Thundercat on How Bill Murray and Loss Inspired ‘Apocalypse’
Thundercat photo courtesy of Brainfeeder. Los Angeles bassist Thundercat says that he hasn’t changed since childhood — after all, he named himself after his favorite ’80s cartoon. In a broad sense he...
View ArticleMykki Blanco Wanted to Rap in “the Tongue of the Illuminati” on New EP
Mykki Blanco Photo courtesy of Kevin Amato Two weeks ago, New York rapper Mykki Blanco thought that her second EP had already dropped. She remembered recording a verse before she left, but for what she...
View ArticleAlunaGeorge on ‘Body Music’ and Relationships
Photo courtesy of AlunaGeorge/Facebook AlunaGeorge is a London producer-vocalist relationship between friends Aluna Francis and George Reid. When Francis would visit Reid’s bedroom to write, she often...
View ArticleGoodie Mob Reunion Executes ‘Attack Of The Clones’ Against Rap’s New Class
Getty Images Goodie Mob didn’t have to reunite. But it did. Nearly 30 years after its debut, the Atlanta rap quartet has said that it can’t trust the current crop of cartel-obsessed rappers and the...
View ArticleProducer-Emcee Oddisee Talks Branching Out In ‘The Beauty In All’
Last spring, producer-emcee Oddisee stayed at his Brooklyn apartment for eight weeks straight, the longest he’d lingered since he relocated from Largo, Maryland, in 2010. There, as he completed his...
View ArticleIncubus Guitarist Mike Einziger: Musical Mentor To The R&B Set
Incubus and Frank Ocean, they may not seem like artists that would ever be uttered in the same breath, but at 2012′s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival they became utterly entwined. There,...
View ArticleEminem’s ‘MMLP2′: Who Is The Real Slim Shady Targeting Now?
The bank teller lowers her pleas to a hoarse and desperate whisper: “Don’t kill me, please don’t kill me.” An annoyed Eminem insists, again, that he won’t. Then he shoots and runs. In this brief skit...
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