| Never Watered Down: Yoni & Geti’s “Madeline” Video | May 26, 2016 |
Yoni & Geti's "Madeline" is one of the best songs off their self-titled album.
RIP Harris Wittels
| 2015: Year of the Novelist | January 20, 2015 |
2015 is Novelist's to lose. He's got top producers in his corner, the game's biggest independent labels backing him and a flow accessible to a generation that's more Piratebay than Pirate Radio. No pressure.
| Murlo appears out of the Mist | October 24, 2014 |
There's always been a weird uncanny valley effect to Murlo's music where South and East Asian tonalities and instruments collide to create world music from a country that doesn't really exist.
| Spinn & Taso Burn that Kush for Rashad | October 9, 2014 |
Today would have been DJ Rashad's Birthday. Hyperdub and Teklife celebrate his life via video
| Hype Williams Ain’t Walking Through That Door: The Demise of Contemporary Rap Videos | October 9, 2014 |
Jimmy Ness’ first communion video was directed by Diane Martel Modern rap videos seem to direct themselves. They have 2-3 scenes. The artist does their best frowny face and points a finger gun at the camera. There’s a cool rented car, a gritty urban backdrop, a seductive vixen and an appearance from another popular artist. […]
| Novelist enters the Yard | February 7, 2014 |
Son Raw hit you with TSSS TSSS! Zha, whose mixtape I recently shared, is starting a new Youtube series highlighting up and coming emcees. Now I usually wouldn’t post a freestyle video, lord knows there’s enough sites dedicated those if you want to trawl through gigs worth of aspiring rappers, but once he roped in […]
| Starting from the Top: Drake’s “Started From the Bottom” Video | February 13, 2013 |
Slava P defeated Aubrey G in the 2005 Toronto Hebrew School Rap-Off. What do you do when you drop a just-okay single for your third album? Well, if you’re Aubrey Grahammy, you release some visuals that stretch your two minute song out to five-plus, all while profusely mentioning the city you grew up in (again) […]
| Video: Nacho Picasso – “Dean Martin/Rat Race” | February 11, 2013 |
On one hand, the rap song named after the famous person meme has been dead since Lil B made “Charlie Sheen.” On the other hand, Nacho Picasso opens “Dean Martin” with a clip from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and spends the entirety of the video dressed up in a gray suit and bowtie. Don’t ask […]
| Sasha Go Hard: Pretty Fly | January 9, 2013 |
There is no truth to the rumor that I am the long-haired hipster in the peasant button-up whipping his hair like an American Apparel Willow Smith. But it’s nice to see that Sasha Go Hard allows the Flosstradamus set to crash her roof-top functions. If you didn’t pay obsessive attention to the Chicago Drill scene […]
