| Searching For Brokeland: An Interview With Grip Grand | August 24, 2018 |
Jesse Taylor speaks with the rapper, producer, and budding instrumentalist about his intriguing new project and a lifelong dedication to the art of hip-hop.
The abridged case for Young Thug as the best rapper alive.
| The Passion of Price: Sean Price’s Parting Shot | August 31, 2015 |
You can donate to Sean Price's family at crowdrise.com/seanp
| Fantastic Negrito Should Score True Detective Season 2 | March 12, 2015 |
The Bay Area strummer needs to back Pizzolato's intro sequence
| Black Skinheads: Leather Corduroys “Seasons” | January 22, 2015 |
Tosten Burks hates seasons. Blink twice—and we’re 21 months removed from Acid Rap, with Chance in the stratosphere, Vic on the verge, Chop in the studio with ‘Ye, Tink with Timba, Herb with Nicki, and Louie crowned future king of Canada. Still unclear, can Bennett and Mensah’s fellow piggy bankers squeeze into the frame? And […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Civil War of Parquet Courts and “Content Nausea” | November 19, 2014 |
Douglas Martin examines the band with more aliases than Method Man, Parquet Courts, and their new album as their pseudonym Parkay Quarts
| Question in the Form of An Answer: Raz Simone Talks Seattle Hip Hop, Signing to Lyor Cohen’s New Label, and Why He Loves Gladiator | March 25, 2014 |
Brian Josephs got his life validated by shaking hands with Rick Ross. Twice. Raz Simone’s Cognitive Dissonance: Part One is a good, but moody listen, and everyone acts accordingly during the listening session in New York City’s Terminus Penthouse Studio. There are empty plastic cups from the free mini bar in the back. Reporters and […]
| Big Sean & The Authenticity of Style | September 6, 2013 |
Abe Beame is Mayor of Farmville. How important is it that your lyrics reflect reality? People have been arguing this since crack rap’s second Golden Age in the middle of the last decade. 50 Cent, survivor of 9 gunshot wounds was the biggest rapper in the world, and “international drug kingpin” Rick Ross had been […]
| Haiku Reviews: Big Sean’s “Hall of Fame” | August 27, 2013 |
Slava P has his own shrine in Cooperstown dedicated to the art of haiku. Big Sean’s new album is called Hall of Fame, a title best interpreted as a lofty future goal. Bred to be the first rapper fully incubated in the GOOD bubble, Sean’s debut album Finally Famous earned a warm reception. It spawned […]
| Why Is Big Sean Famous?: An Inquisition | July 12, 2011 |
Follow Abe Beame down the rabbit hole……..(II)……. In the late 90s, prior to Napster and the slightly more meritocratic system of Internet rap, there was a type of album that would drop roughly once a quarter. A rapper you’d never heard of before would suddenly make his presence known in the Source and radio with […]
