SpeedontheBeat.com is all about presenting real feelings about “real music.” That, and letting people see people, not personas. With that said, I recently got a text from Julie Stevens, a fellow writer who’s featured on SOTB a few times before, that said “I’ve got a piece for you.” Little did I know that this piece […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @Wifisfuneral is The Boy Who Cried Wolf in New Mixtape
I don’t know if I should like this project, but I do. The reasoning why I’m on the fence about this is simply that whole “oh, Wifisfuneral is part of the ‘new wave’ of Soundcloud” and I’m supposed to not really rock with that era because “oh, I love bars and kids not rapping about […]
Read moreNew (To Me) SOTBMusic: @ChancetheRapper and @YoungThug Introduce Us to Big B’s
This one isn’t either Thug’s or Chance’s best work, but it’s catchy enough. That’s got to be good for something, right? Jokes aside, I’m not a big fan of the production on it, as it sounds…well, it sounds very “Soundcloud-like.” That’s to say that it has moments of dopeness, but it also feels like everything […]
Read more(Lady) Jinxxx – "WorldStar" feat. Melony Amirah
A bit of backstory. I’ve known Jinxxx for about ten years or so now. We met through some random AOL chatroom back when those were a thing. Right off the bat, it seemed, we started talking about music et al. She was one of the first Baltimore heads that featured me on a track, although […]
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