Category: Editorials
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flowsfordays Presents: Highest Basement Collective
In the last few years there has been a surge of popularity in hip hop collectives. It’s well deserved and great to see. There are blurred lines (The Social Experiment) and more concrete examples (Pro Era, A$AP Mob.) Throughout my blogging career I’ve noticed many “underground” collectives not getting the spotlight they deserve. Some are coming out…
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flowsfordays Presents: Our 10 Favorite Instrumental Albums of 2016
As each year goes by I see more and more music blogs overlooking hip hop instrumental albums. It’s disappointing to see as many of them are just as intricate and conceptual as albums with lyrics. We’ll always have Donuts, Endtroducing…, and Petestrumentals, but producers around the world are serving up platters of straight up instrumental caviar across the…
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Top 5 ‘Underground’ Hip Hop Projects of The Week
This week was rich with releases. Tons of great music videos and tracks were put out into the public via SoundCloud, YouTube and the like. I for one noticed that tons of great, full, projects came out in the past 7 days. While some were HUGE releases, there were some that were less highlighted. The…
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Stream Of Consciousness – Track by Track 1st Listen to D.R.A.M.’s New Album
D.R.A.M. just dropped an album. It has an odd cover. Ok, glad we got that out of the way. I’ve heard all the singles and I’ve enjoyed them all. I’ll be honest, I had no idea a full length was in the works. I don’t follow him on any social media platform; thank god…
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Jon Waltz, my introduction to his music + Riot (New Track)
My introduction To Jon Waltz dates back to 3 years ago when I heard Bang for the first time. I believe it was on Pigeons & Planes where they were showcasing up and coming artists they believed would make it big (I forget the exact article name.) It was a rough sketch, not mixed or mastered. But…
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What Inspired Me To Start flowsfordays.com (Personal Editorial)
flowsfordays was started for a reason. I had been running a blog on Tumblr called Discover Good Music for a few years while I was at Columbia College in Chicago. For those that aren’t familiar, it’s an arts school downtown. I transferred to the college in the fall of 2012 after trying social work at…
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Most Played Chicago + Baltimore Songs (TheDemoTape + flowsfordays Collab)
Justice, the co-creator of influential blog The Demo Tape, hit me up a few days ago wanting to exchange some of our favorite music from our hometowns. He’s from Baltimore and I’m from Chicago. We decided to write a collaborative article on the songs we are bumping from artists out of our cities. For me…
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Revisiting A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s ‘Artist: The Mixtape’ (Top 5 Tracks To Check Out)
To say A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s debut mixtape Artist (free download here) was a commercial success would be an understatement. Tons of articles have been written about the brilliance of the tape, his “modernization of New York Hip Hop”, sudden buzz, his music that blurs the line between trap & r&b and much much more.…
