‘Nightmare Vacation’ review: Rico Nasty shows off all she knows on her LP debut

After a six-year musical career with zero full-length LP’s, Rico Nasty encapsulates the breadth of her experiences on her debut, Nightmare Vacation (2020), while reminding everyone of the patented, chaotic bad bitch she truly is. In a project that utilizes…

Some Rap Songs: Packy Marciano, Mo Money, Young Slo-Be, and more

Project of the week: Packy Marciano – Catalina Wine Mixer The Catalina Wine Mixer became stuff of legend after Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly gave the performance of a lifetime at the end of Step Brothers, a film that…

Interview: Master Kato on his bright solo future

Master Kato’s music is genetically different from Shoreline Mafia’s. The former member of the legendary west coast group is paving the way for his own solo career. Born and partially raised on the south side of Chicago, Kato moved to…

Album Review: Kid Cudi Returns on “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen”

Kid Cudi exploded onto the scene in 2009 with Man on the Moon: The End of Day. Since then, he has become the patron saint of the sensitive ragers. Having enticed an audience of reflective stoners, Kid Cudi’s bangers were…

Top 20 Gorillaz Songs

When Gorillaz first stepped foot in the music industry arena, nothing had been proven, aside from Albarn’s prior successes with Blur. No “virtual” or “cartoon” band had ever seen immense success outside of TV shows, or movies. Many of the…

Album Review: Run the Jewels – “RTJ4”

“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now sounds…

We’re All Stuck Inside On The 5th Anniversary Of “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside”

I don’t know where you’re reading this at, but I know what you’re reading this in.  I know because I’m in it as well. This feeling. This stillness, this increasing dissociation after each new headline, this frustration towards everything. It…