hip-hop
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Complex’s “Best of” Lists Are Garbage
The media company never seems to get their rankings right…I wonder why…
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The Hip-Hop Dalmatians Are the Greatest Rap Group That Never Was. Probably. Maybe.
As far as late-’90s and early-2000s black cinema goes, Brown Sugar is probably my favorite movie. The Wood is as close a second as you can get, much in the way thatReasonable Doubt is my favorite Jay Z album but I can listen to The Blueprint all day every day. In fact, The Wood is…
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Dear VH1, The Breaks Was Dope, But You Played Me.
Last night, VH1 finally premiered The Breaks, a “movie” they’ve been promoting for the better part of the past two months. Why did I put “movie” in quotes? I’ll tell you why. It’s because VH1 is rude as fuck and played my life, b. Let’s start at the beginning: The Breaks is a “movie” based…
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I'm Going To Have A Daughter. I Love Rap Music. These Two Things Do Not Match
They said I can’t rap about being broke no moreThey ain’t say I can’t rap about coke no more The Wife Person and I have driven to the D.C. area four times this summer. And, with each drive comes a couple dozen or so new additions to my Spotify playlist; a trip soundtrack occasionally interrupted by Google…
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Did Warren G. Get Robbed By His Homies On "Regulate"?
I was perusing the rap blogs and came across a new song by Warren G. featuring Nate Dogg called “My House”, which is presumably on his new album Regulate…The G-Funk Era 2. As you’d expect, the song is trash, but you weren’t ever going to listen to it anyway as you’ve probably not listened to anything…
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I Just Was Not That Into Rap Music…Until I Heard The College Dropout
This is an embarrassing thing to admit, but the first rap album I ever owned was Beware of Dog by Lil’ Bow Wow. In my defense, I was young and that “Puppy Love” video was lit. But I still cringe thinking about it — my early insistence that Shad Moss was the GOAT — especially…
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Logic, Kendrick Lamar, and the Frustration of Derivative Artistry
At first listen, Logic’s major label debut album Under Pressure is brilliant. It’s listenable. It’s well-produced. He’s a very, very gifted lyricist. He even managed to weave his album together with a voice over reminiscent of one of my favorite albums of all time, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders. But while I listened to…