Give this song credit. Everything about it from artwork to title to giggling should make it corny sub-Gravediggaz horror-core, but it somehow manages to be a banger. There is always a new group of freshmen who need drug anthems. Stream:
| Rap Frost Vs. Nixon: | June 15, 2012 |
Most video interviews aren’t worth your time. You have turn off your music, get in stealth mode from your employer and most of the time it rarely amounts beyond a heap of cliches. Not this time. A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown interview each other and it yields one of the greatest exchanges of all-time. Danny […]
| A$AP Rocky – Goldie (Video) | May 3, 2012 |
Son Raw has extraordinary swag. Because rapping in front of the Eifel Tower is the new rapping in the hood. Also, because rap videos are so much better when they’re not safe for work. I last wrote about Rocky’s lead single in the pressure cooker constraints of the we-got-it-first blogosphere pressure cooker but repeated listens […]
| Son Raw: A$AP Rocky – Goldie | April 16, 2012 |
Son Raw would prefer the aces, wouldn’t he? Swagger for days. LiveLoveA$AP continues to demonstrate substantial replay value, proving that a well crafted, original project will always trump a barrage of buzz-building stopgaps. Though it would be all too easy to fuck it up with poorly chosen production or sell-out moves at this point, all […]
Jimmy Ness is telling you that trill ain’t dead. Bring the menacing shit. Razor blades in larynx, Bodega Bamz snarls all over “Told Ya” and treats apocalyptic Baltimore like a crack Disneyland. What Bamz lacks in technical street slang, he makes up for with threatening conviction. His diamonds are black and blue cause he bruised […]
| FAT TAPE – March 2012 | March 27, 2012 |
Abe Beame is in a different world and you kind of look like Jasmine Guy. Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?zg79d7f82wf3bz7 Hodgy Beats – “In a Dream” As most people observed when this dropped, Hodgy’s Untitled EP is a vision of what OF could’ve been if the internet didn’t ruin everything. To me, the projects harkens back to when […]
| Swizz Beats, Araabmuzik and A$AP Rocky take it forward | March 24, 2012 |
Son Raw is now listening to Klezmermuzik. It makes sense that Swizz and Rocky would work together. For one thing, it’s almost certain that an impressionable Rakim Meyers would have had his mind blown by Ruff Ryders anthem back in the day but furthermore, both are native New Yorkers who’ve rejected tradition for innovation. I […]
| Everything is Purrple and Pink | March 23, 2012 |
4AD signs SpaceGhostPurrp and just think of the potential for corporate synergy. Deerhunter and the Raider Klan collaborating for “Suck a Dick for 2013.” The God of Black and Ariel Pink coming together for God of Pink, with all your favorite jams like “Leanin’ Round and Round.” If we can get a Zomby and Spaceghost […]
| Video: Schoolboy Q ft. A$AP Rocky – “Hands on the Wheel” | January 20, 2012 |
Before someone makes the Ice Cube comparisons, understand that Schoolboy Q has never listened to an O’ Shea album straight through. His favorite rapper is Nas, which makes no sense until you actually think about it. If A$AP Rocky is remembered for nothing else: let him be known for being the one to bring Stussy […]
| The Spaceghost of the Atlantic Coast | January 3, 2012 |
If rappers are going to mine Atliens for inspiration, it seems only right that someone else strike the main mid-90s vein that is Mystic Stylez. A$AP Crew could use their own Gangsta Boo, but couldn’t we all. There was no other way to ride out the year than bumping “Suck a Dick for 2011.” I […]
