Tag: editorial
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XV Was Up Next…Let’s Revisit His Early Mixtape Run
As I wrote about in my first editorial on this site, Lil Wayne was my introduction to the hip hop mixtape world. One of the first tapes I ever downloaded was The Dedication 2, and boy was it a banger. It still stands as my top 10 free releases of all time, and most would…
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Martin $ky – His Year In Review (New LP + What’s Next (Editorial)
Martin $ky has switched things up quiet a bit this year…even more so in the last few months. He made a purely instrumental account (first called $omebody, now MARTIN $KY².) The tracks were put up, and pretty quickly taken down. We posted most of them (it’s hard to keep up), which you can check out…
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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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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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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.…
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Talking with Säge The 64th Wonder on new single ‘Gold Dirty’ (Dissection Interview Series)
Chicago emcee Säge The 64th Wonder has peaked my interest since my early years of posting his music. Now he’s dropping the best music he’s ever created (in my humble opinion). The surprise Album on X-Mas is quite good and much appreciated. My favorite track on the album (and of the week) is Gold Dirty featuring…
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Exploring The History of Unique Voices In Hip Hop (Editorial)
Since the birth of hip hop in the late 70’s there have been a slew of artists with strong personalities. Taking it back to the mid/late 80’s we can look at Flavor Flav. Public Enemy was a revolutionary group for the genre of hip hop and music in general, but Flavor gave the group, well,…
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Confessions: My New Found Love for Indie Hip Hop
I’ve been slacking. These are my confessions I recently wrote an article for Speedonthebeat.com giving my thoughts on the sub genre of “underground hip hop” and what I’ve been listening to recently. The album I focused on was Apollo Brown & Skyzoo’s collaborative album, ‘The Easy Truth.’ It is a dope piece of work; something…
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