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 […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @TheCouny Might Battle Wu-Tang in New Single
The Couny continue to switch up their style on each track. From a flip of the Sister, Sister theme to a booming All That tribute, we can expect a different sound each time The Couny hops on a track. This time, we get a bass-heavy anthem track that further introduces the “hip-hop sitcom network’s” Kenan and Kel. The […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @TheCouny Tell Creepers to Go Home (Roger) on "Sister Sister"
Charlie and Sleezy channel their inner soul singer (read: more like Andre 3000 on “Hey Ya” than John Legend on “Ordinary People”) on this new 90s-embracing track. What you won’t do to these fellows is call their momma about some stupid shit. Those are simple rules to live by, yes? If not, then you must […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @K1NGELJAY and @TheOnlyDGut Dance Like No One’s Watching in New Visuals
I can’t really speak much on the origin of the collaboration between D-Gut and K1NG ELJAY; I’ll leave that to you to read on Joe Hova’s site. But what I do know is this: the nostalgia gods shone brightly on this one. From the feel-good energy, to the iPod-esque imagery, down to the sample used (Funkadelic’s […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @Fairplay_2333 Watches out for FEDS in New EP
Hats off to Julie Stevens of FlowsforDays.com for sending this one to my inbox. The thing that got me into this one was the sample of Alessia Cara‘s “Here” producer LawBeatz flipped. He took that track and turned it into this menacing flip where Fairplay bears his soul in some ways while keeping his edge in […]
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