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Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Album Review | Grafh – Oracle 3

    This album was released on March 6th this year. Grafh is an artist whom I’ve been aware of for almost a decade at this point, but I didn’t really start looking into his music until recently. I think he’s a really great MC. My worry is that he’ll turn out to be one of those…

  • Best Singles of the Week | 2020: Week 20

    Last week I live-streamed the best singles of week 19 in a virtual club, and it went pretty well, so I think I’m just gonna do that every week from now on. I do it at 5 PM EST on Sundays, but I usually run through the setlist twice for people who might’ve shown up…

  • Album Review | Early Adopted – Tarred & Feathered

    This album was released on April 3rd this year. I’m going into this record almost completely blind, so I don’t really have much to say in this preamble. I don’t know shit about Early Adopted. I’m just checking this out because it has one of the best album covers I’ve seen all year, and it…

  • Album Review | CJ Fly – RUDEBWOY

    This album was released on March 6th this year. Believe it or not, this is actually one of my most anticipated releases of the year. It’s mainly just because every single track that CJ Fly dropped leading up to this album’s full release was really awesome to me. I listened to his debut project, Thee…

  • Album Review | Stik Figa – IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO

    This album was released on May 1st this year. The last project I covered from Stik Figa was All God’s Dangers, which I thought was the best album he’d ever released at the time. I didn’t get a chance to cover every single project he went on to release in 2019, but it should be…

  • Best Singles of the Week | 2020: Week 19

    Once again, I wasn’t really paying that much attention to what happened in the news this week, but I just wanna quickly say rest in peace to Little Richard. I’m personally not really into Rock music these days, but Lucille is and always has been fire to me. His quick performance of Dock of the…

  • EP Review | K-Beta – STUFF

    This extended play was released on April 21st. K-Beta is an artist I became familiar with late last year when I checked out his EP, See You in Hell, Coward. It ended up being one of the better projects that I’d heard that year, and it also introduced me to a lot of other dope…

  • Album Review | Childish Gambino – 3.15.20

    According to Apple Music, this album was released on March 25th this year. However, the entire thing was available to stream and download on March 22nd. I’m really not sure what the deal with this project was. He made it available to stream on his website on March 15th if I’m not mistaken, but it…

  • Album Review | Willie Waze – F.R.E.E. WILLIE

    This album was released on April 3rd this year. I first became familiar with Willie Waze when he was featured on an extended play from K-Beta last year. I then heard the lead single from this project, and ended up featuring it in one of my “Best Singles of the Week” posts earlier this year.…

  • Best Singles of the Week | 2020: Week 18

    I’m gonna be honest, I have no fucking clue what happened in the news this week, so I just chose a random picture that I had for the “featured image” of this article. I know things have been kinda slow lately, and I can’t really say why to be honest. Maybe I’ve been too busy…

  • Album Review | Darko the Super & Steel Tipped Dove – The Devil Defeated

    This album was released on March 13th this year. I kinda mentioned my experience with Darko the Super as an artist a few weeks ago when I wrote about his latest single, which was really great. Truth be told, I was kinda apprehensive towards this album because I wasn’t crazy about the one single that…

  • EP Review | Conway the Machine & The Alchemist – LULU

    This extended play was released on March 30th this year. Conway the MachineĀ is currently my favorite gangsta rapper, so I was pretty excited when I saw that this project was happening. If somebody asked me who I wanted The Alchemist to do a full project with, I most likely would have said Conway. Well, I…