Photo via Mancy Gant Support our efforts to keep the best music journalism in the game ad and paywall free by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Since the early 2000s, Robert Glasper has demolished preconceived ideas about jazz musicians. He’s amassed a body or work that fuses the genre’s signature syncopated rhythms […]
Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 & Too $hort — Aka Mount Westmore — Drop Their First Video Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Mount Westmore The debut single from Mount Westmore has officially been released. Four of the greatest rappers of all time are officially in a group together. Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, […]
Erykah Badu Previews ‘BADUBOTRON’ Radio Show with a Funk-Fueled Mix Music – 3 hours ago Photo by Slaven Vlasic via Getty Images. Erykah Badu spins an hour-plus of deep funk, soul, jazz, and r&b, in the debut episode of her new Sonos Radio show. Late last month, Erykah Badu announced she was joining Sonos Radio‘s […]
Photo via Getty Images/NBA Entertainment The NBA is back and so are the hoopers who wanna be rappers and vice versa. Luckily our staff of talented writers will be chronicling both for the foreseeable future as long as you show your support by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Kevin Yeung wants you […]
The 15 Best Thundercat Bass Features Music – 1 hour ago Photo Credit: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images In honor of Thundercat and his virtuosic bass-playing, Okayplayer is highlighting his 15 best bass features. Since releasing his 2011 debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse, Thundercat has grown into his own as a solo artist. His forthcoming release, […]
MF DOOM Estate Declares This Halloween is “DOOMSDAY” Music – 1 hour ago Photo by Andrew Benge/Redferns via Getty Images. The estate of MF DOOM is marking the one-year anniversary of the late rapper’s death with a benefit event in San Francisco on Halloween. Though we learned of his death on New Years Eve, MF […]
Pras On The Fugees Biggest Music Moments And Recording ‘The Score’ Music – 1 hour ago Photo Credit: Jeff Kravitz for FilmMagic In a new feature, Pras details the Fugees’ largest accomplishments and also significant music moments that stood out to him over the years as a part of the successful trio. Pras is setting […]
Where else will you find the thoroughly researched rundown of the best up-and-coming artists from the continent of Africa on a weekly basis? At the top it’s just us. Support truly independent journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa wants you to know that today is also […]
Peanut Butter Wolf Debunks The Folklore Surrounding The Creation of J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’ Music – 5 seconds ago Source: Youtube The Stones Throw chief corrects the record on a long-running myth about J Dilla’s final studio album, Donuts. 15 years after its release, J Dilla‘s magnum opus, Donuts, is still, arguably, hip-hop’s most celebrated instrumental album. […]
Photo via HBO We’re more manic excited for Succession Season 3 than Kendall is to invite Naomi to his ex-wife’s house. Show your love for our tireless staff of writers by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Abe Beame is currently looking up countries with no extradition treaty with the […]
The Rap-Up is the only weekly round-up providing you with the best rap songs you’ve yet to hear. So support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Brandon Callender wants to know who Steve Harvey’s new stylist is. Jugg Harden x Babyface Ray – “I’m The Man” Jugg Harden […]
Big Daddy Kane vs. KRS-One was the ‘Verzuz’ Battle Hip-Hop Needed Music – 8 seconds ago Photo Credit: Johnny Nunez/WireImage Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One put on a Verzuz show for the ages at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Verzuz is on a roll. On Sunday, October 17th, two of the greatest MCs of all […]
Mixtape Monday: Telemakus, QTKAS, Sylvere, IJALE, Marcus Harvey, Seany Bsta + More Music – 3 mins ago Photo Credit: Artist Tunes from Telemakus, QTKAS, Sylvere, IJALE, Marcus Harvey, Seany Bsta and more this Mixtape Monday. Telemakus delivers The New Heritage, rising collective QTKAS drops off Volume 1, Sylvere follows with EP1, IJALE is On To […]
Best Songs of The Week: ft. Liv.e, Hiatus Kaiyote, Zack Fox, and More Music – 1 hour ago Source: Youtube The Round-Up is Okayplayer’s weekly playlist of the best songs in the worlds of hip-hop and R&B. This week’s set features new music from Liv.e, Hiatus Kaiyote, Zack Fox, Roc Marciano, Bathe, and more. Scroll […]
16 New R&B, Neo-Soul & Hip-Hop Albums You Should Be Listening To (Week of October 15) Music – 2 mins ago Photo Credit: Artist This week there’s an assortment of releases from Young Thug to KIRBY. Albums from Reggie Becton, Tone Stith, and Ego Ella May also caught our attention this week. It’s been one […]
Don’t be a boar on the floor. Show your love for our tireless staff of writers by supporting Passion of the Weiss via a subscription to our Patreon. Abe Beame might not sleep for a week just to rank every Biggie song in existence or binge-watch prestige TV. Jayson Buford is the type of fan […]
Zack Fox Shares Surprise Debut Rap Album ‘shut the fuck up talking to me’ Music – 5 mins ago Source: Youtube Zack Fox recruits The Alchemist, Kenny Beats, BNYX, and more for his raucous debut album. Following a string of loose singles and guest features, Zack Fox has upped his rap game resume with the […]
TDE’s MixedByAli on Making “Human Music” with Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, & More Music – 18 mins ago With funding from Kendrick Lamar, DJ Khaled, and more, MixedByAli has launched EngineEars, a platform for engineers. Photo Credit: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy We spoke to TDE engineer MixedByAli about working with special artists […]
MixedByAli on Making “Human Music” with Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, & More Music – 6 hours ago With funding from Kendrick Lamar, DJ Khaled, and more, MixedByAli has launched EngineEars, a platform for engineers. Photo Credit: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy We spoke to engineer MixedByAli about working with special artists like Kendrick […]
Summer Walker Drops Off New Single “Ex for a Reason” Featuring City Girls’ JT Music – 50 mins ago Photo Credit: Rich Fury for Getty Images “Ex for a Reason” is the first single from Summer Walker’s upcoming album Still Over It. Summer Walker has returned to release her newest single “Ex for a Reason” […]
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. Michael McKinney absorbs more music in a week than most do in an entire calendar year. After umpteen false starts, crowds are starting to fill out festivals again. […]
Over the last couple of years, a number of social media accounts and platforms have popped up, creating spaces that spark high-level discussion centered around female rap. In October 2020, fashion and culture writer Mikeisha Vaughn was listening in on a Clubhouse room where a widely known rapper was asked his opinion about the current […]
Prince Estate Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Controversy’ with Previously Unreleased “Do Me Baby” Demo Music – 13 seconds ago Source: Warner Bros. Prince recorded the original version of “Do Me Baby” with former bandmate André Cymone in 1978. 40 years ago today, Prince released his fourth studio album, Controversy. And to toast the milestone, Warner […]
Support our efforts to keep the best music journalism in the game ad and paywall free by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. From his very first EP at the dawn of the 2010s, Montreal’s Lunice felt like a breath of fresh air, both locally and internationally. As a Montrealer, Lunice’s brash Hip […]
Watch The Beatles Fall Apart and Get Back Together in The Trailer for a New Documentary Music – 4 hours ago Source: Youtube/Disney+ The three-part documentary from Lord of The Rings director, Peter Jackson, captures the tense final days of The Beatles as the group was recording their last album. Disney+ has unveiled the first […]
The passion part of “Passion of the Weiss” is real. We mean it. Donate on Patreon. Jordan Ryan Pedersen is coming down from Sunday morning. I was Christian until I was 30. But no, this is not one of those “that person who loves hip-hop and Bernie Sanders on the internet actually grew up evangelical” […]
Support our efforts to keep the best music journalism in the game ad and paywall free by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Think of all the random rappers who did one verse on an east coast album in the ’90s. How many turned that verse into a career spanning three decades? Twenty-six […]
Hear Kanye West and J Dilla Collide on a Stellar Mash-Up Mixtape Music – 24 hours ago Source: Youtube A new mash-up project from Cameron Smiley blends a batch of classic and obscure J Dilla instrumentals with bars from Kanye West’s first three albums. Despite their shared Midwestern origins, overlapping periods of early work, and […]
The Blackfishing Criticism of Jesy Nelson and Nicki Minaj’s “Boyz” Video Music, News – 24 hours ago Photo Credit: YouTube Jesy Nelson was accused of Blackfishing following the release of her new video “Boyz” featuring Nicki Minaj. After it dropped, she publicly apologized, but at the moment, the video has raked in over 7 million […]
Where else will you find the thoroughly researched rundown of the best up-and-coming artists from the continent of Africa on a weekly basis? At the top it’s just us. Support truly independent journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa wants you to know that today is also […]