| Drake Suarez: If Rappers Were Footballers | June 20, 2014 |
Somehow the rap game, reminds Dweez of the beautiful game. Art by Ben Bjelajac. Drake featuring Drake. We’ve now seen all 32 teams play in this tournament. Google searches are 10x higher for the World Cup than they were for the NBA Finals this last week. The game done changed and here is a guide […]
| Spring Mix – Frank N Beats Mix 003 | May 23, 2014 |
Aaron Frank is just another case about the wrong path Every year, as the weather gets warmer, I always find myself trying to get outside more often to enjoy it. But with climate change destroying the weather patterns I grew accustomed to in my youth, spring essentially ceases to exist. In its place is a […]
Jimmy Ness is The Future Since Datpiff was founded in 2005, mixtapes have evolved from compilations traded on street corners to a career necessity for any rapper without Jay-Z’s Rolodex. Datpiff were among the first to pioneer digital mixtapes and took some of the distribution power from labels. This helped artists to freely share music […]
| An Honest Review of Future | April 29, 2014 |
Doc Zeus is honest, even when he lies Atlanta rap troubadour/robot Future is one of rap’s greatest stylists. The breakthrough success of his 2012 debut album, Pluto, transformed Future from a gruff mixtape trap star into something approaching a sensitive, sentient rap love-bot seemingly inventing a new, heavily imitated aesthetic on the fly. Pluto’s audio […]
| Reporting Live From the S.W.A.T.: Big Rube’s Greatest Hits | April 15, 2014 |
Dan Adu-Gyamfi eats gumbo for breakfast While addressing Big Rube’s involvement on his sophomore album Honest, Future told Pitchfork “Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna […]
| He’s So Vain: Future & Kanye & Winning | April 10, 2014 |
Fuck sex tapes with their significant others, how much would you pay to watch a video of Future and Ye’s studio session? What do Nayvadius Cash and Grand Vizier Kanye Omari West talk about when the two of them are alone. Mind control? Inter-galactic space travel? The last decade of Maxim’s 100 Hottest babes list’s […]
| How the Sad Robot Became The Dominant Sound in Rap | February 20, 2014 |
Essay by Dan Adu-Gyamfi, art by Brad Beatson and captions by Son Raw. T-Pain’s use of Auto-Tune influenced many to follow their singing dreams even if their vocal chords refused to go along. A new rap subgenre was born: “Sad Robot Music.” The phrase was coined by site founder, Jeff Weiss, and rapper, Nocando, on […]
| Sunday Morning Comic: The Man Made of Music | February 9, 2014 |
Brad Beatson is from where the Buffalo roam. Future has a new track:
In an alternate universe, some wry television producer will come to his senses and develop a sitcom with Young Thug and Future playing psychiatrists in need of their own psychiatrists. The basic premise is that in every episode, one or both have some sort of manic freakout which will play out musically via bell-ringing trap […]
| Future Myth: The Latest Work from the Dungeon Family Astronaut | January 30, 2014 |
Dan Adu-Gyamfi ([email protected]) is a sad cosmonaut. Since L.A. Reid’s blocked Future from releasing mixtapes, we’ll never get the double disc tape Super Future/Fire Marshall Future. Hence, the only way the ATLien can feed the streets is through hosting mixtapes for DJs. Last month, the Astronaut Kid was featured prominently on Mike Will Made It’s […]
