It's a thrilling time for rap music as digital platforms have drastically changed how performers craft, circulate, and promote their art. No longer are rappers constrained by traditional gatekeepers like record labels or radio stations who would dictate what could be released based upon marketability...
album you can let rock from front to back, but Snoop’s star turn on “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” and the Eazy-E and Luke diss track “F—k Wit Dre Day” were staples on the charts (and, with their unforgettable accompanying visuals, on music video stations like MTV and The ...
Honestly, it wasn’t just reading Audre Lorde or Toni Morrison that introduced me to the idea that Black women need to be free for all of us to be free. So it would be ridiculous to think my interests in music were purely intellectual. It was spiritual, it was sexual, it was ...
The radio freestyle is alive, it just looks a lot different than it used to. Funk Flex’s days of gatekeeping are long gone. Noteworthy freestyles happen less and less on nationally syndicated stations, as more regionally-targeted online platforms emerge. One is On the Radar Radi...
Find a high school or college party in Memphis that did not have wall-to-wall youth pumping their arms in bicep curl fashion while hopping back and forth on one leg. At the tender age of 17, Emanuel Patterson (now 27) shook dj’s and local radio stations with an unexpected release of...
Fuck him; yeah but now I just listen to dubstep Early on “FTLT” Darren Kandler b/k/a Klashnekoff makes his opinion of the current scene in London abundantly clear through the satirical skit above mocking the things music buyers say these days. Not only is the person asking “What happen...
” the controversy has shifted to the homophobic and misogynistic content of his lyrics, even as suburban mall rats and inner-city kids continue to snap up the album at a furious pace. He is the first white artist in the history of the music to be widely played on rap radio stations in...
This turnaround is especially dramatic because rap was first dismissed by white rock fans as the enemy--some strange bastard offspring of disco. Rock radio stations resisted it. Even critics outside New York sidestepped it, except for an occasional socially conscious record such as Grandmaster Fl...
mischief—but he has become, nonetheless, one of the SoundCloud scene's most revered figureheads. It used to be that labels would find artists, and then the labels would be responsible for shaping the artists' images and bringing them to the world via radio stations and formal album rollouts...
‘s Radio Songs and Pop Songs charts — a rarity in a time when hip-hop streaming smashes by the likes of Uzi, Lil Pump and Trippie Redd were barely even being touched by Top 40 stations. It all added up to Juice WRLD emerging as one of the biggest new rap or rock stars o...