The latest episode of Shots Fired features the honorable Isaiah Rashad, whose young career has already found him eclipsing Isaiah Thomas of the Sacramento Kings and Isaiah Thomas, the Detroit PG-turned-Executive Fiasco. That’s not a bad track record. As you probably know, he is the newest member of Top Dawg Entertainment and has gone four […]

No introduction necessary. The cat-loving gentleman who makes beats harder than carpet bombs came on the latest episode of Shots Fired. We talked about pop star cyborgs, running an indie-rap label, the greatness of Bell Biv Devoe, his Run the Jewels partnership with Killer Mike, the early years of Company Flow, and much more. Rap […]

We can all be adults here. We can cross-promote three or four different pieces of media and you will consume them like the unslakable content-craving readers that you are, then we can all go off and huddle together and talk about what we’ve learned. We can talk about the lizard people and the CIA spreading […]

Shots Fired, now with 83 percent more video. The above clip is courtesy of Mike Campbell, who cannot be killed by conventional rapper rants. This week’s episode features Busdriver and Milo in honor of the release of “Dorner Vs. Tookie.” We talk about the rise of light-skinned rappers, babble about Future and Rich Homie Quan, […]

For the latest Shots Fired, we welcomed The Far East Movement, the LA rap trio most famous for “Like a G6,” “Girls on the Dance Floor,” and for being the first Asian-American rap group to ever realize mainstream success. This site and reader tastes usually run counter-clockwise to pop music, but I think you should […]

To quote the sequel to A Dinosaur’s Story: We’re back. Our first guests are Problem and Bad Lucc, most famed for flipping Young Bleed to immense success on “Like Whaat.” But the Diamond Lane founder also dropped two of this year’s best LA rap records in the DJ Drama-presented The Separation and Million Dollar Afro […]

Almost very week, I accompany this post with a major declarative statement to induce you to listen to Shots Fired. That’s a little thing I like to call shameless self-aggrandizement. It’s sincere, as I assume you’re not hate-reading or hate-listening. And if you are, honestly, there’s a lot more interesting stuff to do in this […]

This is probably the funniest episode we’ve done on Shots Fired because Eric Andre is the funniest guest we’ve had on Shots Fired. If you’re blind to the man with the flaming arm above, his show airs Thursday nights at 12:30 a.m. on Adult Swim. You should watch it because it is the most brutally […]

For the latest installment of Shots Fired, we had on Ty$, the soulful singer of rap music and ratchet Spanish Fly, who was especially calm, cool, and relaxed despite having a hit single called “Paranoid.” Credit it to the blunt tucked behind his ear or the fact that his song is on radio multiple times […]

This episode is either one of the best Shots Fireds we have ever done or the most offensive. I suspect both. It starts out with us slandering Street Fighter II characters and moves into the Marilyn Manson and Gucci Mane song “Pussy Wet.”  Then we throw shade on Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever,”  discuss tranny knife fights […]