It’s a beat making production style that ultimately had a huge impact on how music would be made going forward. Between the stories from the streets that boom-bap MCs would rhyme about and the unique and hard-hitting sound of boom-bap drums, the genre is still one of the most well-lo...
Since that harrowing first year, Rolling Loud is no longer a DIY venture for Zingler and Cherif — it now bills itself as the biggest hip-hop festival in the world. Along with the annual Miami fest, Rolling Loud has expanded to California and Thailand, with other iterations having taken pla...
Our crew of kids from up and down San Francisco Drive played a lot of basketball listening to ‘Pac tunes, pissing off my neighbors cause the rap music was too loud. Teens tend to be rebellious, but looking back I honestly don’t think we really cared how booming ‘Pac’s voice was ...
“I’m on the top of the deck like the ace of spades is” – Billy Danze DJ Babu’s Duck Season series of mixtapes continued the lofty standards set by the Beat Junkies, and Volume 3 was no different. It lost some of the grit – anything Dilated in the mid-2000s was always exper...
Fast, loud, mean, and classic, the first Run the Jewels tape is what happens when New York intensity and Atlanta slickness split the difference and amplify each other. El-P and Killer Mike's official debut in 2013 followed their collaborative triumph on the previous year's R.A.P. Music...
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E-Train also goes in a more soulful direction on some tracks. “Fyah Burn” features Holly Saucy singing and rapping over a mid-tempo beat. Gyrl Ab’Strakt raps over an R&B on “The Love Epidemic.” Rubydell offers her vocals on the hook of “As You Loud As You Want,” one of...
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Beach Slang –A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings -James Alex (and former crew) have created a timeless album for music fans of all ages. Catchy yet poignant, the album has been on a weekly rotation to my ears since the album dropped. It may clock in at around 30 minutes, but it is a...
Jadakiss visits Music Choice on February 19, 2020 in New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images Jadakiss Song:“We Gonna Make It” featuring Styles P Year:2001 Clever Lyrics:“We Soul for Real in the hood, we make Candy Rain”—Jadakiss ...