Tag: Hip Hop
Since his “Rap Quotes” project in New York went viral, artist Jay Shells continued to expand the series. He put up a bunch more in Harlem and now, ANIMAL rejoins him in Los Angeles. Jay Shells installed official-looking street signs featuring hip hop lyrics of Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Warren G, Notorious B.I.G., Kendrick Lamar and more — at the exact locations called out […]
Mass Appeal‘s “What The Hec,” a series of animations published on Instagram, excellently riffs on hip-hop music and culture. Often, they’ll take existing audio from rap recordings, then add their own cartoonish visuals and context. Below are a few more of our favorites, see the rest on Mass Appeal‘s Instagram. Here’s a good one that takes aim at one […]
Geohot, née George Hotz, the hacker who was the first to jailbreak an iPhone back in 2007–at age 17, no less–also makes rap songs, as The Verge points out. Let’s have a look at his SoundCloud. Needless to say, he is not exactly Kendrick Lamar. Fuck, he’s not even Paul Barman. “Literally Sick” is Odd Future-lite, three […]
Today, the southwest corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets houses Wolfnights, a restaurant that “delivers an exciting and refreshing take on the ordinary wrap,” according to its website. In the 1980s, it housed Lee’s Sportswear, but hip-hop fans better know that business by another name: Paul’s Boutique. The spot–99 Rivington, to be precise–is the setting […]
On Monday, Complex released its list of the year’s 50 best albums, as music-based mags are wont to do. Predictably but reasonably, Yeezus took the top spot, and the full list was full of other great stuff as well: ANIMAL favorites like Chance the Rapper, Pusha T, Danny Brown, Run the Jewels, and Action Bronson […]
Some possible insight into Kanye West’s claim that his next album will be the Born in the U.S.A. to Yeezus’s Nebraska: In an interview with Elliott Wilson for Life+Times, Q-Tip announced that he and Rick Rubin will be producing it. Tip and Rubin are as responsible as anyone for the warm, sample-based sound associated with “classic” East Coast hip-hop, perhaps the […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today’s playlist comes from Rhode Island-based producer The Range, who selected a mix of mid-’90s R&B and hip-hop, bookended by two more contemporary tracks: MssngNo’s “Brandy Flip” up front, and Justin Bieber’s Terius […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. I was hoping to look at “Numbers on the Boards” this week, but couldn’t find any track that shares its absolutely bonkers sample of an early electronic music curiosity. Instead, […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Today we have a playlist from the producer RJD2, who’s moved from straight hip-hop to psychedelic sample-based music to twisted jazz-pop and back again over the course of his career. Fittingly his playlist […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. For this week’s Listen In, we’ve enlisted the inimitable rap veteran Freeway, who provided a playlist full of hip hop cuts from the past year. Fellow Philadelphians Meek Mill and Young Chris show […]