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(04/21/14 4:14pm)
Enter YG, a Compton-bred emcee with a legitimate grassroots following and big-league ambitions, who has just released the most exciting and fully-realized rap album of 2014. YG is an enigma of today’s rap landscape. He has taken a path to success that has been almost completely obliterated by the Internet: build a hometown following, convince local clubs to play your singles, tour and release mixtapes relentlessly and, after several years of labor, attract the attention of a major label. His approach may have been out of style, but, in an act of good faith, Def Jam signed YG and let him compose an album on his own terms.
(04/04/14 1:33pm)
This is part two in a three-part series on gangsta rap. Click here to read part one.
(03/28/14 6:32pm)
Things just ain’t the same for gangsters. N.W.A.‘s “Efil4zaggin” debuted at number one on the Billboard charts in 1991, and ever since, rap has maintained an impressive foothold in American popular music. Of course, longevity without change is impossible in pop music. Rap didn’t sustain itself by sticking to a script written by the guys who wrote that song about their qualms with the LAPD.
(02/06/14 7:29pm)
Growing up is a thunderstorm. It’s not a steady hum that moves in lockstep with the second hand, but a nocturnal headrush of self-laceration, scatterbrained recollection and cognitive mapping, followed by a testing period. For some, that testing period gives way to a lifestyle change — they learn and mature. For others, the period lasts a day, and then it’s back to the drawing board. These are the tormented kids, perpetually adrift in smoke and attuned to everything’s fleeting nature.
(01/24/14 8:04pm)
“I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. “ – Kanye West
(01/16/14 4:18am)
‘Rapping’ Up 2013
Jack Ellis
A&E Senior Writer
(11/12/13 4:33am)
Boldy James is a Detroit rapper whose new album, “My First Chemistry Set,” is one of the year’s best. I spent two hours talking to him about his children, his recording process, his loyalty to Detroit and his past. Here are some highlights:
(10/22/13 8:15pm)
If Virginia hip-hop has a sound, it’s Clipse. The duo of brothers Pusha T and Malice broke through nationally with 2002’s “Lord Willin’,” an album of vivid drug dealer narratives produced entirely by Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo, another Virginia Beach duo who called themselves The Neptunes. With the help of its clamorous first single “Grindin’,” “Lord Willin’” established Clipse as hometown heroes and critical darlings — streetwise artists with a futuristic edge. This adoration came to a head in 2006 when the duo released “Hell Hath No Fury,” an update on the reliable formula of punishing, metallic Neptunes production and meticulously detailed reflections on the intricacies of selling cocaine.
(09/22/13 11:01pm)
We’re all self-conscious. Kanye was the first to admit it, but Aubrey “Drake” Graham was the first to relish in it. A privileged child actor from the Toronto suburbs would’ve been crucified for attempting a rap career in the ’90s. But Drake ascended during the post-Kanye era of hip-hop, a time when bloodletting was as common as bloodshed.
(09/19/13 12:35am)
Out of all of hip-hop’s major label stars, no one has more reason to celebrate than 2Chainz. After rapping for 10 years as half of the duo Playaz Circle, the man born Tauheed Epps is enjoying a late career renaissance.