The key to remaining a scathing and powerful gangsta rapper at 44 years old is remaining indignant, using being bi-polar as a boast, and having a voice like a Sumerian Thunder God. Also, being Scarface. Brad Jordan was on Combat Jack recently strumming the guitar to the tune of Pink Floyd because he is the […]

Jimmy Ness was born at Fresh Fest. Introducing Undergravity, the self proclaimed “funkiest duo in Houston” consisting of Atom Bomb and Mastermind After Cash. The Space Jammers recently joined forces with local freestyler Dante Higgins, who you’ll recognize by his higher vocal pitch. In the process, they released a video for “My Town” the other […]

Harrison Samphir is an editor and writer living in Winnipeg, Canada. This is his first contribution to Passion of the Weiss. Pass him all your drugs. The dude with the spacey flow debuted with the Odd Squad on Fadanuf Fa Erybody!! Signed to Rap-A-Lot Records, Devin Copeland went solo to drop a handful of classics […]

Cory Jreamz makes art-rap at its most jagged. Syllables are bayonets, references are re-arranged like toy furniture in the hands of a bored child.  He is the Black Marlon Brando, the Black Ernest Hemingway, 2Pac, David Lynch, but clearly none of those people. He’s taking his heroes and dismembering them so you only see the […]

Rap music for those trying to buy DaVinci paintings, jam Killa Season in their car, and fuck Seal’s ex-wife. So almost everybody. Cory Jreamz sneers that his DJ left him like Garnett did Rondo and says that he’s going to swap him out for Eric B. This is art-rap for the enraged with style and […]

A picture is worth at least a thousand dollars worth of codeine. If you have paid attention to the previous two posts on Maxo Kream or are merely tuning in now for the release of Quiccstrikes, the image above gives you the idea. His eyes are glowing purple, he’s wearing a blue rag around his […]

We’re probably somewhere in the third trap revival. The days of TI and Jeezy gave way to Gucci and Flocka and now the kids who grew up on all four of them are making music. From A$AP Ferg to Houston Maxo Kream, the sound is less a regional preference as much as it’s a way […]

Easy Yves Saint understands that no one will soon forget the UGK, Z-Ro and Jeezy version of “Get Throwed.” So he brings Bun B into his re-make to make the homage explicit. Rap is never shy about re-making classic songs. Don’t even get me started on French Montana’s ill-fated decision to re-fanute “Ice Cream” featuring […]

I might be running out of superlatives to offer to The Outfit, TX. We write about a lot of new music at this site, but it’s rare when an album stays on my iPod into the next season. Their Starships and Rockets record remains in semi-permanent rotation, a combination of screw music, swanging, and outer […]

Dustin-Prestige – I AM LEGEND (Music Video) from Ronnie West on Vimeo. I’m still not sure why Houston rapper Dustin-Prestige doesn’t just call the cops instead of disposing his girl’s body in a dumpster. Maybe he hasn’t seen the “Brenda’s Got a Baby” video? This sort of thing just never works out well. In other […]