Deen’s going to rip off Marley Marl for his next single. You know what? There’s something to that “even a broken clock is right twice a day” shit. If you’re lenient and patient enough, any of these rappers, no matter how awful, can make some shit that you fuck with. But you shouldn’t have to […]

Sach O shouldn’t have listened to this beat after a large coffee. Prodigy isn’t the most popular of rappers to champion these days but I’ll always ride by the Mobb Deep stalwart. Return of the Mac is still one of my favorite rap albums of the last decade and what Bandana P’s flow lost in […]

The mercury’s still tipping in LA, 80-something degrees in the gut of January, evidence of global warming and the hothouse effect of three million weed smokers (due to insomnia, right Doc 420?). Last week, I was stalking the no longer mean streets of New York, braving 20 degree weather to frequent Formica-counter diners and smoke […]

I offer the demos from Infamous as an olive branch to the hard heads aghast that Sach would defend Nicki Minaj (I have not yet listened to Salmon Friday, nor am I in a rush to do so). Unlike more polished classic records, the rough unfinished versions tilt in Prodigy and Havoc’s favor. While some […]