Brain Rapp’s captioned the release of his video “Light” with the phrase “the biggest middle finger is a smile.” That definitely plays into the energy exuded from the track and its parent project, Bloom, due out next week. While talking to Brain about the release, I made mention that the entire thing has a lot […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Scream Geronimo Is Exercising His "2ND AMNDMNT" Rights
Scream Geronimo hit my line to talk about his latest track. He was humble and polite, citing that NoFace told him to hit me up. I was familiar with Geronimo’s music a bit through his work with 9GN, so I was like “of course.” I began playing the track, “2ND AMNDMNT,” and was blown away […]
Read moreNew (To Me) SOTBMusic: DMV Artist Recipe4Winning Discusses His Plight on Underrated
A few days ago, I received an email about DMV artist Recipe4Winning and his late-2018 project, Underrated. Being a guy who loves new music, I gave the project a listen. I mean, it was hyped up to the point that I’d feel like I deprived myself if I didn’t give it an honest listen. Recipe has […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: NishoSoul Offers Deliverance in New Visuals
NishoSoul promised us, in his January interview with me, that this year would see a lot more movement from him on the music front. With the…delivery (had to) of his latest visuals, “Deliverance,” he’s more than keeping his end of the deal. While “Deliverance” itself has been making its way through the airwaves for a few […]
Read moreSOTBMusic: A Discussion on Son of the Beast
It’s been three months since Son of the Beast and I realize that I haven’t done an official “look into the process” piece for it. Part of that is timing (the album released around the time of some personal upheaval, as discussed in my talk with True and Apollo a few weeks ago), part of […]
Read moreSOTBMusic: NoFace, Rapper Reintroduces the World to NFR
We’ve got some new music from NoFace, Rapper and it’s pretty solid. A track that “celebrates [self],” “NFR” is bombastic and abrasive while still being reflective of what we’ve come to expect from the NOVA artist. There’s been a bit of controversy on IG surrounding the beat, since another artist app[apparently did a track over it. […]
Read moreSOTBMusic: Catching Up with Shokus Apollo
Continuing with the interview energy SpeedontheBeat.com has had since the calendar turned over to 2019, I decided to link back up with Shokus Apollo to talk about his music and his life. Apollo has always been one of those artists who’s very laid back, but still lyrically sound. He doesn’t stress about the perplexities of […]
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