Album of the Week: Nuk – The Red Tape 2 When I think about Detroit’s 2020 rap scene, I get excited. When I get excited about their music, I tend to reminisce about watching my Boston Celtics play the rival…
Album Review: Big Boi — “BOOMIVERSE”
Typically, when you’re reviewing music, you need to tread lightly with albums with direct puns in their titles. Unless you’re “Weird Al” Yankovic, it’s dangerous territory. It sets your album with a loose, goofy tone. It sucks the pretension out…
Album Review: A Tribe Called Quest – “We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service”
“Microphone check 1 2, what is this?” A valid question: What is a new Tribe Called Quest album doing in 2016? Rap has stretched and expanded well beyond the parameters Tribe explored in their 90s heyday, so it’s not like…
Album Review: Frank Ocean “Blonde”
For fans of Frank Ocean the wait for his latest album Blonde has been aggravating, to say the least. With some mighty determination they’ve done their best to brush off any image of fan entitlement but the hunger for his…
JoJo Performs “Andre” + A Drake Mash-up!
As fans await for JoJo to announce her official summer tour dates, she caught up with Rap-Up to perform “Andre,” off of her mix tape Agápē. One of my favorite JoJo covers is Drake’s “Houstatlantavegas,” and she only has ever performed it twice including this…