I’ve always been a sucker for Willie Hutch. The man was a genius and such an underrated talent. One of my favorite tracks of his is “Mack’s Stroll,” from The Mack OST. It’s just the epitome of funk, of pimping, of everything right with music from the 70s (and, possibly, wrong with society). It helped make one […]
Read moreSpeed on the Beat Reviews: @Drake’s Views
“Is it Drake’s magnum opus?” “It it the mansplaining version of Lemonade?” “Is it really trash that people hyping up because it’s Drake?” “Is it just trash overall? Where’s Kendrick’s new album?” These are all questions I’ve seen over the past few days since Drake’s Views (f/k/a Views from the 6) dropped. And while I like […]
Read moreStream @WeAreDeLaSoul’s New EP For Your Pain & Suffering
Wellp, somebody had to drop something against Views and I’m glad it was De La Soul. But, seriously, this four-track EP is greatness and reminds us that De La Soul never really left. If you need new music in your life that isn’t Views (either because you’ve played it ten times since it dropped, you just want some […]
Read moreNew (To Me) Music: @lorenzoraps – Social Colour
19-year old Lorenzo Moore (pictured above), better known as The Renaissance, dropped this tape last year. A college student who’s dropping some dopeness (I can relate, so disclosure: I’m slightly biased towards feeling the energy because of this), The Renaissance’s Social Colour tape feels like some new-school jazz-rap mixed in with “the old Kanye” and a bit […]
Read moreNew Music: @seefrvncis – "All I Ever Wanted" (feat. @MisterRado)
see.francis returns with some newness. This Osym-produced track, featuring Rado, is a nice jazzy track (kinda in an early Tribe-meets-TPAB Kendrick vibe) that gives us a theme that anyone can relate to: just chilling, getting the necessary praise for your greatness, and so on. I mean, who among us hasn’t just wanted to end the BS and […]
Read moreNew Music: @WhosZed x @FreddieGibbs – "Back Home"
Zeds Dead plus Freddie Gibbs. It’s a pretty dope collaboration. Seemingly released to coincide with Zeds Dead’s official announcement of their Deadbeats label, it’s airy, moody, lyrical and catchy–at the same damn time. I’ll shut up and let you listen.
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