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All throughout Pascal Siakam’s career, adoring fans and NBA observers have looked to take note of his mesmeric rise. We know the story like the back of our hand at this point. From New Mexico State to G League assignment to G League champion to NBA champion and the stops in between. What we know […]
Can you briefly talk about the work you had produced prior to working with Gosha? How does one actually get to the point that these huge artists trust you enough to work with them, in terms of the path you take. How do you get onto those radars? For sure! I’d been doing a lot […]
Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist have a long collaborative history, dating all the way back to (sadly unreleased) tracks from Gangsta Gibbs’ earliest days in the rap game. But the Gary, Indiana-raised spitter and the West Coast beat magician really connected when Gibbs guested on Curren$y’s 2011 track, “Scottie Pippen.” That led to the trio making the full-length collaborative […]
Montreal rapper Narcy may have made his latest album, Love & Chaos, over a five-week period during the pandemic, but this spiritual continuation of his 2018 SpaceTime isn’t specifically about the pandemic. “I didn’t want to make a pandemic album,” Narcy said. “It’s about the macro and micro of life. It’s about the now, but […]
When it comes to Insecure, the music is just as liable to get Twitter buzzing as much as any relationship twist. Issa Rae has said that the music each season is basically an extension of her personal playlist, but that in no way shortchanges what Kier Lehman brings to the table. The veteran music supervisor has […]
Being quarantined is making rap legends as nostalgic and reflective as the rest of us. Big Boi is, of course, one half of OutKast and a core member of the world-changing Atlanta collective the Dungeon Family (named after the crew’s original studio, the Dungeon, located in the basement of DF member Rico Wade’s mother’s house). And […]
Vashtie had plans for a big, celebratory wedding, but due to Covid-19, they had to be postponed. But she and her husband, Emil Boye, opted to get married secretly at City Hall wearing attire that was unexpected, but made sense for the couple. “To honor tradition I wore all white, but to be true to […]
When one of the Best Directors in the game right now returns with a film, you better stop everything and pay attention. The legend Spike Lee, who’s been giving us cinematic excellence since his debut feature-length film She’s Gotta Have It was released in 1986, returns just two years after his Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman with a new joint, Da 5 Bloods. […]
Clams Casino’s music functions on two levels: He makes beats with enough space for artists to comfortably rap over, while still retaining a melodicism that makes his instrumentals standalone gems. The New Jersey producer, born Michael Volpe, splices anthemic choirs with ambient rumblings, pummeling 808s with delicate melodies, and pop samples with trap arrangements. He’s […]
Montreal’s current bumper crop of music talent has been sprinkling the city’s magic dust on some of the biggest releases on Earth. So far, they’ve been making waves in terms of production credits, but that’s starting to change. Whether it’s DRTWRK on Kanye’s “Use This Gospel,” Demy & Clipz producing Bad Bunny’s “Soliá,” Alexander (Alex A.C.) […]
