Riff Raff Archives

The best Riff Raff cuts juxtapose his absurd lyricism with a sense of sybaritic danger; think the slow-burn smolder of “Bird on a Wire.” To that end, Kirko Bangz’s “Shirts…

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Freestyle of the Week Review: Heems, “Himanshu Freestyles”

One of the defining characteristics of new guard hip-hop, aside from the inherent difficulties in locating or attempting to codify said characteristics, is its reliance on humor, whether in the…

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Music
Op-Ed

Freestyle of the Week Review: Macklemore, Back Room Freestyle

It takes a special kind of man to show up on 106 & Park in a profuse fur coat–which he describes as “Hungarian Tiger” before hedging and checking down to…

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Thoughts on the Freestyles of Riff Raff

Despite my own crusade, and the words of no less an authority than Big Daddy Kane, people still seem to think that a freestyle rap is one created in a…