Careening through wide turns along I-80 West, the highway landscape quickly trades out stacked Brooklyn buildings for a smattering of trees that blur in color alongside the interstate. It’s tough to tell who’s who inside one of the two busses...
We’ve now had well over a month to let The Life of Pablo knock around our speakers, so we can dive into some of the more overlooked moments of lyrical nuance found deeper within the album; certain peaks, valleys and subtle utterances, which...
It’s the type of day where heat can make the moment feel like molasses, movement yes, but at a fraction of the pace. All the better to watch the world spin slowly enough to pick up the extra detail; particulate and dust picking up off the...
Baths, Anticon’s newest bragging right, has blessed us with his track Maximalist as we wait for his full length Cerulean to drop on July 6th. Ambient and bubbly, this song oozes with a vibrant pop that has long been untouched by Anticon’s...
Origins of File-Sharing In the first decade of the new millennium, file sharing across both legal and illegal mediums thrived with remarkable resiliency. Technological advents like Napster in 1999, BitTorrent in 2001, MediaFire in 2005, and...
Just shy of a year ago, the first edition of Best Song You’ve Never Heard was published by Cult Classic as a nod toward cult-favorite tracks that had been overlooked by the swollen nucleus of popular culture. As the brand worked to expand their...
Save a recent interview with The Guardian and a Wikipedia page written in stark German, you’ll be hard-pressed to find more than a half-dozen write-ups on rapidly rising producer, Matt Walker, also known as Julio Bashmore. The UK standout is...
It’s the morning of July 4th; a ritual celebration of American Independence even with riots in the streets and the deliberate, ever growing fissure between the haves and the have nots. A soft drizzle adorns a grey sky overhead as I make a...
After I caught a glimpse of the new Michael Berry and Matt Dash collaboration on Twitter, I immediately took to the trail like a dog on a hunt. I shot Berry a quick text, “Is this out?” with a bright blue hyperlink containing the pre-release...
By now we’ve all heard Post Malone’s runaway smash, “White Iverson”. If you haven’t, stop reading and click on that pretty little provocative phrase hyperlinked in the first sentence. “White Iverson” is a special type of single. Post speaks about...
A good rap song is art, valid as any other particular medium. The brush of Matisse likened to the tongue of Young Thug for a different era, both valid as the forever vivid capture of the present moment through art. Though not all art is created...
Pop quiz: which contemporary producer can muster a profound continuity between the late poet Gil Scott-Heron and modern-day sensation Young Thug (sheesh)? Answer: Jamie xx, as spectacularly embodied on his latest release “I Know There’s Gonna Be...
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