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 May, plenty of the world’s finest selectors turned in critical sessions. PLO Man, an undersung[…]
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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 trying out that diet sunscreen. Less sugar, same great taste. I’ve always been a bit miffed by Smoke DZA’s sleeper[…]
This article originally ran in an unnamed once-great alternative weekly circa 2015. Cam and China were legends before they had driver’s licenses. While still stuck in P.E. class at Hamilton High, the Inglewood twins were two-fifths of Pink Dollaz, the best female rap group since Salt-N-Pepa. This was the 2008-09 apex of the jerkin’ era,[…]
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. When the music world lost Fela Kuti nearly[…]
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. Slim400 embodied West Coast gangsta rap. A brash and wise-cracking Compton traditionalist who wore his[…]
Chris Brown is one of a kind. And he wants the world to know it. “I wish yall stop comparing me to other [artists] and saying me vs someone else. Until one of these artists do all this shit by themselves with no help and the media constantly f*cking with them, then come holla at[…]
Universal is trying to get the latest amendment to Drake’s defamation lawsuit against the label– which is a response to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us — thrown out. During today’s proceedings, UMG was asked what the “certified pedophile” bar in “Not Like Us” meant. “It’s a play on certified loverboy,” UMG’s lawyer explained,[…]
We are a little more than a week into the summer. However, it has already become obvious which rapper will dominate the streams during the warmest season. Drake is dominating the list of rappers with the most daily streams. 🥇Drake – 48.1m🥈Kendrick Lamar – 27.0m🥉Travis Scott – 24.3m4. Kanye West – 21.4m5. Future – 20.6m6.[…]
Would Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love” hit the same way if it featured Jeezy, rather than her husband JAY-Z? JAY-Z didn’t think so. According to Jeezy, he was supposed to be on the 2013 track, but Hov cut him out and added himself. “I dropped the ball when I wrote my verse for ‘Drunk In Love’[…]
The Clipse’s highly anticipated album Let God Sort Em Out drops on July 11. It’s the group’s reunion album, and the first one they’ve released since 2009’s Til the Casket Drops. The tracklist for the project has just been shared, and the album is 13 songs deep with a slew of features. It’s already been[…]
Diddy just went through the trial of his life. His fate is now with the jury, who will likely rule this week. The way Michael Blackson sees it, the Bad Boy founder will walk, and he explained why on social media. “The court is in NY, Diddy is from NY, the jurors are from NY.[…]
50 Cent and Cuban Link dated on and off for years. Their relationship seems to over for good. While reflecting on her time with 50 Cent, whose net worth is listed at $60 million, she lamented how cheap he was and said they broke up after he refused to give her $10,000. Cuban Link (Jamira[…]
Yeat is a successful rapper. Perhaps more successful than you think. The 25-year-old flexed his earnings in 2025, and they are impressive. “The face I make when I make $32 million,” he claimed. Do you buy that figure? Posted In: News
Drake already responded to T-Pain saying that he should bow out of the music business, now his friend and bodyguard Chubbs is sending shots. While in a club located in Cannes, France, Chubbs recorded himself looking for the DJ and asked him to play a T-Pain song, but the DJ played Drake’s “Nokia” instead. Chubbs[…]
Flipping the script, Ja Rule has been trolling troll master 50 Cent a lot lately. Just a couple of weeks ago, Ja clowned 50 over his child’s mother, Daphne Joy, possibly being the unidentified woman who testified in Diddy’s sex trafficking trial. Then yesterday, Ja had something to say about 50 performing in Germany over the[…]
Rick Ross probably isn’t someone who should be mocking another man’s body. But Drake’s recent abs debacle gave the Bawse an opening, and he took it. Over the weekend, Drizzy foolishly posted a photo in which he exposed his stomach. Folks were quick to point out his abs didn’t match the rest of his torso.[…]
Adam22 and Sauce Walka are beefing over who makes more money in their shared side gig of adult entertainment. Speaking to the Danza Project, Walka rebuffed Adam’s claim that his porn efforts bring in more bread than Sauce’s. “He got a production studio. I got a production studio. My sh*t way bigger than his. And[…]
Last night, Drake got on Instagram and tried to get philosophical. “I’m wide awake for the nights that separate the type who get to it til they get it right from the type who just …type,” he typed. However, whatever message he was trying to convey got lost in his abs, which folks don’t believe[…]
Drake has confirmed his Iceman album will drop this year. “Iceman 2025 Snow Owl Ranch,” he posted on social. Iceman will be his first solo album since the Drake vs. Everybody summer last year. According to Drake expert Mal, it has a “bomb” on it. Do you think Iceman puts Drake back on top?
