Typically, when you’re reviewing music, you need to tread lightly with albums with direct puns in their titles. Unless you’re “Weird Al” Yankovic, it’s dangerous territor…
Album Review: A Tribe Called Quest – “We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service”
“Microphone check 1 2, what is this?” A valid question: What is a new Tribe Called Quest album doing in 2016? Rap has stretched and expanded well beyond the parameters Tribe explored in th…
Album Review: Frank Ocean “Blonde”
For fans of Frank Ocean the wait for his latest album Blonde has been aggravating, to say the least. With some mighty determination they’ve done their best to brush off any image of fan entitlem…
JoJo Performs “Andre” + A Drake Mash-up!
As fans await for JoJo to announce her official summer tour dates, she caught up with Rap-Up to perform “Andre,” off of her mix tape Agápē. One of my favorite JoJo covers is Drake&…