The best for-one’s-car rap mixtape of 2010 since Yelawolf’s “Trunk Muzik” is Starlito’s “Renaissance Gangster.” Having played out the former, I’m making the not-so-difficult transition from Alabama to ...
Cardi B, the Instagram celebrity and breakout star of Love & Hip Hop: New York, has just dropped the second installment of her Gangsta Bitch Music series. The production has improved and Cardi sounds ...
As the initial buzz fom Jay-z’s American Gangster album subsided, Hov, like he did previously for the Black Album released an a capella version of the album. Back then, a host of producers rose to the ...
There’s something like a renaissance, we’ve been told, in Los Angeles hip-hop right now. The success of good kid, m.A.A.d. city sparked renewed interest in hip-hop’s second-oldest metropolis.
“This is black superhero music,” Jay-Z proclaims in his excellent new “Roc Boys.” That means live horns, grooving on some kind of Afro-beat riff over Seventies rumble-in-the-jungle funk, while Jay-Z ...
On the January morning in 2015 when he turned himself in to police in West Hollywood for his role in a deadly hit-and-run, gangster rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was oozing Teflon confidence. As ...