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Moodie Black’s Lucas Acid is an Unflinching and Powerful Album of Trans Anthems

April 25, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Moodie Black Lucas Acid

Late into Moodie Black’s new album Lucas Acid, MB mastermind K Death growls “I ain’t really screaming/There’s no pain” and there’s a good chance you’ll think this is a lie based on what you hear around it. After all, Moodie Black are pioneers of noise rap, a subgenre defined by unholy howls, a scene with cacophony in […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Electronic, Fake Four, hip-hop, Indie, K Death, Moodie Black, noise rap, punk, Sean Lindahl

B L A C K I E’s Remains Channels the Collective Rage and Pain of the Oppressed

May 31, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

B L A C K I E Remains

Like a lot of Americans, I’ve spent most of 2017 tense and nervous and unable to relax, wired on the buzz of anxiety that comes from every cursory glance at the headlines. I feel like the world is ending not as a bang but as a joke and all I can do about it is […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: B L A C K I E, experimental, hip-hop, Houston, Music, noise rap, rap

Future’s New Album is an IKEA Couch of a Record

February 23, 2017 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Future

The consensus of 2016 was that Future had a bad year, but it’s more accurate to say that his stranglehold on rap music simply loosened by a finger or two. While critics who were penning his hagiography the year before rushed to declare that Future was “over,” he was busy forming a symbiotic chemistry with […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Future, hip-hop, Music

Pet;Wolf, BLXPLTN and Seizing Fascist Imagery to Use it Against Itself

February 10, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Pet Wolf Dance with the Devil

The other day, upcoming hip hop artist Pet;wolf emailed Loser City’s Kayleigh Hughes with a link to a new video he put together for his track “Dance with the Devil.” The video is decidedly lo-fi and low budget, a simple straight ahead webcam shot of Pet;wolf lipsyncing his track with occasional scratchy white out illustrations […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: anti-fascism, BLXPLTN, hip-hop, Music, Pet wolf, politics, punk

Migos’ Culture Won’t Be Winning the Culture Wars Any Time Soon

February 1, 2017 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Migos

The best musical endeavor Migos have ever been involved with was “Sloppy Toppy,” an overlooked gem off of Travi$ Scott’s Days Before Rodeo mixtape. Gurgling, grandiose and emphatic, it’s likely the most urgent blowjob anthem you’ll hear this decade, and Migos come across like they’ve trained their whole life to rap on it. Between Quavo’s […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: hip-hop, Migos, trap

Get That Money: The Get Down, Atlanta and the Deconstruction of Music Biz Glamor

September 12, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Atlanta Donald Glover FX

Basically since its inception, pop music has put as much effort into glamorizing what happens behind the scenes as what happens in front of it. The pop stars of the modern era replaced folk heroes not just in popular opinion but also in terms of mythbuilding, with their origin stories as important to their success […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Atlanta, Baz Luhrmann, Donald Glover, FX, hip-hop, Netflix, Television, The Get Down

Fossil Records: Lowdown da Sinista’s Coming for Your Soul

July 6, 2016 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Fossil Records

Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. As far as I can tell, there is no widely available information on rap artist Lowdown da Sinista aside […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Fossil Records, hip-hop, Lowdown Da Sinista, Memphis, Music

Hella Personal Film Festival is a Standout Work in Both Open Mike Eagle and Paul White’s Careers

April 11, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Open Mike Eagle Paul White Hella Personal Film Festival

The biggest complaint about the weird, abstract California indie hip hop scene is that it’s way too fucking obtuse and heady, forfeiting swagger in favor of a constant pursuit of higher word counts and more jarring cadences. I never really agreed with the assessment of the scene as difficult and unwieldy but I could understand […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: hip-hop, Music, Open Mike Eagle, Paul White

Martis Unruly’s Distant is Queasy Music for Subterraneans

February 18, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Martis Unruly Khrist Koopa

Early on in Distant, Martis Unruly sleepily declares “I look like I’m pissed off/Yet I feel so positive,” the removed tone of the statement jutting up against both the words and the poppy, dystopic “Hollaback Girl”  beat. The question posed by that juxtaposition is a classic unreliable narrator dilemma: do we believe Martis’ words? do we believe […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: hip-hop, Khrist Koopa, Martis Unruly, Music, Seattle, UDF

Codeine Crazy

December 16, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Codeine Crazy

I never liked Future when I was using. I always found his music to be abrasive and strangely unconducive to turning up, considering he didn’t write lyrics about anything except popping pills and fucking strippers. There was always something slightly off about the production on his songs, something about his brittle rasp that didn’t make […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Future, hip-hop

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