On Friday, SpeedontheBeat.com featured part one of our first Music Roundtable. This discussion focused on the writers and curators themselves, with a few tips about the business (especially with regards to submissions and approaching people who could “put you on”). If you haven’t checked it out, please do so post-haste (here’s the link again). Today, […]
Read moreSpeedontheBeat.com Music Roundtable: Volume One, Part One
In late 2014, I came to the realization that, while helpful, my “Dear Rap [People]” posts were limiting (mainly because it was only my thoughts/opinions/truths). So, I reached out to cook up something awesome. I hope to have/”host” more roundtables to help educate people on how to approach writers, music, A&R’s and so on. Also, I […]
Read moreNas – "Who Killed It" in Retrospect (Or "The One Where Nas Loses")
Ok, so if you’ve checked out my post on Thee Arteest, you’ll know that today, I spoke on the “Nas Lost” phenomenon. Now, I’d like to take it a step further and dissect a song that several bloggers/critics/people in general, including my Baltimore Hip-Hop Blogger brethren Al Shipley consider to be one of Nas’s worst […]
Read moreThe Reason for No-Fi and the "Speed Flow", Part Two (Updated 6/27/14)
Title art for the song, “Kings.” The song is intentionallyedited, for reasons that are spoke on a bit here. Last year, a bit after I originally dropped #RR, I wrote a post detailing what I did in regards to my production, and why I did so (in other words, “the reasons for being the ‘No-Fi […]
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