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POW Book Club 002: Such Great Heights by Chris DeVille

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Remembering Jack DeJohnette, Your Favorite Drummer’s Favorite Drummer

Art by 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. If he wasn’t already your favorite jazz drummer, Jack DeJohnette[…]

The Truth Hurts: Blu

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The Rap-Up: Week of October 27, 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 did a Scrooge McDuck jump into his pool of candy corn. Frightening sounds for frightening times. Junglepussy[…]

A Guide To the Best of 2020s Milwaukee Rap

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. Milwaukee is roughly 90 miles north of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan. The classic industrial city was[…]

The Truth Hurts: Wallie the Sensei

Graphic 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. Wallie the Sensei joins[…]

Not a Concert, a Communion: NBA YoungBoy’s MASA Tour Review

All photos via William Eller 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. William Eller is a[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of October 20, 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. Donald Morrison is bringing back foh because “a lot of y’all need to leave. By force.” My YouTube algorithm[…]

The Foundation: An Interview With Grand Puba

Art by Evan Solano Paul Thompson pulled more stunts than Action Jackson. If you trace enough artists’ careers back to their beginnings, you find that even the greatest MCs usually go through a formative period where they imitate their influences and stumble around in the dark looking for a style of their own. That’s not[…]

Rap Genius: An Interview With Kool G Rap

Art by Evan Solano Jeff Weiss is gonna’ rock this at the drop of a dime. Stars were born in the crumbling tenement on 12th Street. By the mid-80s, this roach-riddled, two-bedroom in the Queensbridge projects was the centripetal force of the hip-hop solar system. That’s where Marley Marl controlled the den of the dingy[…]

The Anointed One: A Requiem For D’Angelo

Art by 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. Abe Beame is standing[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of October 13, 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. Wandering Heaven and Earth, AKAI SOLO is asking the big question: “What[…]

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

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 August, several of the world’s finest DJs offered sets to beat the heat one last[…]

What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica in 2025?

Graphic 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[…]

The Truth Hurts: Heembeezy

Graphic 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. Heembeezy sits down with[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of October 6, 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. “Starburst” is a two-parter that starts off as a reflection on Danny[…]

The Mind of Marco Plus

Graphic 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. The fact that someone[…]

Bbyafricka Is L.A.’s Modern-Day Renaissance Woman

Graphic 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‘ Letterboxd page[…]

The Truth Hurts: Cappadonna

Graphic 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. The Wu-Tang Clan’s Cappadonna[…]

The Rap-Up: Week of September 29, 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. Harley Geffner still wants to know if Project T-Pain is 03 Greedo’s best album? Friday nights are amazing. The[…]