Project of the week: Lor Choc – Still Worth It Baltimore’s Lor Choc follows a long lineage of auto-tune blues crooners who sing about persevering through genuine hardship over guitar-laden trap passages. The landscape has become so saturated with this…
Hip Hop Roundup: Bomethius, Polo G, Jean Deax, and More
Album of the week: Bomethius – Inadiquit https://bomethius.bandcamp.com/album/inadiquit I’m breaking the rules this week to highlight one of my favorite albums anyone has sent me this year. Jonathan Hodges is a multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who just released a nine-song…
The Hip Hop Roundup: The Best Projects from March
Not going to lie, March sucked for a myriad of reasons. From an objective standpoint, the world began it’s descent into the abyss thanks to a catastrophic virus that continues to wreak havoc daily (I still blame climate change and…
Hip Hop Roundup March 22: Sada Baby, Mac Hefner, Quelle Chris and more
Album of the week: Sada Baby – Skuba Sada 2 It would seem that in a world where social distancing is becoming more and more prevalent by the day, a “jerk” challenge would spark from various TikTok accounts. This eccentric…
The Hip Hop Roundup: Chief Keef, Ill Addicts, Don Tolliver and more
Album of the week: Ill Addicts – Malfunction Boston’s Ill Addicts may have just released the perfect cataclysmic album for our apocalyptic world setting. Compared to their jovial approach in the past (“Cake,” “Ahora”), Malfunction illustrates a group that’s more…
Hip Hop Roundup: The Best from March 2-9
Project of the Week: BBY Godard – Euphoria Welcome to the spiritual macrocosm that is Bby Goyard’s music. For those who aren’t accustomed to this celestial experience of Soundcloud’s next great innovator, Bby Goyard is someone who thrives in an…
The Hip Hop Roundup: Shootergang Kony, Saint Lyor, and more
Album of the Week Shootergang Kony: Red Paint Reverend Currently my favorite album of 2020, Shootergang Kony thoroughly combines dizzying LA gun talk from past projects with heart-wrenching meditations about death, departure and biblical revelations. His versatility shines within his…