| Rap Up for the Week of 9/25/15 | September 25, 2015 |
Paul Wall, Curren$y, & Devin the Dude, Big Grams feat. RTJ, Mick Jenkins responds to Vic Spencer, Isaiah Rashad, and more, it's the Rap Up!
| Summer Mixtape: Jimmy Ness | August 7, 2014 |
Jimmy Ness only fools with charcoal “Welcome to the land where it just don’t stop. Trunks pop, tops drop, and the front-end hop.” I like to imagine summer is a lot like the world Houston rapper Fat Pat [RIP] describes on “Tops Pop,” where the music is funky, the cars have impractical modifications and the […]
| Summer Mixtape: PremRock | July 24, 2014 |
Premrock is trying to one-up Joel Embiid’s Twitter feed. Photo by Gianna Leo Falcon. Chinatown will always hold a special place in my heart. Not the noir film set in LA but the one of a kind neighborhood in New York City. Summertime in Chinatown smells awful but if you want the best dumplings you […]
| Question in the Form of An Answer: An Interview With Devin the Dude | January 22, 2014 |
Harrison Samphir is an editor and writer living in Winnipeg, Canada. This is his first contribution to Passion of the Weiss. Pass him all your drugs. The dude with the spacey flow debuted with the Odd Squad on Fadanuf Fa Erybody!! Signed to Rap-A-Lot Records, Devin Copeland went solo to drop a handful of classics […]
| Devin the Dude On the Road | October 25, 2013 |
Jimmy Ness was the inspiration for Beldar. Devin The Dude is the kind of rapper you want to hang out with. He’s chilled out and usually rhymes about what he loves most: beautiful girls and the finest kush. The Dude never reached the same mainstream status as other O.G rappers during his 20+ year career, […]
| Devin the Dude and How to Write a Proper Weed Song | November 14, 2012 |
Max Bell roundly rejected prior restraint. You never have to ask Devin the Dude if he’s trying to smoke. The only reason you ask is so you can hear him croon “Ooo yeah” like he suddenly abandoned rap and started singing the stoner blues. You never have to question whether the man can drop a […]
