| The Harder They Come: Ghostface Killah and Badbadnotgood feat MF DOOM “Ray Gun” Video | February 6, 2015 |
Ghost and DOOM go together like Wallabees and Slick Rick jewels. The latest video "Raygun" off the Ghostface x BadBadNotGood album is dipped in Blaxploitation bliss.
| Passion of the Weiss’s 2014 Movie Round-Up: 20 Film Recommendations | December 30, 2014 |
Because sometimes music writers go to the movies, here is the Passion of the Weiss staff on the best films of 2014. They've given all of these movies two snaps and a rewind.
| Deep Purple: The Making of Cam’ron’s “Purple Haze” | December 9, 2014 |
Following up the hits of "Come Home With Me", Cam'ron made a commercial flop that won the hearts of mink wearers everywhere, Dean van Nguyen included.
| To the Top Floor: Big K.R.I.T. “See Me On Top 4” | October 10, 2014 |
Dean Van Nguyen is the son of the Son of Chico Dusty When Big K.R.I.T. was putting out music at a prolific rate a couple years back– including at his nominal mixtapes in K.R.I.T. Wuz Here and 4eva N a Day – I was convinced a seat at rap’s head table was waiting. A self-producing machine in the vein […]
| Funk Wit Da Style: The Making of Craig Mack’s “Project: Funk Da World” | September 26, 2014 |
A stone cold classic, ‘Flava In Ya Ear’ (as well as its star-studded remix) was like a hip-hop Molotov cocktail. Built on offbeat horn stabs and crashing drums, it was a perfect showcase for Mack’s gruff baritone that, despite being positively earth shattering, sounded musical to the ear. His album Project: Funk da World – which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary – soon followed
| Unsolved Mystery: In Search of Young Lay | April 7, 2014 |
Dean Van Nguyen can ghost ride a hover board The history of Bay Area hip-hop remains a catacomb that requires some amount of digging by genre historians to excavate the wealth of great music that has been cut in the region. Traditionally they make their own stars in the bay. Take away some notable exceptions […]
