Welcome to Rap Weekly 157: Stardust. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums Stardust by Danny Brown, Mercy by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, SCRAM! by Domo Genesis & Graymatter, Bloo Velvet by Bloo Azul & Good Food, Faith In The Unknown by Shungu, and Everything In My Soul_BLUE by REASON. Also look forward to great music videos from Kal Banx, MEZ, LIJAH., R. SOL, OT The Real, Bruiser Wolf, Harry Fraud, and MONDAY NIGHT & LOOK DAMIEN!. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
Gangster in a Dress: Queering of Hip-Hop and Young Thug
Vogue magazine called the 2010s the decade when hip-hop’s wardrobe became more openly receptive to femininity. The thorny process of queering and reconceptualizing the unstable heteronormative image of Black hypermasculinity in African American popular culture neither begins nor ends with pioneering rapper Young Thug — yet he could have become its most important representative, if not for his own reluctance and conservative impulses holding him back.
Rap Weekly 156: Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King
Welcome to Rap Weekly 156: Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums I Heard It’s A Mess There Too by Aesop Rock, Hells Have Eyes 3 by Westside Gunn, The Reinvention by Ransom & DJ Premier, She Know U Lame by Big Kahuna Og & Foisey, UNTIL THE SKY BREAK by OBIJUAN & CAMOFLAUGE MONK, and Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King by Big L. Also look forward to great music videos from Ovrkast., Jesse James (Solomon), Navy Blue, Mike Shabb, and Knucks. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
Rap Weekly 155: GOLDFISH
Welcome to Rap Weekly 155: GOLDFISH. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums GOLDFISH by Hit-Boy & The Alchemist, fight the power! by Mike Shabb, A Spyglass to One’s Face by YUNGMORPHEUS & Dirty Art Club, ORBIT 2: AS THIS SPHERE SPINS by Sphere47, Made by Dope by Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud, Champagne Tears by Daylan Gideon & A1 Devin. Also look forward to great music videos from Lil Baby, YTB Fatt, YFN Lucci, KNOWLEDGE THE PIRATE, Armand Hammer, The Alchemist, Silka, Cleo Reed, MARCO PLUS, Swavay, & Ian. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
“Keep the past close, but don’t let it consume you”: An Interview with A Place Called Hell
godless god, the new album by A Place Called Hell, feels like a new beginning. The duo, made up of rapper Monzy The Terrible and producer Dylan Land, switched up their sound and dove head first into a mix of hardcore riffs and punchy raps. For seasoned fans, this change didn’t come out of nowhere. Tastes of Monzy’s metal musings were already present on their breakthrough last album, No Shimmering Heaven. But while Heaven only teased the sound, godless god puts it at the forefront. Shortly before the Halloween release of their latest album, I sat down with Monzy to talk about the album, their perspective on death, and bonded over our mutual love of The Body.