“Sometimes you have to get rid of everything” —Kanye West Ye… Yeezy… Yeezus… Kanye To Tha West… “Is Mr. West in the building?”… to MAGA hat wearing Trump supporter… and possibly the most hated celebrity living right now. This year has been an interesting one for the hip-hop legend. It’s almost safe to say that […]
“Bruce and I grew up watching the same TV shows. Roy Rogers used to say ‘Yippee ki yah, kids.’ So it had to become ‘Yippee ki yah, motherfucker’ in the movie. That line was from me. Whenever you think you’re writing a line that’s going to catch on, it never does. A lot of people, […]
When it comes to writing on Queer film and studying its history, you have to become an archaeologist— dig through archives of film, and like an excavator— discover a small piece and somehow place it among the rest of the pieces in order to analyze the foundations of it. Film studies of Queer representation is […]
Hip-hop, the aesthetic lifestyle of breakdancing, street art, and rap music has always been a celebration of the culture around it, namely the culture of Black America. Rap music, in particular, became a cultural doorway that allowed African Americans to deliver their message to the world around them. At the same time, rap was always […]
“I was in the living room of Dondy Bastone’s house, I was 15 and it was 1977. The song that he put on was Psycho Killer and I absolutely freaked out, it was like nothing else I had ever heard and made me feel things I had never felt… Some very strange things happened to […]
“But listen, you don’t need to be worried about these Alt-Right guys. They don’t want to fuck with Black guys. They just really hate the Jews.” It is one week after 32-year-old Heather Heyer was struck and killed by a James Alex Fields with his silver Dodge Challenger while protesting the White suprematists’ rally to […]
Star Trek: Discovery premiered Sunday, September 24, 2017 to less than stellar reviews. Set a decade before Star Trek: TOS (The Original Series), Discovery follows the exploits of the USS Discovery during the Federation/Klingon Cold War. (For the uninitiated, the Federation is a sort of interstellar United Nations, while the Klingons are, well, the bad […]
“You go through things like we went through as a band, and people started to split apart, become more like oil and water. But early on, you see the sweetness that was there. It was the three of us against the world, trying to establish ourselves, and that’s the experiment of a band.” – Andy […]
“Musicians are like politicians. They’re the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.” -Nigel Godrich It sounds “busy.” It sounds “layered.” It sounds “sparse.” It calls to mind this band or that band, and it sounds like something new and different. Something integral […]
In the previous article, I discussed the theme of James Cameron’s catalogue of movies involving humanity vs. technology. Cameron goes back and forth about how the use of technology can be both a benefit and a burden for mankind, and we as an audience will know how he will pose technology in the movie depending […]
James Cameron burst onto the scene in 1984 with The Terminator, and two years later in 1986 he released his second feature, ALIENS (to pretty much near-unanimous praise); thus Cameron had already begun a love/hate relationship with technology. As a storyteller and a director, he was well aware of the possibilities of technology, both as […]
“You’re driving in a hurricane and you see three people at a bus stop. One is an old lady and she’s sick. One is your best friend and he saved your life. And the third is the lady of your dreams. Now check it out, you only have room for one in your car, which […]
I was watching the new Showtime series, White Famous, this past week and this line jumped out at me… “Diversity’s real important to me right now.” There’s something so funny about it. Though it’s spoken quite earnestly, the intent is very clear… Diversity is only important because that’s what networks and large conglomerates think the […]
“People were literally scared of my records. There have been so many rumors about me and my records. People got the first album, and they would just make up stories. They’d get into an accident and be like, ‘I got into an accident because I was playing that tape.’ It wasn’t like we helped ourselves […]
“My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.” -Allen Iverson It’s a hot day in September, New York’s frenetic energy is juiced by […]
To get myself in the mood to write about the impact of bloghaus on pop culture for a real-life magazine (SHOUTOUT CONTROL FOREVER)… On Saturday night August 5th, instead of schlepping out to HARD Summer to see the breakout superstars of the beloved musical era, I went to Echoplex to check out a $10 bloghaus-themed nostalgia […]
“Everyone calls it hip hop, but we aren’t hip hop. Our records are always like “yeah that UK Hip Hop”, we are like grime music, its a completely different thing.” -Jelacee, Stooki Sound Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo, Jr. has made it. Last year he charted on the UK billboard top 10, wen’t #1 with […]
DeVon True is on a relentless quest to bring the value of the fan experience back to his listeners with the integrity of his music — and social media algorithms are working in his favor to help him spread his message. Joining forces with his longtime friend and collaborator Que The Poet, DeVon True has […]
Rising Los Angeles-based lyricist $peedyyy has tapped into the “Hotspot” with the help of Fenix Flexin and JI Bands on his latest release. Initiated by Fenix Flexin’s street smart flows over RonRonTheProducer’s neatly kempt production, $peedyyy graces the banger with the textbook jabbing, punch-in, punch-out cadence driven bars he has popularized in the midst of […]
Even though he is hard at work building his ShowOff Gang imprint, J-Haze is still proudly embracing his connections with the Griselda Records crew. Repping for Pittsburgh while “Buggin On Boggston” J-Haze links with Griselda producer JR Swiftz on his latest release. Armed with production courtesy of his artist-producer collaborator JR Swiftz, who recently landed […]
Now, thanks to The GVRMNT the insurrection events at the U.S. Capitol building is being turned into something creative. The four-member group whose core nucleus includes rising Detroit-based producer Mia Jay C, New Jersey sound curator Mohantra, Canadian talent Saj and Alabama-bred beatsmith Cees, nail the sound profile of multiple emerging rap sub-genres on their […]
Major artists such as Young Thug, Lil Durk and MPA Pee Wee Longway all fuck with L.A. rapper Bricc Baby because of his unstoppable grind. Despite his years-long legal troubles, Bricc Baby has maintained his status and is going into detail about his plans to take over on his fiery “25/8” banger. Feeling new and […]
J-HAZE aims to make his zero-tolerance policy for bullshit clear to listeners on his brand new “Toxic” anthem. Fusing his love for precise lyricism with a meandering melodic hook, J-HAZE fires off his song-of-the-summer entry in the 25th hour via the release of his Coop Chardonnay-produced “Toxic” anthem. Pleading his case to cut-off a disingenuous […]
Rockstar artist Johnny Lugautti is manifesting the greatness of his musical legacy and passing the torch of his high-energy lifestyle to Euro Gotit on his newest single. Embodying the wild, sexy, cool, rockstar energy Johnny Lugautti bleeds into each and every one of his turnt-up releases, “Early” allows both rappers to vibe out and lean […]
Charging forward with his unrelenting summer 2021 campaign, NHale hops on production from LFinguz for his latest gangsta rap hit “On My Time.” NHale is fully prepared to realize his sonic potential as the son of West Coast music legend Nate Dogg, as he has been relentlessly teasing his upcoming Like Father Like Son project, […]
Reinforcing the power of place, RRTommy has quickly risen in the ranks and secured his place as one of the top newcomers from the Motor City strictly based on the rollout of his debut “745” single. Now, with the help of 2L’s visuals, RRTommy brings the gang, his racks and his ice out for the […]
