| The Rap Up: Week of August 26 | August 26, 2016 |
The Rap Up returns with new tracks from Pico, Vince Staples, Lil Yachty, and more.
| R&B’s Dying Landscape & The Rise of Ty Dolla Sign | November 23, 2015 |
Dan From The Internet finds hope in R&B's dying landscape thanks to Ty Dolla $ign's new album, Free TC.
| MobbDeen: Juicy J & The Weeknd Get Melancholitrippy | February 21, 2013 |
Deen is currently teaching a class on Copyright Law and early Juicy J cassette tapes at Rice University. Maybe I’m too beholden to conventional song structure, but I’m more than a little irritated that we don’t really hear Juicy J on what’s ostensibly his own single for the first TWO (2) minutes of a four […]
| Haiku Review – Wiz Khalifa’s “ONIFC” | December 4, 2012 |
Slava P’s favorite Dalmation is Pongo. Intro Ambient set-up to an album whose cover you have to replace. Paperbond Fame means you never need to admit what your song titles really mean.
| Don’t Let Me Get in my Zone: The Weeknd and Drake Discover David Lynch | November 12, 2012 |
B. Michael Payne’s favorite trilogy remains the only trilogy worth being your favorite trilogy. Now that The Weeknd’s three mixtapes are about to see a “proper” release as Trilogy, the Drake-featuring song, “The Zone”, has become the latest Weeknd video (directed by Abel Tesfaye). It opens with a familiarly Lynchian image. We’re in a car […]
