Melly came to prominence off the success of singles like “Murder On My Mind” and “Slang That Iron.” His growing numbers on YouTube and SoundCloud notched him co-signs from Future and Young Thug. In anAprilBillboardinterview, he described what it was like growing up in Gifford, Florida...
The murder of Tupac Shakur is one of the most notorious unsolved killings in hip-hop history. The icon was shot in Las Vegas at the age of 25 onSept. 7, 1996, dyingsix days laterat University Medical Center due to complications from his bullet wounds. On the night 'Pac was shot, Sug...
Of course, Levin had a wit drier than a desert, and Murder Made Easy doesn’t even come close to matching it. There are moments of dialogue that brought a smile to my face, but nothing that cemented itself in my mind in the wayMichael Caineconfusedly announcing “I thought I heard the...
Researching this episode was a complete nightmare. Every step took it further away from being a dark little piece of trivia and, by the time I got tothe court papers with all the details of Ella Mae’s injuries, this murder was fully alive in my mind. I could see it all happening. I...
“My nigga Lil Derrick is quick to cop a key/Either that or load the gat and go pop a G/And because of that he's just a name in a rhyme of mine/I pray his family and his mama fine.” But there’s very little to find about his death on killed uptown due to a street beef ...
You can find links to all this audio on the PlanetSlade page above, or hear the whole "album" in the Soundcloud set here. The styles people have chosen range all the way from unaccompanied traditional folk singing via acoustic guitar ballads to full-on rock workouts with a whole band. ...