Best known as a founding member of Detroit-based hip-hop collective D12 and Eminem's right-hand man, this talented rapper possessed an uncanny ability to freestyle off-the-cuff lyrics on the spot. With his charismatic presence and undeniable skill, he played a crucial role in shaping the ...
Best known as a founding member of Detroit-based hip-hop collective D12 and Eminem's right-hand man, this talented rapper possessed an uncanny ability to freestyle off-the-cuff lyrics on the spot. With his charismatic presence and undeniable skill, he played a crucial role in shaping the ...
Last summer, at the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan, I rapped “Sincerely Face” word for word along with hundreds of other Detroit rap enthusiasts. I don’t think I was happier all year than in those two-and-a-half minutes. There’s nothing like being in close quarters with pe...
by J. Jesses Smith, does its best to capture an uncontainable talent. DMX rapped as physically as he sounds on record, lunging back and forth toward the audience
courtesy of DJ Premier turned out to be a good choice. The original was nice, but Premier’s beat, which sampled Maynard Feguson’s “Mister Mellow,” became a sensation. Of course, it helped that Eminem’s character in8 Milerapped over the beat during his first professional freestyle. ...
Straight off of an hours-long call with her psychic, Summer penned the lyrics in homage to the man whom her spiritual advisor had just confirmed was “the one” (indeed, she would be with him until her death in 2012).On paper, those lyrics aren’t much. But isn’t that what being ...
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“I was in Year 11 doing Information and Communication Technologies and watching the same freestyles, taken from the DVDs Practice Hours and Risky Roadz on YouTube, over and over again,” he told Red Bull Music Academy in 2010. While DVDs cost money and weren’t necessarily...
Sudan Archives’ Brittney Parks thwarts expectations by the minute: rapped verses drip into expressive violin suites, while meditations on a range of topics—domesticity, colorism, her beloved hometown of Cincinnati—morph into ass-shaking floor fillers. You can sense the follow-your-arrow fun ...
And “Grandma’s Stove” is a lovely song: delicately produced, expertly rapped, with additional solumness coming from Musiq Soulchild’s soft crooning. But it’s also a messy confessional. Truthfully, there’s writing here that will not rank among the best things Gibbs will ever do: he ...