Himanshu Mixtape Review Lead in by the bewildering lunacy of Kool A.D.’s The Palm Wine Drinkard, released in the dark shadow of SOPA and briefly dying with the removal of…
It takes a special kind of aplomb to hop on another rapper’s track. The courage needed is often dictated by the fame differential between the original and the newcomer: if…
Rick Ross starts the year off right with his newest project, Rich Forever. He continues to prepare for his upcoming album, God Forgives, I Don’t and this is a quality…
Styles P “Float Good” Styles P provides a few bars over an unlikely source on “Float Good.” The subdued sounds of Frank Ocean’s “Swim Good” seem to play well with…
One third of bleeding edge harlequins Das Racist, Kool A.D. may have taken the joke a little too far on The Palm Wine Drinkard, the first of a trio of…
I spent the holidays in Southeastern Ohio. Our little piece of the heart lays at the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers, muddy brown arteries whose lifeblood used to…
From “What I Do” to “F.A.M.E.”, Young Jeezy’s TM103: Hustlerz Ambition is composed of anthems that bang hard through the speakers and is bound to keep Jeezy a known commodity…
The first high profile collaboration between a mainstream rapper and a member of the New Guard, Gucci Mane and V-Nasty’s BAYTL bears the scars that one would expect from such…
Having owned a floppy toque or two, being a graduate of a school less than an hour away from the Peace Bridge and the shining lands of the Great White…