Hip hop had blown out of its niche into the mainstream. It suddenly seemed difficult to remember a time when youths of color had…
…not been represented in the media, whether as consumers or producers. But just as hip-hop was now crucial content…
Blackman, Rha Goddess and dream hampton, offering a loyal but vocal opposition to hip-hop's ubermasculinity. Hip-hop feminism's musical…
Miller had stepped his game up. I wasn't entirely sold but I was intrigued. Next day the video for “S.D.S” came out produced…
…by FlyLo. Mac Miller once again came correct. Lastly I saw the tracklisting and guest features on this album and I knew I had…
…is to make money and gaining knowledge. Throughout the entire record we're witnessing a 21 year old man question the world around him from…
…]
This is a true story; how I put the clamp on Octagon
Drowned him in the water until he was gone
Then he came back alive
I stabbed…
To the extreme, they tried to duplicate the same record
I had to check it
[Hook]
[Verse Three]
With all the rock bands offering their condolences
To the producers…
…the whole thing But what else are you doing besides writing your verses
[Travis Scott]
Well when I first came into the game I…
…to focus on raps because I felt like when I came up here I wasn't the best rapper, I had the best beats
I was doing Cruel Summer…
…surprised when it got done
[Travis]
I'mma keep it all the way 100 man
A lot of these features on the album
I was surprised every time…
Young Krizzle each day this week. The first W.O.K. offering, “New Agenda,” features labelmate Rick Ross (who just released…
…asking me when I was gonna drop something new. I've been working hard on my upcoming album Cadillactica, but I wanted to give my…
…and give 'em to the people. Thank God I have the kinda team that understands my want to put my music out when I feel a certain way…
…when he stained it?
Absent-minded in Sunday school
And now whenever Producers ask me when
I'mma have the time to voice, I say…
…offering
Bought a one way ticket to heaven, flying past all the Sinners
No heresy, no blasphemy, just an awesome thinker…
…be the same if I die in a crash
And have these suckers saying my mixtape was entirely classic?
Y'all returning the love when…
Young Krizzle each day this week. The first W.O.K. offering, “New Agenda,” features labelmate Rick Ross (who just released…
…asking me when I was gonna drop something new. I've been working hard on my upcoming album Cadillactica, but I wanted to give my…
…and give 'em to the people. Thank God I have the kinda team that understands my want to put my music out when I feel a certain way…
…and accepted and I'm pissed that when I express concern over my own safety it's often ignored until people see firsthand what happens…
…musicians continually offering to ‘help me out' (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i'm gonna flounder without them…
…to any of my male peers
I'm tired of the weird insistence that i need a band or i need to work with outside producers (and I'm eternally…
…the reason, some women, they have abortions
Hip hop, you was my very first girlfriend
I focused to spit it right, my songs are an offering…
Knowledge first, over beats, producers are sampling
Myself and creations, on the line as I offer in
It's kinda sad…
…clean up the virus
Decapitate ferocious, peg leg rap pirates
They only flowing now, cause the dough flowing now
Who, what, when, why…
…listening, gathering a following
Shout out to producers that are generously offering
Owen Hill, Kid Ocean
Noting that a buzz could turn…
…with the music and I also do the visuals
Where do I come from? Ya'll better do an integral
When repping honesty, well nothings unforgivable…
By Mahdyar Aghajani (2017)
On album Mahdyar (2017)
…into graffiti at the rebellious age of 14 setting him on a course that would lead to a chance meeting with some of Tehran's upcoming hip-hop artists and into the producers…
…and culminating in the the blacklisting of Mahdyar by the Ministry of Culture. Against this backdrop of authoritarianism, Mahdyar decided to leave Tehran in 2009 when he received…
…and American filmmakers
Mahdyar's ambitious first full-length offering 'Seized' rhythmically structures itself along…
…[Intro]
You know we up in this bitch
Nigga (we up my nigga)
Black Order, yeah
[Chorus]
We the BLACK ORDER
We came…
…in to conquer
And niggas, we conquer
While ballin
Niggas we murder
Creating disorder
In all them producers we rollin
When the BLACK ORDER…
…disorder
In all them producers we rollin
When the BLACK ORDER
Arrives in the moment
All of them lollers will be falling
When…
…on innovation and pushing the right boundaries.
I'm sure you are aware that Apple Music will be offering a free 3 month trial to anyone who signs up…
…for the service. I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months…
Apple has been and we know that this incredible company has the money to pay artists, writers and producers for the 3 month trial…
They put cocaine on they arm
And then they snort it when they dabbin
Hoody lying, bout he fasting
These hoes lying 'bout…
…they juicin'
These n*ggas lying 'bout they stacks
Producers lying 'bout producin'
[Pre verse 2]
These artists lying 'bout they music
Me, I'm…
The trap house came with the sprinklers
All of my homies delinquents
You ain't the plug, then you link us
[Chorus 1]
And I don't…
…[Soundtrack for Chance]
Yeah, we listen to hip-hop at Rock Genius too my people! Especially when it hits this hard. Gotta admit…
…in many ways. And Chance the jokester rears his head on "Smoke Again":
Again on "Juice" when he spouts…
…around repeating 'em. You wanna chuckle when you think about missing "Cocoa Butter Kisses." And this is the sign of a dude who's…