Armed with reflective verses and imagery, Jay Wyse asks us to remember, among other things, that dreams come true while archival footage of Tupac flicker in the background. That’s the main backdrop of the Baltimore native’s new Nine Twenty Five visuals. Its simplistic approach works as listeners are bound to intake his words that much […]
Read moreNew (to Me) Music: @beltwayboog feat. Shi and @RapperBigPooh – "Your Hustle"
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 more#300WordsorLess Review: Money Mark of @TeamMoMoneyENT – #Back2TheLabVol3
I love when artists seemingly sound out of place in today’s music scene, but still manage to carve their own niche and path within it. DMV artist Money Mark’s #Back2TheLabVol3 is a project that’s part middle-school (read: early 2000s) hip-hop with its Dipset-era boisterousness on production, part-“real rap,” and 100% honest. The twenty-track project (including skits, […]
Read moreA Q&A with @OmeoMusic
Today, I got the chance to conduct a patented SOTB!!! Q&A with an artist out of Virginia. #DMVBusiness, #DARBusiness, and all of those awesome bits for sure. But, pleasantries aside, college student by day artist Omeo was gracious enough to answer some questions about his music, his plans, racial tension, his beginnings, and the Snapchat…err…love […]
Read moreSpeed on the Beat Interviews: Jay IDK
Speed on the Beat here (obviously), back with another interview. In the midst of #DeathoftheKing Week and #TeamDARWeek, I was able to speak with an artist who I’ve featured on this blog and others quite a bit, Jay IDK. But, you didn’t come here to hear me ramble (unless you did, which in that case? […]
Read more"Dreaming (The Breakthrough)"
While I’ve gone into (a ton of) detail on RapGenius about this track, I’ll still post it here. It’s one of my most-intricate, story-driven and honest track. Death of The King will be a lot of this–honesty and real-life music.
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