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Image via Lil Xelly/Instagram 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 afraid of audiobooks. Marcell Hebron was stolen from the world last Friday, reportedly the victim of […]
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Image via Something Something Brax/Instagram 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. “It’s 6:16 in LA somewhere,” Donald Morrison says right before pushing his ideological enemy in front of a […]
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Image via Paco Panama/Instagram 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 a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. [embedded content] [embedded content] Gratuitous 2025 Resolution: five […]
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POW is a website with few ads. We don’t do sponcon, we don’t do clickbait, we don’t have any corporate overlords. This list that you’re about to read is a labor of love, inasmuch as anything can be a labor of love in late capitalism. Even labors of love come at the significant cost of […]
Image 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.” After spending a good chunk of the year digging through Soundcloud, Boomkat, […]
Image via Nef The Pharaoh/Instagram 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 what they even do in the Met Gala. At the end of every […]
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Image via DW FLAME/Instagram 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 didn’t pay for parking. [embedded content] [embedded content] The Flint rap revivalist and First-Team All-World Shit Talker […]
Book Cover via Adreeonah Toro Support truly independent journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. The following is an excerpt from Donna-Claire‘s upcoming book, CRYBABY: The Artists Who Shaped Emo Rap, out on January 25th, 2025, courtesy of Permuted Press. Purchase CRYBABY: The Artists Who Shaped Emo Rap here. By the mid-2010s, […]
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Image via YoungThreat/Instagram 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 was accused of listening to “football Cali rap” on his Spotify Wrapped this year, and it nearly sent […]
Image 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 November, plenty of DJs offered up material for the head-trippers and […]
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Support truly independent journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. The following is an excerpt from Jaap van der Doelen‘s new book, KILL YOUR MASTERS: Run The Jewels and the World That Made Them, out now, courtesy of UGA Press. Purchase KILL YOUR MASTERS: Run The Jewels and the World That Made […]
Image via Mudbaby Ru/Instagram 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 what they even do in the Met Gala. [embedded content] [embedded content] In August […]
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Image via OTM/Instagram 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 won’t go near your green bean casserole. GNX — the sixth Kendrick Lamar studio album, delivered in a […]