscent of those early Maybach Music productions. Perfect yacht life music, with just a tinge of darkness. The Lexi Banks-produced song features the trio speaking on the realities of […]
Read moreJay Z Never Sold Out: Agree or Disagree?
Charlamagne Tha God, in a recent interview with Montreality, said that Jay Z is the only rapper-turned-businessman who didn’t sell his soul or sell out. Now, I get where Charlamagne is coming from. Jay, for the most part, never really got involved in petty foolishness (aside from his “beef” with, like, Game, his stuff with […]
Read more@TrueGodImmortal Talks Lianne La Havas
There are times when you hear an artist and you instantly gravitate to them. That doesn’t happen TOO often for me honestly, but when it does, it is something special. Today, I wanted to talk about one of the more recent instances where this happened. Let me just say this: I don’t usually find myself […]
Read more@TrueGodImmortal talks Jesse Williams, Justin Timberlake and Blackness
SpeedontheBeat.com guest contributor True God shares his thoughts about the Jesse Williams speech at this year’s BET Awards, the fallout from it, the fallout from Justin Timberlake’s retort/approval of the message, and more in this Op-Ed. The thoughts expressed do not necessarily represent the views of Speed on the Beat or SpeedontheBeat.com. However, I damn […]
Read moreNew Music: @ItsLeeMitty – Any Day Now
Baltimore’s own Lee Mitty drops a pretty timely release in Any Day Now. A 15-track album featuring “Muses,” “Bang,” and “Leave Me Alone,” the album gives us some pretty high highs and lower-than-low lows, playing off the album cover’s duality of temptation (it’s not just about the “negative” vices). Mitty is stuck between wanting to […]
Read moreNew Music: @BossmanBmore – Summer 16 Freestyle
Now, many of you may not know this. But, back when Bossman first dropped with, like, N.E.K. and shit, I was like “oh damn. This man is going places.” I’ve followed dude since the days of Law & Order, “I Did It” and “OH!” Classic Baltimore hip-hop shit that still gets some burn in my collections […]
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