Noname Calls Off ‘Factory Baby’ Album: “I’m Not Sure If I’ll Ever Make Music Again” Music – 44 seconds ago Photo by Christian Hjorth for Gonzales Photo/PYMCA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Noname announced Factory Baby, what would have been her third studio album, in February of this year. Earlier this year, Noname announced her third studio […]
Mixtape Monday: Al.Divino, J.U.S, killer kane, MJC, Fatboyshaun x TROX + More Music – 42 mins ago Photo Credit: Artist Dig new music from Al.Divino, J.U.S, killer kane, MJC, Fatboyshaun x TROX and more this Mixtape Monday. Al.Divino spends Two Nights In Marrakesh, J.U.S drops GoFundMe Corvette, killer kane delivers shark repellent and MJC is […]
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. Harley Geffner wants to know why Remble is so opposed to fighting. NBA YoungBoy – “Heart & Soul” As villifed as YoungBoy […]
Photo via HBO 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. Jayson Buford will never trust a plate of Buffalo mozzarella again. Abe Beame is a good person and better than you. “You’ve won, because […]
Best Songs of The Week: ft. SZA, Thundercat, and More Music – 25 mins 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 SZA, Thundercat, Your Old Droog, Tierra Whack, Boldy James, and more. Scroll through selections […]
First Look Friday: Madison Calley is the Black Harpist Reimagining Your Favorite R&B Songs Music – 57 mins ago It’s Madison Calley’s covers of popular pop and R&B songs that have landed her appearances at The Grammys and Latin Grammys and help with amassing over 500k followers on Instagram. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Madison Calley […]
15 New Hip-Hop & R&B Albums You Should Be Listening To (Week of December 3) Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Flo Ngala Tierra Whack, Khalid, LPB Poody, Ama Lou, EST Gee, and more make up this week’s best new albums. Once again it’s New Music Friday, and that means we’ve returned to tally […]
Thundercat Floats onto The ‘Insecure’ Soundtrack with “Satellite” Music – 4 hours ago Photo by Allen J. Schaben for Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Thundercat is joined by Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi on his contribution to the soundtrack for the final season of Insecure. The soundtrack for the fifth and final season of Insecure is […]
25 Years of Bad Blood Boiled Over During Bone Thugs-n-Harmony & Three 6 Mafia’s ‘Verzuz’ Battle Music – 3 days ago Photo Credit: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images Bone Thugs-n-Harmony faced off against Three 6 Mafia in the latest Verzuz. The matchup featured the first physical altercation in Verzuz’s history. Back in the ’90s, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and […]
SZA Commences Sad Girl Season With New Single “I Hate U” Music – 5 hours ago Photo Credit: Troy Montes for Okayplayer SZA releases her newest single “I Hate U” after she initially released and deleted it back in August. Remember that SZA song “I Hate U” that was released on her secret SoundCloud and […]
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. Chris Mitchell stands and eats with the wedding photographers. A quarter century ago last month, I left the crib and popped a dubbed copy of Hell On Earth […]
Tierra Whack Drops Surprise Three-Track ‘Rap?’ EP Music – 6 mins ago Source: Youtube Tierra Whack sneaks out an abbreviated project featuring three new songs. Following a year of releasing one-offs and loose singles, Tierra Whack has reemerged with a glimpse at what may be to come. Today, the Philly rapper dropped Rap?, a surprise EP […]
Watch a Rare Video of Stones Throw Records’ Epic 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival Takeover Music – 30 mins ago Photo by: PYMCA for Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A grainy and distorted video of J Dilla, Madlib, Yasiin Bey, J. Rocc, and Peanut Butter Wolf’s full set from Montreux Jazz Festival has surfaced. Circulated […]
Ralph McDaniels on the 10 Year Journey it Took To Get His ‘Video Music Box’ Documentary Made Music – 37 mins ago Directed by Nas, the Video Music Box documentary, You’re Watching Video Music Box, provides an in-depth look into the creation of hip-hop’s first public television program. Photo credit: Courtesy of Showtime. We sat […]
Raekwon Says RZA Turned Down A Wu-Tang Biopic Backed By Leonardo DiCaprio Music – 35 seconds ago Photo Credit: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns In an excerpt from his new memoir, From Staircase to Stage, Raekwon recalled how a Wu biopic backed by the famous actor almost came to fruition — until RZA decided not to move forward with […]
Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. In the mid-90’s while L.A. gained national attention for their G-funk innovations, Bay Area rappers were crafting their own sonic dialect that would eventually come to be known as Mob Music. It was a sound equally heavy with bass but less […]
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. As the days get shorter and the air gets crisper, it’s tempting […]
Support real, independent music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. In the mid-90’s while L.A. gained national attention for their G-funk innovations, Bay Area rappers were crafting their own sonic dialect that would eventually come to be known as Mobb Music. It was a sound equally heavy with bass but less […]
The Smokin Grooves Festival Celebrates the Past, Present & Future of Neo-Soul Music – 47 mins ago Photo Credit: Jim Bennett/FilmMagic Erykah Badu, Nas, and The Roots, Thundercat, and more will be performing at the Smokin Grooves Festival. It’s a good time to be a neo-soul lover. On Tuesday, November 30th, the Smokin Grooves Festival […]
De La Soul tends to get left out of the best-ever conversation — especially alongside their fellow Native Tongue members A Tribe Called Quest — despite having a comparable, if not superior, career. De La Soul’s catalog is among the most coveted and consistent collections of albums in hip-hop history. And yet, the trio from Long Island […]
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 is still skeptical of NFTs, and that’s a […]
Virgil Abloh Eulogies Pour in From Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Drake, and More Music – 3 mins ago Photo by Arturo Holmes for MG21 via Getty Images. Titans of music, fashion, and their various intersections pay tribute to trailblazing Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton creative director, Virgil Abloh. Not even 24 hours after the world […]
Ari Lennox Arrested at Amsterdam Airport, Claims She was Racially Profiled by Airline Music – 2 hours ago Photo by Paras Griffin via Getty Images. Dutch military police arrested Ari Lennox at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Monday morning. Ari Lennox is being detained in Amsterdam following an altercation with an airline attendant at the city’s […]
Mixtape Monday: R.A.P. Ferreira, Defcee x Messiah Musik, Career Crooks, Lakim x BoomBaptist, Y.O.D. + More Music – 3 hours ago Photo Credit: Artist R.A.P. Ferreira, Defcee x Messiah Musik, Career Crooks, Lakim x BoomBaptist, Y.O.D. and more this Mixtape Monday. R.A.P. Ferreira is up first with the Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures, Defcee x […]
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 hates learning about the white people side of the internet. Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon – “Oh Nah, We Locked Boo” In […]
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7 New Hip-Hop & R&B Albums You Should Be Listening To (Week of November 26) Music – 4 mins ago Photo Credit: Joegraphy This is the week the underground gets to eat. The best new hip-hop and R&B albums of the week features Remedy, Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, R.A.P. Ferreira, and more. It’s a holiday weekend, […]
Record Store Day 2021 Essentials: Black Friday Edition Music – 8 mins ago Photo by Mick Haupt via Unsplash. A guide to this year’s Record Store Day releases, featuring crucial compilations of hazed-out funk and soul rarites, bulked-up anniversary editions of classics, requisite reissues, revived live performances, and so much more. Record Store Day returns […]
If you care about independent journalism and want the best playlists around, subscribe to the POW Patreon. Bring William Hutson some backwoods and a cup of ice. Trying not to read or tweet too much about the Rittenhouse verdict the other day, I started playing whatever Young Dolph tracks I’d thrown onto playlists or DJ’d […]
Dave Chappelle Refuses to Stop Making Transphobic Jokes Music – 28 seconds ago Photo by Kevin Mazur for FF via Getty Images. At a show in Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle told the crowd his truce with the LGBTQ community was only in effect when the cameras are on. For a comedian who claimed his […]