Image via Fetty P Franklin/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 festive, with or without the festival. I planned on using this opener to recap Rhyme […]

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Image via Sheff G/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 if Project T-Pain is 03 Greedo’s best album? [embedded content] [embedded content] In a […]

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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. [embedded content] [embedded content] Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise is an anime from 1987 about an army […]

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Image via @_detigre / Rhys Langston/ 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. Kevin Crandall […]

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Image via Enphamus/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 collecting signatures. For what, he does not know. [embedded content] [embedded content] In his Odd Future past […]

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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 June, plenty of the world’s finest selectors offered material to beat […]

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Image via DB.Boutabag/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 is pitching on three days rest. [embedded content] [embedded content] Over the last dozen years, the Vancouver-raised, Compton-realized […]

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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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 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. People think Copper Green […]

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Photo by Michelle Yoon 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. Michael McKinney understands the […]

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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. Son Raw took a shot of henny now […]

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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. Skrilla joins Jeff Weiss, Rosecrans […]

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Image via Tadoe/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 seeing something else in these Georgia O’Keefe portraits. [embedded content] [embedded content] Live from the narrowest and […]

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Image via DB.Boutabag/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 has acquired Yamashita’s gold (Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss, out now and available here). On what […]

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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. G Perico joins Jeff Weiss, […]

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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 May, plenty of the world’s finest selectors turned in critical sessions. […]

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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. Cuco joins Jeff Weiss, Rosecrans […]

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Image via @thankyousnapgod 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. [embedded content] [embedded content] I’ve always been […]

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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, […]

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Image via @_stimvlate / Peysoh/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 is pitching on three days rest. [embedded content] [embedded content] Slim400 embodied West Coast gangsta rap. […]

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