Music
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 507 Recap: Dear Grandma
In case your soul wasn’t fully extinguished by the Seahawks’ loss this past Sunday, we spent our Groundhog Day watching our favorite E-list negroes continue to make the same poor decisions. We start off the episode in some grass-lined rooftop in Kingsbridge, where DJ Kay Slay is “working” with a new “artist” named Jhonni Blaze.…
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I Think Suge Knight Killed A Guy.
I’ve been plenty mad before in life. For instance, last night while watching Scandal, I felt myself saying “what in THE fuck?” is happening here and in my life way more than I intended to. Shonda Rhimes trolled the shit out of everybody last night. I needed a cigarette and had to listen to Rage…
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DC: 3 KINGS – Celebrating the Life and Music of Stevie, MJ, and Prince
THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 at LIV NIGHTCLUB in WASHINGTON, DC is 3 KINGS! It’s a dance party with some of the best songs and remixes featuring the music of iconic musicians Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Prince! Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door! TICKETS: www.3kingsdc.eventbrite.com 3 KINGS Friday, January 30 10p-3am…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 506 Recap: All My Baby Mamas
Happy Tuesday everybody. I write to you from the confines of my cozy Brooklyn apartment because meteorologists were about as accurate about snowfall as men who claim their height to be 5’9 – which means I was able to do a deep dive into our favorite stories. So, Amina had herself a beautiful baby boy…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 505 Recap: Half On A Baby
Happy Belated MLK Day everyone. I hope you guys capped off a weekend chock full of ill-advised party flyers with condemning Peter Gunz to the ninth circle of hell. And if your company didn’t give you the day off…well, they’re racist. We begin yesterday’s fairly mediocre episode with watching Peter Gunz get on the fast…
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Kendrick Lamar Said Something Dumb. Looks Like Rappers Are People, Too.
In a recent cover story for Billboard magazine, hip-hop wunderkind Kendrick Lamar spoke on Ferguson in comments that lit up the Blackosphere and caught the ire of self-imposed musical Civil Rights leader and idiot savant, Azealia Banks: “I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s f—-ked…
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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…