Kendrick Lamar is Filling the Outkast Void
The opening track to Kendrick Lamar's newest album To Pimp a Butterfly has multiple hallmarks of a classic West Coast hip-hop production. Backing vocals...
Drake’s ‘Views From the 6’ Album Cover Art
Over the weekend, in between watching Purple Rain 8 times in a row, downloading unreleased Prince song after unreleased Prince song, and watching Under...
“GALLO NEGRO” Music Video – Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas
I'm still on Lesson 1 of Disc 1 of my Rosetta Stone - Espanol, but I've learned enough Spanish to know that "Gallo Negro"...
Michael Kiwanuka – “Black Man in a White World”
What starts off as a sparse folk blues song of sorrow gradually grows into a soulful R&B callback to the classic sound of the 60's and 70's....
“Battle Anybody I Don’t Care Who You Tell” – Why LL...
The popularity of battle rap is so high at present that it's become an unofficial sub-genre of hip-hop. While no one has made a...
R.I.P. PRINCE – 1958 – 2016
2016 is trying its damnedest to be the year the music died. First David Bowie, now Prince Rogers Nelson at 57-years-old. Inventive, incredibly talented,...
Drake’s ‘Views From the 6’ Gets a Release Date
2015 proved to be a very notable year for Drake despite not having an actual album release to go along with it. In February,...