Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime. The Chicago-born hip-hop artist’s mix ...
Last year for Black History Month, I marathoned as many 1970s Blaxploitation classics, deep cuts, and spoofs as I could stomach. This year, though, there’s only one movie I want to recommend. A few ...
If it is a day that ends in “y,” some rapper, celebrity, or media member likely has something to say about the state of ...
Last week we got to catch a clip of Kanye West on the Juan Epstein show talking that rap nerd talk with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds. Today the full interview is out in its 47 minute glory. Fuck ...
The Buffalo rap star says that street credibility doesn’t matter anymore because of “all of these weird muthaf***as.” ...
Run-D.M.C. had been born out of the ambitions of Joey “DJ Run” Simmons, younger brother to rap promoter Russell and early understudy to the legendary Kurtis Blow. After a stint as Blow’s kid DJ (known ...
Want to prove once and for all to your skeptical friends that Game of Thrones isn't just for neckbearded, fedora-wearing nerds? Raps from the Thrones-inspired Catch the Throne: The Mixtape, out today ...
In 2000, the trio of rapper Del The Funky Homosapien, producer Dan The Automator, and DJ Kid Koala got together to form a nerd-rap supergroup called Deltron 3030 and to release a classic self-titled ...
Recently, I was excited as a person who loves both trivia and 90’s rap to read a blog post that spent an absurd amount of time and effort to discover what day was the subject of the Ice Cube track “It ...