
It’s pretty hard not to compare a white guy rapping about heartbreak to Atmosphere. But let me try not being racist for a second. Anyway, this is solid. It’s heartbreak. It’s rap. It’s angry. There are guitars. You know what t...
Be on the lookout for this week’s edition of CityBeat, which comes out tomorrow. I wrote a story on Mitchy Slick that is like this song in the form of a feature profile. This is one of my favorite Mitchy songs because he gets his politically-ch...
Wrote this last week for SoundDiego. Can’t wait for Aki Khalaq & The Soul Prints. When super left-field experimental producers like Flying Lotus first started buzzing, they were marketing themselves as a “post-Dilla” movement,...
This is pandering to the side of me that listens to mid-90s indie stuff like Siah & Yeshua DaPoed. I’m guessing from the title that the instrumental is Dizzy Gillespie? Anyway, the video’s like a year old. This was from RJW’s J...
Respect to anyone who has enough courage to bleed on a track. I like how the beat, produced by DeeJay, fits so well. On the one hand, it emulates the drug-induced trance of Karma’s drank of choice. On the other, there’s this sadness or da...
Bam Circa 86 steps up the flow on a breezy but lavish beat that Currensy probably would’ve liked to have. He also gets in a good Naruto joke, though he shouldn’t be fronting on Naruto. There are some cool ass ninja fights to be had there.
I picked this up some months ago when I was up in LA for the Beat Swap Meet. Though funny enough, I didn’t pick it up from any vendor from LA but from DJ Inform, whose collection is pretty damn on-point. Anyway, I celebrate whenever I can grab...