Everyone needs to get familiar with Kevin Gates right now; happily he’s abandoned the awful ‘KVN’ moniker and has reverted to the bravely-boring ‘Kevin’. The Baton Rouge rapper has been putting out quality, persona driven mixtapes for a couple of years now and this latest, “The Luca Brasi Story“, is his best yet. Apparently there’s a bidding war […]
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The new tape from Black Migo leader / Freeband member is here and it’s fantastic. Young Scooter manages to establish a compelling persona across almost all of “Street Lottery’s” tracks, skillfully maneuvering between winning drug king and flawed, hurt hustler with an understated musicality. The production, especially that from longtime trap genius Zaytoven is outstanding and an overwhelming testament […]
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Chief Keef is seventeen years old, but that hasn’t stopped him calling his first album “Finally Rich”, or from sounding and acting like a fully grown man. By now everyone who cares knows the RSS feed version of Keef’s sudden rise to rap celebrity: a viral WorldStar video of crazy pre-teen celebrating Keef’s release from […]
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