I guess I really am more blogger than rapper these days. Snide comment aside, 2014 was a weird year for music. For every Black Messiah which dropped, we had a one-hit wonder make their way into the fray. Artists spoke out about Ferguson, and sometimes did more harm than good. Azealia Banks decided to go at everyone. […]
Read moreThe Interesting Case of Waka Flocka Flame
I’ll be the first to admit that, in 2010 or 2011, if you said that “in 2014, Waka Flocka Flame will have moments where he would be considered ‘lyrical,’” I would’ve laughed and went back to blaring the hell out of “Grove Street Party” or the Duflocka Rant mixtape. Then, Flocka was known as an artist […]
Read more@SpeedontheBeat – #BornSinner Freeverse
I don’t like to doing these, but I had to. Sorry Cole.
Read more"Let Nas Down" and the Absent Father
Editor’s Note: I’d like to apologize if this comes off as rambling in some points. I just wanted to speak on several issues.Now, I love hip-hop, and respect its “forefathers” and whatnot. So, this isn’t meant to be slanderous. But, “Let Nas Down” has got to be one of the saddest sappiest most-butthurt saddest songs in recent hip-hop […]
Read moreJ. Nolan, "Fortified MC"
(I submitted this review to another hip-hop blog earlier this week; might as well share the love with my viewers/readers over here, too.) Let me (re)introduce myself–I’m Speed on the Beat and I am a relatively unknown–but still pretty accomplished–rapper/music critic. I feel that that must be said to qualify what I’m going to tell […]
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