| Ready When You Are: The Travis Porter Reign Continues | January 25, 2016 |
Drew Millard tells you why you should be listening to more Travis Porter.
| David Bowie Tribute: The Time That Bowie Broke the Internet | January 14, 2016 |
Passion of the Weiss takes the week to celebrate the life and mourn the death of David Bowie.
| Photos From the First Annual POW Fest, Labor Day 2015 | September 16, 2015 |
The photos were taken by Forest Casey at The Echo, during a day and night festival that changed the course of space, time, and rap music. Oh, and celebrated 10 years as a website.
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: The Hateful 8 | April 30, 2015 |
Voting for the Final 4 closes Friday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| You Can’t Stop the Rain: Boosie Drops his New Single | March 27, 2015 |
Back with another haunted meditation on incarceration and graves, Boosie is in rare form.
| Revising the Blueprints: Shop Boyz Ditch the Riffs | March 18, 2015 |
They're back with a strip club sound
| The 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2012 (W/ Zip File) | December 19, 2012 |
Now with ZIP File. Download: Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012: Part II (#50-26) (Left-Click) Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012: Part I (#25-1 ) (Left-Click) Previously: Passion of the Weiss Top Hip Hop Songs — 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 Novelty Bonus – “Hot Cheetos […]
| The Six Types of Interviews You Find in Hip-Hop Journalism | September 18, 2012 |
Drew Millard’s interview game is hotter. His secret is avoiding air-conditioned rooms at all costs. Interviews are inherently odd. They’re the closest thing a music fan can get to discovering what a musician is “actually like.” It feels dirty not to put quotes around that phrase because the interview is often a performative conversation and […]
| Meet the Press: A Night with Riff Raff | September 7, 2012 |
Drew Millard once shot dice with Lady Bird Johnson in Barcelona. A rapper holding a press conference is an inherently absurd act. There might have been eight people who didn’t take Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group press conference with a grain of rice, and they were the guys standing onstage doling out platitudes about how […]
