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 is festive, with or without the festival. I planned on using this opener to recap Rhyme Fest LA, a day-long old-school[…]
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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 wants to know if Project T-Pain is 03 Greedo’s best album? In a frequently depressing world, small doses of hope and[…]
Covering everything from Rage beats to niche Twitter icons. Please support the realest hip-hop blog for over a decade running by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Evan Nabavian’s YouTube algorithm is chaotic good. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise is an anime from 1987 about an army trying to achieve manned[…]
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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 is collecting signatures. For what, he does not know. In his Odd Future past life, Domo’s unique sneer would evoke truancy[…]
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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 pitching on three days rest. Over the last dozen years, the Vancouver-raised, Compton-realized Jay Worthy has consistently dropped dazzlingly crafted[…]
Graphic via POW 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. This week on The Truth[…]
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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 is seeing something else in these Georgia O’Keefe portraits. Live from the narrowest and mustiest hallway in a house of browning[…]
Covering everything from Rage beats to niche Twitter icons. Please support the realest hip-hop blog for over a decade running by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Son Raw witnessed the fitness. Kevin Martin, the man behind The Bug and a half-dozen other projects and aliases, knows his music. Whether championing Dub and[…]
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 has acquired Yamashita’s gold (Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss, out now and available here). On what was supposed to[…]
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