You’ve got to forgive me for potentially “leaking” a song. I am truly sorry, and I implore that everyone who rocks with this goes out and cops Beauty Behind the Madness when it drops next week. However, this song is fucking beautiful (no, not that type of beautiful). The production, it’s like some mix between “Runaway” […]
Read more#300WordsorLess Review – @1Future: #DS2
Newly-single Future returns with Dirty Sprite 2, a full-length sequel to his 2011 mixtape. Instead of going completely cuckoo bananas with the feels, Future dranks, sexes, and hustles his problems away over an eighteen-song collection. And, I’ve got to say: I’m pleasantly surprised (something that’s happened a lot recently with Future’s work). Shutterstock “controversy” aside, […]
Read moreHas The Weeknd Gone "Pop?"
Now, that’s what you call clickbait. In the past couple weeks, we’ve gotten two new Weeknd tracks. One, “The Hills,” is dark, haunting, atmospheric, drug-addled “fuck deez hoes” amazement. The accompanying video is a clusterbomb of imagery, fueled (no pun intended) by a car catching on fire and Weeknd walking away, all Sephiroth-into-the-fire style, but in […]
Read moreBork Laser and the Sunshine Band (or "How The Weeknd [Potentially] Ruined Contemporary R&B")
Let me start out by saying that I didn’t start out as a Weeknd fan. Are they called Weeknders? Is that a thing? If a “Weeknder” is a thing,is it also created by Disney? Anyway, due to some suggestions from high school acquaintance (and social revolutionary) Nick Brady, the homie Drizzle and, ironically enough, Dezeray, I gave The […]
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