More diagonally, her first cover connects to an earlier era of rap album promotion. Back in the ’90s and ’00s, album art looked more like shitty superhero movie posters than anything resembling high art. Remember thePen & Pixel era? Covers—from mostly Southern rappers—featured exaggerated ...
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Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Ocean” was the most-consumed rap song of 2021. Bad Bunny’s “El Último Tour Del Mundo” was the top Latin album. And in this digital age — audio on-demand streaming set a single-year high with 988.1 billion streams — ...
A dead body on Thanksgiving told in dance and rap. Brave in the theatrical-choice sense, this is the sort of self-sacrifice designed to horrify me with vicarious embarrassment, but it doesn’t. I see this as a whole category of performance that should give awards. (You might have to cl...
they are the fraying tethers holding lamar back from the chasm of gang violence that threatens to consume him. all this weighty material might make good kid, m.a.a.d city sound like a bit of a drag. but the miracle of this album is how it ties straightforward rap thrills-- dazzling ...
When the world crowns you the king of a genre as competitive as rap, your presence — and lack thereof — is palpable. After a five-year hiatus,Kendrick Lamardeclaratively stomped back on stage with his fifth studio album,Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, to explain why the crown no...
Marjorie W.C. Sinclair, with a rare and thrilling Clair Clair rap verse (“The Louis, the prada? / both mine / Your man and his friend? / both mine / Kissin’ my ass / full-time”). It’s a burst of serotonin that makes for one of my most-listened to tracks on the album. ...
Coolio’s 1994 version of “Fantastic Voyage” became a platinum selling rap hit. James Lewis Trans-Siberian Orchestra vocalist James Lewis passed away May 22 at age 63. He toured with TSO from 2004 through 2012. TSO Guitarist Chris Caffery said, “I spent so many nights on the stage ...
My first live show since early 2020 was back in July at SAT to see hip hop artist Cadence Weapon, who’s new albumParallel Worldis among my favourites in any genre so far this year. That night, the Edmonton born, Toronto based former Montreal dweller combined his one-man ...