Virginia native No Face, Rapper released the follow-up to his Wintercoat EP from earlier in the year. Featuring the previously-released “No Grammys” and “Stranger Things,” the six-track Never Fear Rejection features a constant evolution for the artist. Taking the evolutionary energy of “No Grammys” and “Stranger Things” and stretching it across an entire project can be […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @IDK Introduces Us to Baby Scale on New Track (NOW WITH VIDEO)
The artist formerly known as Jay IDK continues his ascent as one act to watch. As others have said, the only thing that’s changed is the name. The bars are still there and the command over beats is still evident. “Baby Scale” is what happens when you let IDK (still gonna take some getting used to […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @seeshreve Shows Us Mommy Love To Dance on New EP
C.Shreve the Professor comes on a different vibe each track you catch him on. The college professor (and college football player in another life) gives us hard boombap on one track, then flips the proverbial script and gives us smoothed out conscious vibes the next. Such is the case on his newest release, the seven-track […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @ItsABlaccOut Pays Homage to @DMX
BlaccOut Garrison pulled this one out the bag and it’s a great homage to DMX. From the flow to the gritty realism within the bars, you can definitely see that BlaccOut’s trying to give Dark Man X those flowers while he can still smell them. Over a storytelling-ready, boombap-heavy beat from Brazilian producer Zonatreze that […]
Read moreNew (To Me) SOTBMusic: @iamKingLos Got The Glo in New Track
Wellp, this one is self-explanatory. Los gets on a theoretically “dumbed down” track and manages to elevate it past that level. The chorus is easily outshined by the verses, and those verses deliver some pretty sick punchlines–kind of like Bruce Leroy himself. Check it out below and remember to support dope music in all its […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: @SpeedontheBeat’s Baltimore Commercial Break
This August 17th marks the two-year anniversary of an album that I consider my favorite project to work on, even considering the background of it, Baltimore Commercial Break. Now, while I’ve talked a bit about the processes and the stories behind some of the tracks in passing, I’d like to take this time to really […]
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