SAWEETIE RELEASES “ICY” After building up plenty of hype, Saweetie has released her newest project, ICY. The Bay Area rapper showcases her version of modern trap and hyphy music, making an excellent hybrid blend of both on this project. She gets help from her Migos’ boyfriend, Quavo, on several tracks, adding flavor. All in all, Saweetie is […]
I’ve got a question for you: When’s the last time you read a book? One you weren’t explicitly assigned to read. Not for class. For fun. I’m willing to wager it’s been a while. Instead of binging The Office for the fourteenth time in a row, hit the library and open one of these page-turners. Don’t be […]
JUICE WRLD ARRIVES Juice WRLD has been connecting with the young trap fanbase to the aesthetics of a emo lifestyle. Death Race For Love is a project where Juice WRLD dwells with the duality of being a famous rapper and a depressed teenager. While he flexes in typical trap fashion, he also manages to deliver depressing bars […]
The hip-hop music video game is being taken by storm by a 22-year-old director and producer by the name of Cole Bennett, and his self-made empire, Lyrical Lemonade. Young as he is, he is talented far beyond his years. Boy genius Bennett has worked with, created for, and is a friend to all of your favorite rap artists—from […]
HIGH BROTHERS DROP FIVE STARS ALBUM China’s own Higher Brothers has released a new full-length project. Five Stars is a hard-hitting array of interesting hip-hop. While the group most definitely goes hard on a lot of trap cuts, like “We Talkin Bout” and “One Punch Man,” the group also shows an appreciation for hip-hop through more boom-bap […]
In 1999, Mike Judge was known primarily for the MTV series called Beavis and Butt-Head. The show was such a hit for MTV that it had been turned into a video game and also a feature-length movie. Before that, he had directed a few episodes of SNL, and had even created a cartoon character named Milton, a schlep […]
HIGH BROTHERS DROP FIVE STARS TRACKLIST With what had to be one of the most interesting ways of dropping a tracklist, High Brothers released a video for their song, “Five Stars Album.” The music video features a young boy running around the city dancing, while the different tracks on the album appear. The names featured […]
January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied Forces (specifically the Russians) during World War II, and it is also a day set aside in which to remember the 6.5 million Jews who were systematically slaughtered and murdered by the Nazis. 6 million is a number almost too […]
1989 Batman – There is no competing with the hype machine that went into this movie. There is no way it wasn’t going to be a blockbuster (and it was), though it took years for me to understand this was a comedy and not a drama like Superman. I’ve only recently began to appreciate it, and I […]
