For the last few years Wolf Music has been a safe haven for modern house music with one leg in the present the other in the early nineties. Even though there’s a general conscientious that organ chords and MK-styled vocals hit critical mass last year there’s still room for those who earnestly love that era […]
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When Omarion signed to Maybach Music earlier this year, we heard a lot of jokers talking smack, hinting at the former B2K frontman’s irrelevance. Sorry, but if you’ve never lost your shit to “Ice Box” in the club, you really have not experienced the true meaning of “YOLO.” Regardless, Maybach O has released a free […]
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We can forgive Soulja Boy for taking a while to figure out his sound. He has been famous since he was seventeen, and has spent much of his career swaggerjacking everyone from Gucci Mane to Lil B. He teamed up with some of the rappers in the Chicago drill scene for his Juice II mixtape […]
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Jeremih’s “Late Nights with Jeremih” set the internet ablaze when it dropped a few weeks ago, and, like everyone else, we couldn’t resist the guilty pleasures found in the R&B posterboy’s relentless and unabashed carnal pursuits. If you read our August’s Best feature last Sunday, you know that we particularly enjoyed “773 Love” for the way that […]
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As you all know, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the past month. But we’ve all returned from our island hopping and Moët popping to get back on the Truants grind, and we have a lot of exciting features coming up in the next few weeks and months! While the dog days […]
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There’s a lot to be said for music that simply does what you need it to do. We all have a song we turn to when we need music for the 5am bus home after a miserable night, the song that softens the strip lighting illuminating your crushed heart. And then there are the songs […]
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“Sunday my off day, I ball all day, smoke all day and then stuntin’, all the Truants boys and girls gotta get up off the corner” – Gucci Mane. Another rest day and another couple of musical affairs we’d like to open to your view and hearing. How to simply describe the artist behind the first […]
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We’ve decided that we want to die and be reincarnated as this song, but we’ve listened to it so many times that we’ve probably imparted a good portion of our souls into it already. We’re not particularly interested in the Pet Shop Boys – who is? – but we’ve got a lot of time for […]
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So what, you though May had given it all you had to offer? Think again. Just when you were about to toss May aside like a rinsed can of Rubicon Mango, this absolute dream of a mix pops up, offered to us by the excellent bilinguals over at Playground Magazine. Of course, being Truants we’re […]
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Something a little different this Sunday. Some Bay area raps from Roach Gigz & Lil 4 Tay. Not gonna pretend to be on an expert on either (I came across Roachy Balboa browsing myspace last year) but I’ve been stepping my hyphy game up since. This is a new project from yet to be announced […]
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Another Sunday brings around another Sunday’s Best, and with it comes some of the finest downloads available selected by the TRUANTS fam. Kev Brown is back with a a brand new free compilation called “Classic Joints”, filled with his own selections, unreleased music and fan favorites. All tracks are produced by Kev Brown this past […]
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We might have been in bed all day every Sunday since the launch of Truancy Compilation One, but Grown Folk who brought us the introduction to our compilation (“Steady Moving” – ‘jewelry, chrome and stones’) haven’t. Neither did LOL Boys, who teamed up with Teki for our release. LOL Boys released a scroled up video […]
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