Drill music can be described with Chief Keef and G Herbo (Lil Herb) and Lil Bibby. The hard-hitting trap braggadocios rap coming straight outta the Chicago area. It’s aggressive, violent, and the beats are raw, which has been attributed to…
Music Review: Vince Staples’ ‘Summertime ’06’
From “Nate” to “Kingdom,” pre-Summertime ’06 Vince was a talent to watch, with an appeal coming out of his first non-mixtape project Hell Can Wait. I remember “Nate” giving me goose bumps, but the sound was so clean and Vince…
Review: Snoop Dogg’s “Bush.”
Who remembers the man with that dance? Or the man who still got the “Gin and Juice” in hand? Snoop Dogg has always been that artist that hasn’t met the quality of his debut album Doggystle, with subsequent releases, but…
Album Review: Tyler, the Creator’s Cherry Bomb
Tyler, the Creator recently said in an interview with Travis Smiley, “I’m smart, I’m annoying, and obnoxious; I’m very creative and borderline genius and I think other people are seeing that, or are starting to see the other good points.”…
Album Review: I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside – An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
To say Doris is really good or even great is an overstatement. The instrumentals were jazzy, lively, and dark and he’s a damn good lyricist. But his monotone flow didn’t want me to go back to it much. Yet, this…
Album Review: To Pimp A Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
It’s disingenuous to think about To Pimp a Butterfly outside the context of the series of events and conversations that escalated, although didn’t begin, with the shooting of Michael Brown. With that, this album has a counterpart in last year’s…
Chance the Actor in “Mr. Happy”
Chancelor Bennett, better known by his stage name, Chance the Rapper, has finally delved into the world of film, with the Collin Tilley directed “Mr. Happy.” This film is a bit strange. The film centers on a young man by…