Kevin Gates slinks into his Technicolor bedroom in the video for the 'Luca Brasi 2' cut.
| Rap Up – Week of 5/1/15 | May 1, 2015 |
French Montana, Chinx Drugz, N.O.R.E., Earl, Troy Ave, Kevin Gates, Baraq, Peewee Longway, Calliope Var, Ray Vicks,
The fast-rising Houston rap group continue to be codeine's best selling point.
| Never Go Against the Godfather: Kevin Gates “Luca Brasi 2” | December 29, 2014 |
His name is Paul Thompson and he’s been looking for you I’m writing this from a Bed Bath & Beyond. Just as this March’s By Any Means came out in the shadow of YG’s raucous My Krazy Life and Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s unflinching Pinata, there is a new Kevin Gates tape that you won’t listen […]
| The Top 50 Albums of 2014 #25-1 | December 12, 2014 |
In the conclusion of a special two part series, the Passion of the Weiss staff crown their top albums of 2014 and learn the value of friendship, decency, and karate.
| Kevin Gates, Rock Supplying Like the Flintstones | December 3, 2014 |
You don’t need any more extended tributes to Gates. After all, year-End lists are approaching and for the third straight year, he’s been writing and sending hits. At the moment, he has four ostensibly free mixtapes in the Top 100 of the iTunes Rap charts. In the last two weeks, he’s leaked “John Gotti,” a […]
Art By Brad Beatson. Left and Right Swiping By Paul Thompson, Torii MacAdams, and Jeff Weiss
| Kevin Gates & Rustie Know the Bouncer: “Wait in Line” | November 13, 2014 |
Torii MacAdams does the Shmoney dance with dual iPads Walt Whitman wrote “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” Kevin Gates, too, contains multitudes, though admittedly many of his internal legion just want to punch you in the nose. The world’s foremost jailhouse behavioral therapist is […]
| Young Scooter x Kevin Gates x Rich Homie Quan “Drugs Remix” | August 18, 2014 |
Jimmy Ness is the enemy at the gate. Young Scooter’s struggle bars ensure the “Drugs” [Remix] won’t be making an appearance on anyone’s song of the year list, but only the heartless won’t appreciate Rich Homie Quan’s sincere croons dedicated to brain altering chemicals. Originally written off as a Future clone, the 24 year old […]
Torii MacAdams is tired of rappers comparing “Medusa” to all things sedimentary in their rhymes In Greek mythology, Gaia, the Earth’s mother, is the primordial deity who birthed the Titans, along with daughter Rhea, who begat the Olympian Gods. The Titans and Olympian Gods were combative shit-stirrers, mothered by the terra itself, considerable forces destined […]
