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Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Best Rock Records of 2025

Art via Evan Solano Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Douglas Martin still won’t hesitate to stretch you like Zack Sabre Jr. Every year for the intro for this list, I feel[…]

The Garden State Gargoyle Speaks: An Interview With Fatboi Sharif

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Staley Sharples says that[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of January 12, 2026

Art via Evan Solano The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Donald Morrison aka Donthany Morristano here, the internet’s most chopped music nerd. To no one’s surprise, 2026 is already[…]

Mixing Realities: An Interview With Producer cktrl

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Staley Sharples says that[…]

The Greatest Live Recordings of 2025

Art via Evan Solano Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Music never sleeps and neither does Leonel. Music is, first and foremost, a communal experience. Its ritual dimension, its bodily roots, and[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of January 5, 2026

Art via Evan Solano The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Steven Louis thinks thinks the schnozzberry vape tastes like schnozzberry vape juice. There’s but one correct choice for this[…]

The POW Best Albums of 2025

Art via Evan Solano If you value independent journalism, please subscribe to the POW Patreon. Slime-colored bandannas in front of the flag, wolves clutching draco’s, ecclesiastical orchestrations, drums exploding into shrapnel, siren-like drones, halcyon memories becoming increasingly unfamiliar, Max Roach vocals, coke rap at the Vatican, ayahuasca trance, broken phones, cyberpunk, and living, laughing, and[…]

The Best Moments of 2025 Rap

Art by Evan Solano The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Harley Geffner is ending the year still wanting to know if Project T-Pain is 03 Greedo’s best album? This was[…]

The POW Best Rap Singles of 2025

Art by Evan Solano This list is the result of hundreds of hours, four editors, and dozens of contributors attempting to capture the spirit of the old weird Internet. Should you value what we do, please consider donating to our Patreon. Snakebite antidote is made from venom. The cure can be found within the poison.[…]

We Outside: The Best Live Performances of 2025

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Pranav Trewn finds peace[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of December 22, 2025

Art via Evan Solano The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Steven Louis thinks every movie is a Christmas movie. This column was a (stacked, handsome) backfield-by-committee throughout 2025. I[…]

The 10 Best Avant Garde Albums of 2025

Art via Evan Solano Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Chris Robinson is going to be MC Hammer Meets Vampire for Halloween. The end of the year and its corresponding flood of[…]

The Truth Hurts: Baron Davis

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Baron Davis shares his[…]

Israel Jones Is an Architect of North Florida Blues

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Ant shall bring disaster[…]

Delirium at the Bubblegum Aquarium: An Interview With Crystal Sting

Art by Evan Solano Donate to the Patreon. Support independent media or else it won’t exist. The fact that someone is always watching SORCERER on Letterboxd gives Will Schube faith in humanity. If you’ve ever felt an insatiable desire to take in a set at a jazz club suffocating in cigarette smoke while simultaneously listening[…]

The Truth Hurts: All City Jimmy (FKA Nocando)

Art via Evan Solano Show your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Leimert Park legend All[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of December 8, 2025

Art via Evan Solano The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you need to hear. Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Ant shall bring disaster to evil factors. Every piece of Playboi Carti content (demos, scrapped videos, unreleased fit pics)[…]

Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of October 2025

Art via Michael McKinney Independent rap journalists will recommend you new music until their voices give out. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Michael McKinney understands the cultural importance of Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci.” In October, plenty of the world’s finest DJs lit up the decks,[…]