Though known to most as B.O.B.’s right hand, ATLien Playboy Tre (born Clarence Montgomery) has carved out his own niche in the rap game as a thoughtful storyteller and skillful shit-talker with a trio of excellent, cohesive mixtapes. He first made an impact as a solo artist with the excellent “Goodbye America” tape in ’08, […]

While on the subject of Arthurian alcoholism and the avuncular, I’d be remiss not to post the new tape from Playboy Tre, everyone’s favorite hook man for hire and intoxication impresario. Dom Passantino declares it to be not “be as strong a piece of drinking rap as “Liquor Store Mascot” was, but still gets a […]

A belated but well worth it visual for what we declared was the 30th best rap song of 2009. What I said then: “A weary, spiritual affirmation of life in the face of sorrow, “Wonderful Life,” works in binary. In his trademark nasal twang, Tre invokes the pain of his friend whose father passed away […]

Another post should be up later this afternoon, deadlines and dawdling permitting. In the interim, necessity demands sharing this incredible cut from the ATL’s top-ranking Lonnie Lynn/Rick Bawse impersonater, Sean Falyon. The West Philly-raised Falyon, pairs up with the dependably great Playboy Tre and Scar, to drop an incredibly poignant slice of the Dungeon Family-type […]