Review: The Game Drags All of 2015 Rap Down With Him on ‘The Documentary 2′
The Game’s stock has been steadily plummeting since he released his highly-acclaimed debut, The Documentary, in 2005 with heavy backing from the biggest rap star on the planet at the time, 50 Cent, and...
View ArticleReview: GoldLink Explains It All on ‘And After That, We Didn’t Talk’
GoldLink is probably one of the more charismatic genre-benders in rap right now, a danceable force with a chameleonic, often explosive flow that helped cover up some gaps in his writing on 2014's...
View ArticleReview: Anderson .Paak More Than Makes Up for Lost Time on ‘Malibu’
Time has always been of the essence for Brandon Paak Anderson, now just Anderson .Paak, a singer-rapper from Oxnard, California who learned to make the most of every moment at a young age. His father...
View ArticleReview: Wiz Khalifa Substantiates Kanye’s Claims and Little Else on ‘Khalifa’
During a Twitter tirade in defense of Kim Kardashian — fallout from a misinterpreted tweet from Wiz Khalifa — Kanye West chucked a molotov cocktail of truth at the Taylor Gang rapper’s entire...
View ArticleReview: A$AP Ferg Loses His Way Attempting to ‘Always Strive and Prosper’
A$AP Ferg was always on pace to, at best, be A$AP Mob’s Scottie Pippen — a versatile complement to A$AP Rocky, its trendsetting (and trend-borrowing) superstar and de facto boss. He was never quite cut...
View ArticleReview: Ka Is Calm Like a Bomb on ‘Honor Killed the Samurai’
Brownsville rapper Ka’s voice commands close listening. It’s somewhere between a wheeze and a snarl, dead-eyed and cold — dragging with it a street-weary stoicism. His words are to be pored over, often...
View ArticleReview: Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition Is A Thrilling, Harrowing Ride
Danny Brown is a man in limbo who is struggling to find balance. In song he’s autobiographical, often flipping between zonked out and deadly serious, usually in existential crisis. He teeters between...
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