Ok, horrible album cover art and pseudo-spoken word aside, I can tolerate Wale quite a bit when he actually raps about something of substance. I have Paint a Picture still on my iPod and More About Nothing was one of my favorite tapes of all-time. Sadly, these days, that comes less often than not. I mean, between […]
Read moreBork Laser and the Sunshine Band (or "How The Weeknd [Potentially] Ruined Contemporary R&B")
Let me start out by saying that I didn’t start out as a Weeknd fan. Are they called Weeknders? Is that a thing? If a “Weeknder” is a thing,is it also created by Disney? Anyway, due to some suggestions from high school acquaintance (and social revolutionary) Nick Brady, the homie Drizzle and, ironically enough, Dezeray, I gave The […]
Read moreJ. Nolan, "Fortified MC"
(I submitted this review to another hip-hop blog earlier this week; might as well share the love with my viewers/readers over here, too.) Let me (re)introduce myself–I’m Speed on the Beat and I am a relatively unknown–but still pretty accomplished–rapper/music critic. I feel that that must be said to qualify what I’m going to tell […]
Read moreDear Internet Rappers, Part Three (or "Why I Can Tell You This")
Always great to start a post off with candy. As long as it’s not nose candy. That’s bad. Anyhow (I know, it’s hard to take your eyes of Naya Rivera and put them back here), let us begin. I apologize in advance about the potential tone of this letter. I’m not trying to bitch, but […]
Read moreThis is the Return (AKA "The First Step to Goodbye")
Greetings. If you’ve taken a look over here today, you’d have noticed that “Speed on the Beat Presents” is now officially SpeedontheBeat.com. What that means is simply that this is the first step in the “Serious Speed Initiative” aka the “Twenty-Seven Club Complex.” For those who don’t know, a lot of musicians have died during […]
Read moreWelcome to The Second Coming
Welcome to the new beginning. SpeedontheBeat.com That is all. -SOTB
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