Photo by Eric Coleman Don’t put your chips on the worst bet. Support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Tracy Kawalik‘s pen is poison like BBD’s first cassette. A couple years ago, Madlib was waxing lyrical about Madvillainy in an interview for Bonafide magazine when DOOM crashed into the same London pub. […]
Please support our efforts to bring you the most notable rap music every week by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Harley Geffner put on a big pot of coffee for the Knicks game. Bandgang Masoe featuring The Godfather & OnFully – “Rest in Piss” Detroit’s Bandgang Masoe, The Godfather, and OnFully conjure […]
Young rising urban artist from Virginia, Losk33 collaborated with a respected name in the hip-hop industry, Foogiano on a new joint, “Lord Have Mercy.” The track has some elements of “Testimonial Turnup,” a genre by which Losk33 describes his rapping style when releasing solo. Both artists have their separate careers flourishing, and they brought the […]
Mixtape Monday: jaH-Monte, Vesa Beats, K.A.A.N, GODTET, Eddou XL + More Music – 1 day ago Photo Credit: Artist jaH-Monte, Vesa Beats, K.A.A.N, GODTET, Eddou XL and more make waves this Mixtape Monday. jaH-Monte OF MELENATED PEOPLE is up top with SEVENTY-FIFTH & AMSTERDAM SIDE B, Vesa Beats drops Cold Waves, K.A.A.N. makes the cut […]
Watch Rage Against The Machine’s Documentary on The Myth of Whiteness Music – 2 days ago (Photo by Ethan Miller via Getty Images) The politically-charged band teams with The Ummah Chroma on a powerful documentary short on the invention of whiteness. Never ones to let fascism go unchecked, Rage Against The Machine has released a […]
In Hip-Hop and Beyond: Sade [Playlist] Music – 3 days ago Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images Featuring deep cuts and classics from Mobb Deep, Black Star, MF DOOM, J Dilla, Freddie Gibbs, Snoop Dogg, and so many more. Unlike the countless r&b acts of her generation who, out of the gate, flooded the market with […]
Best Songs of The Week: ft. Smoke DZA, DJ Muggs, and More [Playlist] Music – 4 days ago LONG BEACH, CA – APRIL 28: Rapper Smoke DZA performs onstage during the Smokers Club Festival at The Queen Mary on April 28, 2018 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) The Round-Up playlist is […]
MF DOOM, Kendrick Lamar Highlight Joe Biden Official Inauguration Playlist Music – 4 days ago Photo Credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images The Joe Biden administration teamed up with Issa Rae and DJ D-Nice for the playlist. Joe Biden will officially be sworn in as America’s 46th President next week, and on Friday he dropped […]
10 New Albums You Should Be Listening To (Week of January 15th) Music – 4 days ago Photo Credit: Guarionex Rodriguez Jr. Here’s the latest weekly round-up of new albums. In an ever-changing music industry, new names are popping up on a daily basis. We here at Okayplayer know it can be tiring trying to […]
Read an early excerpt of the oral history of the classic J Dilla debut, Welcome 2 Detroit, written by John Vanderpuije. The oral history will be included in the Welcome 2 Detroit 20-year box set. Next month will be the 20th anniversary of Welcome 2 Detroit, legendary producer J Dilla’s masterful debut. To celebrate the occasion, […]
Chris Rock Once Agreed With MC Serch’s Wife That A Tribe Called Quest “Doesn’t Hold Up” Music – 4 days ago Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Movement Voter Project In a recent appearance on MC Serch’s podcast series, Chris Rock talked about how he had a record deal as an MC in the ’80s, […]
Photo by Jim Dyson Don’t expect to see the recipe, unless you subscribe to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. David Ma rocks grammar like the kumbaya. Finding out DOOM passed two months prior felt especially cruel. Unbeknownst to us, the planet was already missing one of its greats, a once-in-a-lifetime force who existed in […]
Ariana Grande Drops “34+35 (Remix)” Ft. Megan Thee Stallion & Doja Cat Music – 4 days ago Photo Credit: Republic Records The remix arrived late on Thursday night with unabashedly sexy verses by Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion. Ariana Grande shook things up a bit when she dropped her “34+35 (Remix)” featuring Megan Thee […]
Please support our tireless chronicling of hip-hop culture by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Jameson Draper runs all his interviews through a vocal processor. The legacy of Memphis hip-hop will never die as long as it continues to mutate into stranger and stranger online forms. With their dark atmospheric raps, Three 6 […]
You Can Now Listen to Jungle Brothers’ Lost Album ‘Crazy Wisdom Masters’ on Bandcamp Music – 5 days ago Photo Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images The previously-unreleased Jungle Brothers album will be available exclusively to Bandcamp subscribers. In the early 1990s, New York rap trio Jungle Brothers were primed to release their third album on Warner […]
Photo courtesy of The Arches It’s like we’re eating watermelon, we stay spitting new seeds. Please support the most influential rap blog still around by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Don’t make Sun-Ui Yum have to get to cutting like truancy. The story of MF DOOM is a tragedy and triumph worthy […]
In 2018, before he was a household name, DaBaby shot and killed a man during a dispute in a Huntersville, North Carolina Walmart. Prosecutors decided not to charge DaBaby in the death of 19-year-old Jalyn Domonique Craig, agreeing with DaBaby that it was self-defense since Craig had flashed a gun at him while he shopped […]
Photo courtesy of The Arches Please support that gives you more zip than ZZ Top by supporting Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. If Dean Van Nguyen needed his meat burned, he’d go to Sizzler. Orchestral strings blow through ‘’I Wonder” like a freezing breeze in bleak winter. You picture MF DOOM henchman Hassan Chop […]
D’Angelo Resurfaces with a Psychedelic Soul Masterclass Music – 6 days ago Photo Credit: FilmMagic/FilmMagic D’Angelo spins an eclectic set and details his first encounters with Prince, George Clinton, and more, in the debut of his new Sonos radio channel. D’Angelo reemerged today to launch his new Sonos Radio channel, Feverish Fantazmagoria, with an entrancing hour-long DJ […]
Photo by Pete Nice Serving up gas face victims since 2005. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Chris Daly is just ace in the hole. As the 80s wrapped up, hip-hop started to evolve from a hermetic sub-culture into the pop mainstream, which for a white kid in the Atlantic […]
Photo by Kmeron It’s the beat, we hear it in our sleep sometimes. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Nitish Pahwa needs to get her some skips before she catch the monkey pox. Like many of MF DOOM’s greatest songs, “Vomitspit,” the penultimate track of his oddball masterpiece MM…FOOD, didn’t […]
Rain, Hail, Sleet Or Snow Won’t Stop Ashanti & Keyshia Cole’s Rescheduled ‘Verzuz’ Battle Music – 6 days ago (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage via Getty Images) The R&B battle between the two talents is set for Thursday, January 21. Following two attempts at rescheduling the Verzuz battle between Keyshia Cole and Ashanti, the event has […]
We spoke with Dejhare (pronounced deɪ-Jhar), who is first and foremost a dreamer. She loves the idea of using music as a canvas on which to draw our life stories and on which to share happiness, the hopes, and the frustrations of our shared humanity. Using her experiences, she paints a picture of the dreams, […]
Please help keep our radiators running by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. “Bro, I do not know when I’m gonna make a full rap album where I’m just rapping on every song again,” Pink Siifu declared earlier this year, following the release of his punk-noise album NEGRO, where he traded the idyllic […]
We caught up with Blxst who spoke about his creative process, how fatherhood changed him, and what he has planned for 2021. Blxst is always in the kitchen. The rising hip-hop and R&B artist entered lockdown in March 2020 — like the rest of us — and emerged with a meal to serve. But it […]
Photo by Kmeron Got more sermons than the church got ooh lords. Please support the congregation of Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. When Evan McGarvey got the mic, you don’t go next. It’s under two minutes and in the second spot on a breakthrough album: if it’s shaped like a single […]
Photo by Kmeron Raw with the pen and on the mic, off the heeza. Please support the illest bars by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Even if Gabe Nandez had a pot, he’d still piss on the sidewalk. Aside from the production and wizard-level acrobatic bar work on this track, the fact […]
Photo by Kmeron We came to wake you up out the deep sleeper. Please support the ring generals at Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Rhys Langston been rhyming longer than Sigmund the sea creature. Do not resist the urge to bemoan the easiness of pre-fab sound packs, YouTube-search sample rips, and […]
Thank Erica Banks for the “Buss It” Challenge, the Latest Viral TikTok Trend Music – 1 week ago Erica Banks’ song “Buss It” originally dropped in June 2020. But the track started to catch on with social media users at the top of 2021. Photo Credit: Erica Banks “Buss It” video Erica Banks shares her […]
From Lupe Fiasco to Open Mike Eagle, Rappers Have Been Honoring MF DOOM with Tribute Freestyles Music – 1 week ago Photo Credit: Jim Dyson/Redferns In the wake of the untimely passing of MF DOOM, rappers have begun sharing their audio tributes to the masked villain. On New Year’s Eve, the hip-hop community was shattered […]