LIYM COURTEOUS featuring SONNY RENAISSANCE prod V.DON -BLACK SABBATH- from supadope on Vimeo. Deen doesn’t root for Birmingham either. If you held me at machete point and asked me to name 2 really good rappers I discovered last year, one of those rappers would be Vince Staples and the other one would be Liym Courteous. […]

Deen has a fan club in Cardiff.  Like most humans, I have a list of my favorite Welshmen. Yes, favorite Welshmen. See, the Welsh are a very illustrious bunch with great and unique talents. Probably because they’re a bunch of overgrown mountain elves with a dragon on their flag and a weirdly magical native tongue. […]

Deen will never refer to the CPT as Bompton.  Let me let you in on a little secret; the main reason I write about anything related to Drake on this website isn’t because of his status in the game or any sustained interest in his music. Nope. The most amusing thing about writing about Drake […]

Deen cut someone last week who uttered the phrase, “Merry Kwanzaa.”  The list you’re about to read isn’t in any particular order. It’s basically a list of cool music shit that happened in 2013 that I really wanted to write something more substantial than a tweet about. So just do me a solid and enjoy […]

Deen looks like he robbed a bank. I’m either hearing a quantum leap in Rich Homie Quan’s product on his latest tape or I’m just on holiday mode. But I suspect that I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In may actually let Quan live up to the title of project. And I’m being completely honest, I […]

I’m in my third decade on the planet and I’m still not sure that I understand what the exact point of a mix is. Even if I’ve been making tons of them for years. What I do know is that I’m inherently incapable of making a mix without trying to sneak in some shit the […]

Deen is not berserk. Gangsta Gibbs never really gives us much time to breathe. To quote that now boring, but still genius white nigga, “rap feels so empty without (him).” At least for those of us that still dig gangsta rap. I dunno about the rest of you muthafuckas. Thankfully, Gibbs works really hard to […]

Deen originally thought this rapper was a British soccer player. Shit like this that transports me back to my favorite era of rap, I feel bad for immediately seeking references and comparing said song to the classics it reminds me of. I suppose it’s a natural thing for most people, ergo, not necessarily a bad […]

. Deen has never even been to Saskatchewan. When I started writing this piece, I’d have picked any number of other songs from PartyNextDoor’s self-titled effort for the video treatment, but halfway through the video I had to pause and take stock of what I was listening to. I initially had an issue with him […]

This is written by the man branded MobbDeen, so you should already know. Here are a few universal truths: death, taxes and the Alchemist being responsible for one of my favorite rap releases of any given year. Since 2007, the Alchemist has been responsible for critical favorites such as Prodigy’s ‘Return of the Mac (aka, […]