Ayo Danny Brown

Just because you can make songs with rappers whose music you enjoy such as TREE, ZMoney and BeatKing it does not necessarily mean that you should. If you really must insist on making a song with every underground regional rapper you've discovered via reading mixtape reviews on Pitchfork then can you please spare a moment's thought on how your style would compliment theirs and not just rush into the booth and squawk all over other people's otherwise perfectly good songs in that voice you've been using on every single fucking cameo verse you've recorded since XXX?

You are out here combining the least savoury practices of A$AP Ferg, El-P, Drake, and RiFF RaFF right now, and it's an even worse look for you than that time you were forced to pretend to enjoy Kitty Pryde's music after your manager procured her contract from one of those Wavery nonces.

Where is teh love for Limp Bizkit's true auteur?

"I'm the realest, that's first things first
My biscuits ain't limp, but shout out Fred Durst"

P-Lo ft. Sage The Gemini - Show You
(From The L.A Leakers' #LeaksOfTheIndustry14 mixtape; 2014)


Wes Borland be like THIS right now:


Bay Area-related tip: A-Wax finally dropped that Money Back song from his Instagram which ANU & I thought was gonna be on Pullin' Strings. Think I prefer the Instagram snippet over the full song, tbh.

The whole Byrdgang's in here like Shannon Hoon was here!

Well, not quite the whole Byrdgang, but there's a 50%/10% ratio of Purple City Byrdgang and M.O.B Byrdgang in this here posse picture from 2005:

J.R Writer and Ike Eyes are also present, but I dunno if the other blokes are big-time NY drug dealers who were a crucial part of the rap landscape at the time like Killer Ben, Rap Supreme, Kelvin "50 Cent" Martin et al in the Paid In Full posse picture, or just a bunch of weed-carrier's weed-carriers? Whoever the other goons may be, this JPG is more important to the overall history of New York rap than 97% of the music to emerge from NYC thus far in 2014.

And so here's a generic list of 10 A-Mafia songs that are 2000 light years better than Bobby Shmurda's Hot N*gga but which weren't afforded the same level of attention/support because A-Mafia can buy beer legally and NYC is a city run by Ken Kaniff & Cyril Smith type creeps. As FEAR nearly once opined and Das Racist recently proved, New York's alright if you like sex offenders:

Jim Jones & A-Mafia - The 'Jects remix (2003)
A-Mafia - Hell For A Hustla (2003)
A-Mafia - Everywhere (2004)
A-Mafia & 40 Cal - 40th Boys (2005)
A-Mafia - 1000 Grams (2010)
A-Mafia - Love Train (2011)
A-Mafia ft. 2 Chainz - Real Live Pro remix (2011)
A-Mafia - Wayne Perry (2011)
A-Mafia - Realest N*gga In My City (2012)
A-Mafia - Story Of My Life (2012)

Heaven knows I'm Ms. Melodie now

Really didn't think Lil' Chris could top Keep Your Head Up for its combination of the positive and the polyphonic, and then he goes and releases a 2014 analogue to Self Destruction with a 9 year old girl who I'm gonna assume is either his daughter/cousin/niece or a random pre-pubescent plucked from the west side of Chicago who Chris' manager is passing off as the inverse-Lil' Mouse?

Heaven ft. Lil' Chris - Don't Shoot
(From YouTube; 2014)


Chicago experts and/or ex-pats: is this the first foreal foreal Kidz Bop Bop song, and why is it catchier than all of Lil' Chris' own Bop songs?

Shinola songs by shit rappers part whatever

The only way Flo Rida could ever make a song I'd ever want to listen to is by nicking a horn sample that sounds like it's from a 45 King-produced Lakim Shabazz song a la Ariana Grande's Problem and then letting Sage The Gemini do the hook and most of the rapping. He did just that and we've all been sleeping on it for the past couple of weeks:

Flo Rida ft. Sage The Gemini - GDFR
(From GDFR single; 2014)


DEV's Kiss It, Adrian Marcel's 2 AM, Show Banga's I Been That, and this... Sage The Gemini is pretty much 2014's cameo king M.V.P.

Wanted dead or alive: Dorrough edition

Dorrough Music ft. Lil' Boosie - Beat Up The Block
(From the internet; 2014)


Man, I swear Dorrough is trollin' me here since his latest cut Beat Up The Block has a title that's somewhat reminiscent of the song of his I've been lookin' for a good quality MP3 of for about 3 years now to no avail:

"I'm a grizzly boy straight out the zoo
Shockin' hoes like Pikachu
Surprisin' n*ggas like peek-a-boo with the okie-doke or the switcheroo"

Dorrough Music - Swangin' Beatin' Down Blvd
(From Dallas mixtapes; 2006 or 2007/The Vault mixtape; 2011)



A Texan cousin of DJ Unk's Comin' Down Da Street, Swangin' Beatin' Down Blvd was one of Dorrough's early tracks which was big in Dallas around 2006/2007 but then ended being up cut from his debut album for some silly reason, and it's now been wiped from the internet at the behest of Bob Perry even though it's never officially been available for sale digitally. Best shit Dorrough's ever made and ever likely to make, and I'd probably donate one of my pinky toes to get a good quality MP3 of it.

If one of eOne Entertainment's unpaid interns sees this post when they're Googling for illegal links of their material then tell your bosses to put that CDQ MP3 of Swangin' Beatin' Down Blvd up for sale on Amazon.

An Akinyele deep cuts compilation 4 u

It's 2014 and even your grandparents can recite Put It In Your Mouth from front-to-back on cue during Christmas lunch, and Vagina Diner is now rightfully lauded as an early '90's N.Y classic in certain quarters of the rap media. But how familiar are you with the rest of Akinyele's catalogue? If you still don't know the difference between your Aktapuss and your Anakonda then here's a zipfile of 15 Akinyele deep cuts from his lesser-known releases.

This thing is in chronological order so you can witness Akinyele's blossom from the ruffneck street-rap of In The World and The Robbery Song to the post-Jiggy Rap & Bullshit of Three and Do You Wanna? Moreover, you can also witness Ak's metaphysical progression from Break A Bitch Neck in 1995 to Love My Bitch in 2001, where dude went from "beatin' bitches up ain't nothin' new to me, whether you're down with social security or you're just hittin' puberty" to "I spit flows for ya, kick down door's for ya, even suck all ya toes for ya" on some Rap Game High-Heel Throat Fuck Scene From Tenebre type shit:


(GIF via Party Sparty)
And that's not even the best Biggie interpolation here since you can find his Juicy homage Coochie ("it was all a dream, I used to read Playboy magazine/n*ggas gettin' their dicks licked with whipped cream..") at track number 9. Also of great note on the rap history tip is Sister Sister, the only true heir to Biz's Just A Friend as far as rap songs about being marooned in the friend-zone go:

Akinyele - Deep Cuts compilation

1. Break A Bitch Neck O.G version (with Kool G. Rap)
2. In The World O.G version
3. The Robbery Song
4. Enter
5. Murder
6. Juan Valdez O.G version
7. Get Up
8. Sister Sister
9. Coochie
10. Three
11. Messin' With My Cru
12. Gangsters
13. Do You Wanna? (with Uneek)
14. Problems
15. Love My Bitch (with Simone)

~~~> DOWNLOAD HERE <~~~

If I'd ruled the world in 1997 then The Firm's line-up would have consisted of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown & Akinyele, and their album would have comprised of a 50/50 ratio of Phone Tap-type tracks where AZ & Nas went back-and-forth with each other and filthy sex tracks where Foxy & Akinyele went back-and-forth at each other like Ak' & Uneek later did on Do You Wanna? in 2001.

Boyz-N-Tha-Rouge

Just some new nasty Baton Rouge bottom-runger rap to spoil your tuesday via the label of that geezer who talked shit about Kevin Gates on Young Ready's last 'tape. Lil' One Tha Champ dropped a song with Mouse a few weeks back that was rubbish, but this new track is a nice little slice of tawdry Young Ready-core, which appears to be a legitimate sub-genre of Baton Rouge-rap in 2014:

"Dress code colder than Pluto, swaggin' like I'm Obama
You n*ggas is super-lame, I put that on yo' mamma"

Lil' One The Champ ft. Scotty Cain - U Kno
(Spotted at DGB; 2014)


Lil' One The Champ out chea keepin' Louisiana's penchant for Obama jeans alive in 2014.