About a month ago, I interviewed Danny Brown for Spin. We started talking about Section 80 and he said, “that if you’re a rapper and if you heard “A.D.H.D.” and didn’t lose sleep, you’re doing something wrong.” It’s a wonderful thing when the rap world can anoint the next star based on talent instead of […]

It’s a distant memory now, but the guys from The Wash were once two of the most terrifying men in music. More importantly, they were two of the funkiest. Rap could use far less four on the floor and far more funk. Via Crates of JR.

I’ve mentioned Dumb a few times around here. I mentioned him a lot more here. I will inevitably be mentioning him a lot more in print sometime soon. A Swim Teamer along with Open Mike Eagle, Verbs and Alpha, he is arguably the most popular unsigned rapper in LA, and certainly the most well known […]

The only video of the year featuring men stroking an iguana, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Jay Gatsby references. Hail Mary Mallon is still for sale and spreading typhoid to those immune to its charms. I am going to San Francisco this weekend and I will eat a hamburger at Grubstake in their honor. Download: […]

Take your sub-Dipset technicolor Dreamcoat hyperlink rap, I will opt every time for the caustic smirk of Serengeti and his former Saluki, Open Mike Eagle. Admittedly, there is home field advantage at work, now that both Chicago natives are permanent residents of my smog-scarred birthplace. I have a feature in next week’s LA Weekly on […]

Black Sheep shirts. Smoking Reggie Jackson kush out of swisher sweets. Curmudgeon swag. Cooking with Barney in front of Grauman’s Chinese. Doing illicit things at the La Brea Tar Pits. Visuals of the Armenian orthodox church. David Letterman. Talcum. Three coffee’s, one sugar. BEeFF are the funniest group out right now. Run and tell your […]

Aesop Rock, Blockhead, Kimya Dawson and four out five Naval Admirals agree, Open Mike Eagle’s Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes is one of the best rap records of the year. You should buy it. The man has a wife and son. And someone has to pay for the expensive California chronic being incinerated in […]

Sach O thinks the only thing this video is missing is a Kool Keith sample. At this point Benga is Dubstep royalty, touring the festival circuit and dropping bombastic riffs – as a rockstar of his caliber should. When I caught him a few months ago with partner in crime Skream, I found their set […]

Featuring a forklift, ice cream trucks, tighty whites, talk shows, beards, beef, pyramid schemes, playing cards for candy, dentures, butchers, fangs, and Stuart Murdoch in construction regalia. Another gray day in Glasgow. B&S drop the next single from last year’s inconspicuously excellent Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

OUT MY MIND JUST IN TIME from Creative Control on Vimeo. Evan Nabavian voided his conscious aura by stealing Talib Kweli’s Metro Card. Erykah Badu voided her conscious aura by working with Rick Ross, whose tattooed bosoms are burned on the insides of my eyelids thanks to the new Vibe. You can’t be a bohemian […]