No column today, but to make up for it we’re droppin beats once again at Beauty Bar in Chicago! Come on and get down with Nick Catchdubs! Chi-town RAT residents Flosstradamus will be traveling, but local beatmeisters Capcom and Hiroki will be on the set to help hold it down.
Two consecutive weeks of RAT? Vainglorious! (more…)
When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, and nothing, whoa nothing, is going right, close your eyes and think of Rappin Ass Thursdays. (more…)
Sometimes I feel bad about skipping (several) Thursdays on this column, but I’ve come to realize that I never meant to write this up religiously every week, for the same reason that I don’t write about every brand new record or leak already cluttering up blogland. This isn’t Julia & Julia with curse words, I’m gonna write about some stuff I feel like talmbout when I feel like talmboutit, not a dutiful batch of pithy remarks and Sendspaces you can set your watch to. So, without further ado… links and stuff after the jump! (more…)
I feel like a bum not including something from Fonzarelli in the fortieth installment of RAT… but here we are. Hit the jump for some other goodies. (more…)
Some tracks from the past week, no more no less. If you’re in Chicago tonight come through Beauty Bar for RAT: The Party with Flosstradamus and yours truly. (more…)
Rappin Ass Thursdays, the column you know and love, comes to life in the Chi this week in the form of a new monthly party of the same name at Beauty Bar. The tunes are provided by Flosstradamus and special guest (and RAT curator) Nick Catchdubs. Come through this Thursday, dougie will be taught!
Crunk-not-crunk, Killa Cam, and press photos. Onward! (more…)
Sorry I skipped two weeks y’all. But in that time, no shockers. Kanye, Ross and Jeezy still the hardest shit out (honorable mention to Vado: slime, it’s your time!), Drake album has its moments inbetween interminable amounts of r&b self-loathing, Eminem “comeback” LP 100% unlistenable - and I’m not trying to hear it about the production credits, I love Just and Khalil’s shit too but even the better tracks could have been Game album cuts if Jayceon was all AY CUZ AY MAKE THIS LIKE METALLICA UNFORGIVEN WITH TOO MUCH ORGAN AND WE WILL ROCK YOU DRUMS but thats a rant for another time. And ultimately a moot point, good beat + bad songwriting = bad music no matter how you attempt to justify otherwise. EXHALE. But why focus on the big dogs, here’s some joints you may have missed. (more…)
Just another RATatouille: samples, nerdery, Christmas music. Go! (more…)
