Wiki, Terry Presume, Navy Blue, Eddie Kaine, Moor Mother, Pink Siifu and more are The Best of 2021. The 2021 year-end retrospective features 20 of the best projects to make the cut this year. Selected from a cache of top tier releases, this retrospective is hard-hitting, experimental and just plain ill. Join me in revisiting […]
POW is a website without ads. We donāt do sponcon, we donāt do clickbait, we donāt have any corporate overlords. This list that youāre 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. […]
These Were the Top Selling Rap Albums of 2021 Music – 46 mins ago Photo Credit: Jim Bennett for Austin City Limits Festival via FilmMagic Drakeās Certified Lover Boy was the best selling rap album of 2021. Doja Cat, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, and more also had really big years. Drakeās reign wonāt let up. […]
Tyler, the Creator Denies Reports Heās Changing His Name āAre You Stupid?ā Music – 1 hour ago Photo Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin for 10th Annual LACMA Art+Film Gala via FilmMagic After a new interview with Fast Company where he spoke about his name, it was alleged that the rapper wanted to change his moniker as āTyler, the […]
Vinyl Had Its Highest Sales In 30 Years Last Week Music – 4 days ago Photo Credit: Richard Newstead for The Image Bank With over two million vinyl LPs sold, the week ending December 23rd marks the highest-selling week for vinyl since 1991. Vinyl is back in style. Nearly a month after Adele caused a massive […]
We went into the heart of five festivals in 2021 to document how music festivals adjusted to the new pandemic reality. One thing was abundantly clear: the pandemic was tolerated, not feared. Nothing in music was as fundamentally devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic as much as live music. Live entertainment trade publication Pollstar estimated the […]
POW is a website without ads. We donāt do sponcon, we donāt do clickbait, we donāt have any corporate overlords. This list that youāre 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. […]
DMX Recorded An Unreleased Two Disc Gospel Album in 2008 Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Kevin Winter for Live Nation via Getty Images Two years after the release of his 2006 album Year of the Dogā¦ Again, DMX recorded an unreleased gospel album while living in Arizona. Dark Man X lives on. In a […]
Gen-Z is Learning About De La Soul Due to āSpider-Man: No Way Homeā Music – 8 mins ago Photo Credit: Paul Natkin Spider-Man: No Way Home closes with De La Soulās āThe Magic Numberā from 3 Feet High and Rising. To Spidey fanatics dismay, De La Soulās full catalog isnāt available on streaming platforms. Spider-Man: No […]
16 years of independent rap journalism with no end in sight. Keep it that way by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Leonel wants food and traveling journalism for the working class. āIf the audience keeps clapping, Chente will keep singingā, a triumphant Vicente FernĆ”ndez used to spout at the […]
Madonna Comes For Tory Lanez For āIllegal Usageā of ā80s Hit Music – 1 hour ago Photo Credit: Jason Koerner for Rolling Loud Miami 2021 via Getty Images Madonna comes for Tory Lanez for sampling her 1985 hit āInto the Groove.ā Tory Lanez wonāt be catching a break any time soon. On his song āPlutoās […]
Issa Rae on Working in the Music Industry: āItāsā¦ the Worst Industry Iāve Ever Come Acrossā Music – 2 hours ago Photo Credit: Amy Sussman for The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures via Getty Images In a post-Insecure finale interview with Los Angeles Times, Issa Rae breaks her silence on hidden dangers of the music industry. Issa […]
Photo courtesy of Jesse Crankson. Please support our efforts to give you the best writing about the worldās best music by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Sam Ribakoff is campaigning to be the resident DJ of The Watts Coffee House, but you have to help save the landmark first. 25. Leroy ā […]
Frank Ocean Unpacks His Grief in New 9 Minute Track Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art via Getty Images Frank Ocean returned to his Apple Music 1 show on Christmas with a surprise nine-minute track. Frank Ocean heard that fans have been restless for new music […]
Mixtape Monday: Vic Spencer, Ohbliv, Lord Juco, Thelonious Martin, LE$ + More Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Artist Source: Artist New music from Vic Spencer, Ohbliv, Lord Juco, Thelonious Martin, LE$ and more this Mixtape Monday. Vic Spencer drops Spencer for Higher 4 with Sonnyjim, Ohbliv files another LewseJoint, Lord Juco drops SHADOWS […]
Nas & Hit-Boy Drop New Project āMagic,ā Feat. DJ Premier & A$AP Rocky Music – 2 hours ago Photo Credit: Nas Nas and Hit-Boy have teamed up for a new project called āMagic.ā The EP, which is their third together, features DJ Premier and A$AP Rocky. Christmas has come early this year. Nas and Hit-Boy have […]
Pop this year was defined ā and redefined ā by Black women whoāve been instrumental in transforming the sonic and aesthetic blueprint of the genre This year has been a masterclass in Black women in pop music reimagining the future ā and actively reshaping the present ā for themselves in the genre. A space that […]
Nas is Dropping a Surprise New Project Feat. DJ Premier & A$AP Rocky Music – 23 mins ago Photo Credit: Nas Their third collaborative effort in over a year after Kingās Disease I and II, Nas and Hit-Boy reconvene for surprise album Magic. Christmas will come early this year. Nas and Hit-Boy have announced a new […]
Nas on the Messaging Around āHip Hop Is Deadā: āI Missed the Mark By Milesā Music – 2 hours ago Photo Credit: Johnny Louis for Waffle & Yankee Fitted Fest via Getty Images On a new episode of the Spotify podcast The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip Hop, Nas spoke about the intention behind his […]
Our list of the best albums of 2021 features everything from a mid-career masterpiece that dropped in January to a modern-day classic that released in November. From Drake to Adele to Kanye West, 2021 was the year of the powerhouse album. These were the albums that when they dropped the world stopped. And any real […]
5 Things We Learned From JAY-Zās Epic Twitter Spaces Conversation Music – 4 mins ago Photo: Kevin Kane for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame via Getty Images On Tuesday night, JAY-Z took to Twitter Spaces to talk Verzuz, Lil Mama, and more. JAY-Z took a break from the holiday festivities to join āEmpire […]
Photo by Lee Spielman No one at this site has a Chinchilla coat. Please help make that a reality by donating to the Patreon. In light of the tragic passing of Drakeo The Ruler, POW will be revisiting some of his greatest hits on this website. This article was originally posted December 4, 2020. The […]
In light of the tragic passing of Drakeo The Ruler, POW will be revisiting some of his greatest hits on this website. This article was originally posted on March 3, 2020 by the late, great Lucas Foster. Lucas Foster hopes you did or will participate in your stateās primary election. Two years removed from what […]
With the holidays on the horizon, we combed through demos, auctions, and listings, to find the vintage synthesizers that are genuinely attainable and actually sound good. When it comes to finding the right piece of hardware for a home music studio, āvintageā and āaffordableā are descriptors rarely occupying the same spaces. This is particularly true […]
This website is user-supported. Any donation is immensely appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/passionweiss In light of the tragic passing of Drakeo The Ruler, POW will be revisiting some of his greatest hits on this website. This article was originally posted on December 18, 2018. Cold Devil is a five mic masterpiece, but donāt act like Drakeo the Ruler recently […]
Mariah Careyās Holiday Classic āAll I Want for Christmas Is Youā is the No. 1 Song (Again) Music – 10 seconds ago Photo Credit: Dia Dipasupil for the Empire State Building via Getty Images Mariah Careyās 1994 classic āAll I Want for Christmas Is Youā becomes the first song in Billboard Hot 100 history to […]
In light of the tragic passing of Drakeo The Ruler, POW will be revisiting some of his greatest hits on this website. This article was originally posted on August 27, 2018. Drakeo isnāt a rapper. He is the rapper. Thatās what heās told his lawyer. Thatās what he told me over the phone on Saturday. […]
In light of the tragic passing of Drakeo The Ruler, POW will be revisiting some of his greatest hits on this website. This article was originally posted on April 7, 2018. āI donāt know nothinā ābout no murders I donāt know nothinā ābout no killers The only thing I know is what I know and […]
Top 10 Defining Moments in Too $hortās Legendary Career Music – 2 hours ago Too $hortās trademark high-pitched voice and plainspoken delivery makes his music accessible to people worldwide. Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Fans have come to appreciate Too $hort as more than the narrator of inappropriate freaky tales but also as a […]
The 7 Best Leonard āHubā Hubbard Bass Lines For The Roots Music – 6 mins ago Photo Credit: Paul Bergen/Redferns A highlighting of the best bass lines Leonard āHubā Hubbard came up with during his time with The Roots amid his passing. Leonard āHubā Hubbard, The Rootsā longtime bassist from 1992 to 2007, passed away […]