Mixtape Monday: Kev Brown x J Scienide, Big Kahuna OG x Monday Night, Corey Bernhard x The Bul Bey + More Music – 1 week ago Photo Credit: Artist Dig tunes from Kev Brown x J Scienide, Big Kahuna OG x Monday Night, Corey Bernhard x The Bul Bey and more this Mixtape Monday. Kev […]
Photo by Mathies Jerpersen We crashed the barbecue like Riddick at the Garden. Please support your favorite rap writer collective by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Grip Grand once took his fronts out and lost them shits. I first heard MF DOOM’s “Dead Bent”—the 12-inch version, the good one—on a gray Oregon […]
Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is The Highest Certified Song Ever Music – 1 week ago Source: Youtube Both Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus took to Twitter Saturday night to celebrate the milestone. Nearly two years after its release, Lil Nas X‘s breakout single is, somehow, still setting records. According to Billboard, the […]
Photo by Kmeron We channel the cosmos here. Please support the highest of highly regarded rap blogs by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Nate Patrin is in the air everywhere, taking over. Not every MC who debuted in the ’80s gets the benefit of recency bias. Ecstasy passes, and Whodini get memorialized […]
Please support the stewards of hip-hop culture online by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Peace, but why call Dart Adams the money guy? One of our Christmas gifts in 1990 was finally getting cable; it gave us access to ESPN, TNT, TBS, SportsChannel, MTV, and BET. Since it was the last week […]
“Kevin Durant face-palm. #gomavs #mffl 23 pt lead.” by rondostar is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 From Seattle to Oklahoma City to the Bay Area to Brooklyn, please support some of the best writing in America by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Despite all his accolades, Abe Beame has never been the […]
Photo courtesy of The Arches It’s the beat, we hear it in our sleep sometimes. Please help keep our sample fodder flush by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. In school, Evan Nabavian kept a doo-rag in his bag lunch. Peel back a layer on the 90s hip-hop canon and you’ll discover the […]
Photo by Joschka Bauer We slay youths when it comes to who’s more cleverer. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Julian Brimmers spits ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull. At the moment, I don’t think I have it in me to add anything deep and substantial to the plethora of personal […]
Photo by Kmeron We only play the games that we win at. Please support your perennial Street Pulitzer nominees by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Rollie Pemberton makes rap music as Cadence Weapon. He’s at where your sister went. Following the December 31st announcement of his death, I’ve seen more than one […]
Photo By Eric Coleman Our writing hands are so fast we could outspin Flash. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Abe Beame used to show up to class with Moet in a flask. Whether you’re listening to it for the first time or the 500th time, Madvillainy can be a disorienting […]
We keep a pen like fiends keep pipes with them. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Blockhead is nasty like the old time Old No. 7. I am not a fan of critical absolutes. When someone asks me to list my top five albums or movies, I get a rush […]
Your source for the best rap music every week. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Harley Geffner holds the mic and your attention like two swords. Thirsty P featuring Rio Da Yung OG – “Glass Red” Thirsty P’s gravelly flow is so hypnotic that I barely registered a single word […]
Photo by Adam Bhala Lough We came through raw like the elements. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Adam Bhala Lough is an acclaimed filmmaker. His cinematic efforts have appeared numerous times at Sundance, he’s been nominated for a Spirit Award for his writing, and “Filmmaker Magazine” named him one of the […]
From Seattle to Oklahoma City to the Bay Area to Brooklyn, please support some of the best writing in America by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Despite all his accolades, Abe Beame has never been the target of a Lil B curse. When I was in college, I embarked on something of […]
Art by Nathan Moya-Mendez POW is a website without 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 […]
POW is a website without 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 time. […]
Hello Gabriela! Welcome to RealStreetRadio! Can you introduce yourself to our readers? Hey! Thank you so much for this opportunity. I’m Gabriela. I’m a 20 year old Latina R&B/Pop singer and songwriter. I was born and raised in Mcallen, Texas but am currently based out of Nashville, Tennessee to professionally pursue a music career. I’ve […]
Please support our collective of hip-hop scholars by subscribing to our Patreon. A few days ago, my car was broken into about 30 feet from my front door here in South Philadelphia. It’s a common situation — local junkies prowl the streets with a device (which is legal) that clones the automatic lock device hanging […]
Havoc and Flee Lord dedicate ten tracks to the late Mobb member. On Monday, Havoc released his new collaboration with Mobb Deep affiliate Flee Lord, In the Name of Prodigy. The ten-track project is (obviously) dedicated to the late Albert “Prodigy” Johnson and features Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Conway the Machine, and more. “P is smiling down […]
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The two have gone back and forth since Cupcakke dropped her “How to Rob” remix. Earlier this week, Chicago MC Cupcakke took a page out of 50 Cent’s book and remade “How to Rob,” where she (somewhat jokingly) sent shots at dozens of artists in the rap game, including upcoming Atlanta artist Sukihana. Almost immediately […]
The Round-Up playlist is Okayplayer’s weekly haul of the best songs in the worlds of hip-hop and R&B. This week’s set features new music from Madlib, Conway The Machine, DJ Muggs, cupcakKe, Little Dragon, and more. Scroll through selections from our latest sequence below and subscribe to Okayplayer’s Spotify channel today. Rigz and Futurewave – “Sheridan […]
The best new albums of this week include projects from legends, new guns, and quality veterans. We’re going to sound a bit redundant here, but holy shit a lot of new music dropped today. It is New Music Friday and unless you have hours of free time, it’s almost impossible to wade through all the […]
The new Goldlink track appears on Global Citizen’s Stand Up compilation. On Friday, DMV natives Goldlink and Ari Lennox teamed up to cover Fela Kuti’s 1977 track “Sorrow, Tears, and Blood.” The track was produced by Raphael Saadiq as part of Global Citizen’s Stand Up compilation album, which Saadiq executive produced. Stream the track below. “It was an […]
Moor Mother x billy woods, WateRR x Dirty Diggs, Ohbliv, Nation GVNG and more deliver this Mixtape Monday. Moor Mother and billy woods are up first with BRASS, WateRR teams with Dirty Diggs for Wizard Of The Crystal 2, Ohbliv serves up Spirit Medicine and Nation GVNG drops their self-titled album. DJ Suspect follows with […]
Please support this thing of ours by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Only Oumar Saleh knows what happened to the Russian. Late in the first season of The Sopranos, we get introduced to rap mogul Massive Genius in “A Hit is a Hit.” Throughout the episode, Genius butts heads with Hesh Rabkin […]
Method Man recently joined the Jemele Hill is Unbothered podcast. On the latest episode of Spotify’s “Jemele Hill is Unbothered” podcast, legendary rapper and actor Method Man joined Jemele Hill to talk his role in the new Power Book II: Ghost series, his love for comic books, Wu-Tang Clan and more. Stream the full episode below. The […]
Pharrell spoke about working with legendary artists on the latest episode of Drink Champs. On the latest episode of N.O.R.E.’s Drink Champs, legendary producer Pharrell Williams stopped by to talk his illustrious career. The two spoke about working with Snoop Dogg, why he initially didn’t understand the appeal of “Beautiful,” and more. Stream the full episode […]
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Please support the site that keeps you flush with new rap music every Monday. Please subscribe to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Brandon Callender keeps his mouth shut like he’s Shkreli. Tisakorean – “HOUSEPARTY (BigMac)” Tisakorean might be the first rapper to ever argue with someone on a money phone. He also might be […]