“Grindin’” is a seminal work in Southern rap. When Pusha opens up with, “From ghetto to ghetto, to backyard to yard, I sell it whip on whip, it’s off the hard,” it vividly portrays street hustling. The song, a key track from Clipse’s debut album ...
While Geezy was plenty strong on his own, as he says on the album’s second-most-notable song, “Cash Money Is an Army.” But the high point is “Bling Bling,” a song where he and his fellow Hot Boyz compatriots join forces for a glitzy, synth-heavy celebration of jewelry that ...
The cameraman keeps asking which songs they want to use, but XO and the others pay him no mind. Everything is off-the cuff. They brainstorm locations and consider who can bring the Goyard bags and other designer accessories. Funny $Money is on his phone trying to lock in a video vixen...
money nestled smoothly into the track’s cavernous bass. Even with verses from Mafia founders Juicy J and DJ Paul on the back end of “Where Dem Dollas At,” Gangsta Boo’s aggressive nonchalance absorbed all attention, further carving out a space for women in Southern hip-hop and beyond....
and motivations in one place, look no further than this verse. His Compton is a dystopia: insulated from social media justice and besieged with horrors on the daily. Who are you to tell him different when he snarls, “It’s all about that money, mane, miss me with that Trump stuff”?
and Weezy the industry game-changer: The prescient, woozy “Lollipop” would almost single-handedly drag hip-hop into the Auto-Tune era. He still loved off-kilter metaphors (“I ain’t kinda hot, I’m sauna/ I sweat money and the bank is my shower/Ha ha, and that pistol is my towe...
See, back in those days, that's when we were still in the streets. So I was just about to go make a move. I was talking to him on the phone, and I was like, "I'll hit you when I get over to Atlanta." Because at that time, I was making moves. That's before all...
Real music not synth autotune recycled old songs. Drives me crazy these constant insults to existing music hits. Ur not gonna pull a fast one on me. I hear so much cheesy biting for profits. Stop with fake music. Stop making love songs by dudes about girls but the dudes singing the ...
Because the music is doing so well, A&Rs have basically moved the money away from other genres. “At some point in the last two years, people were like, Oh, my God,” says Todd Moscowitz, the former CEO of Warner Bros. Records and one of the people who shepherded Gucci Mane—who...
The Texas newcomer drew a lot of criticism for making an album that is about nothing more than making a huge racket. Kanye West mulled over racial inequality and domestic bliss on his loudYeezus; but all that animates Scott is popping pills, sipping syrup and getting racks. But he sounds ...