When you combine the life of a young Chinese-American man with dope lines and heavy West Coast-friendly instrumentals, you’ll probably get something along the lines of Bay Area artist Chow Mane’s debut, the Mooncakes EP. If not, you probably did something wrong in the mix. Cooking lessons aside, this is a pretty legitimate project as it […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @ItsABlaccOut Deals with Paint Water with @MalarieHoward and @CarpeDi_
Blaccout Garrison returns to SOTBMusic with a jazzy hip-hop track that deals with the ups and downs of life and how art helps us all get through it. We’re given a few different looks at how, even when we’re “stuck inside [the] paint water,” we can get our positive energy up. The Emani-produced track helps […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @_DonMykel is Infinite on New EP
I just got this one in my inbox (h/t to the AllTheBestMedia team, by the way). All I’ve got to say is this: if you want bars and deepness with those bars, this is a project you should check out. Don has the tools to back up claims made by folks over at DJBooth and […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @Fadlsmusic Drops Roli for Your Viewing Pleasure
DJ Khaled affiliate Fadl recently released the visuals to his new track “Roli.” It’s one that finds the rapper getting proper for a video shoot and floating over the syrupy instrumental. The song is pretty catchy and will have you humming along because of that. If you’re in the mood for a moody but enticing […]
Read moreSOTBMusic: Why @LilTunechi’s Tha Carter II Was The End of Wayne’s Time as a Rapper’s Rapper
When music hits you, as Bob Marley said, you feel no pain. That is the way I feel when I first heard Tha Carter II. I’ve spoke on this album before, but I figured I’d revisit it. While not a perfect album, Lil’ Wayne’s second entry in his Carter series was one of the first […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @BrainRapp Says to Protect Your Neck on New Track
As mentioned in my piece on Brain’s “Roller Coaster,” he’s been on a different vibe for this project. Keeping the bars dope, Brain flows over a track that offers some cautionary advice to those in his way. “Protect Your Neck” is held together by a brass-and-harp-heavy production from Steven Padilla, which allows the DMV native […]
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