Mckenzie Sullivan
Travi$ Scott is hands down one of the most exciting up and coming hip-hop artists of 2013. Currently signed to Epic Records and T.I.'s Grand Hustle imprint he’s also signed to Kanye West's Very GOOD Beats as a producer. Travi$ co-produced the songs, "To The World", "The Morning" and "Don't Like", and also produced and contributed a verse to "Sin City" on Kanye’s Cruel...
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Recently a lot of people have been asking me if I like Action Bronson...so I figured i'd feature him this week for those who don't really know who he is. Action Bronson is the 260 pound, ginger-bearded, Knicks hat-wearing, blunt smoking rapper you’ve been seeing all over the Internet. And yes, I love him.
A native of Flushing, NY, before Bronson started rapping he was...
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This week my awesome new friend got me hooked on Chester Watson.
Chester is a 15 year old rapper and producer from St. Louis, Missouri. He's also the co-founder of a movement called 'Nü Age' which represents a handful of up and coming rappers, producers and clothing designers. Chester's third mixtape "Phantom" which dropped earlier this year has an old-school, story t...
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One of the groups I've just recently started to get into is the quick-spitting duo known as The Underachievers. The UA have created some serious buzz in the last year by dropping a string of compelling rap videos, including one that recently hit over a million YouTube views, “Herb Shuttles.”
The Underachiever's: Issa Dash and AK
Earlier in February The UA dropped ...
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In lieu of this evening's INSANE news that Kendrick Lamar will be performing on Slope Day, I have decided to share some of my all-time favorite K.dot songs.
For those of you who may not know, Kendrick Lamar is THE rapper right now. A native of Compton California and a member of West Coast hip hop supergroup, Black Hippy, Kendrick dropped his first studio album 'good ...
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This artist has been around for a while but has never really had his HUGE moment so I feel like he is appropriate for this week's memorandum. If you haven't already heard of Logic he's an insanely dope rapper from Maryland that I want to be friends with.
Logic is kind of like the Girl Talk of hip-hop. He mixes samples of popular instrumentals by Kanye, Nas, Kid Cudi, B...
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I was realllllly feeling Flatbush Zombies this week. As school work starts to seriously pile up there's nothing like some super agressive underground rap to get me from through my walk from ctown to central....
The Flatbush Zombies are an insane trio- there's Darko, Juice and their producer Erick Arc Elliott. All born and raised in Flatbush Brooklyn and friends since th...
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Yo, so Trinidad James JUST started rapping in February of 2012......
His mixtape Don't be S.A.F.E is pretty insane for a guy that just started rapping 10 months ago. The most successful song off the tape 'All Gold Everything' is literally everywhere. I hear it at frat's, on the radio and it's sparked a couple of pretty hilarious parodies (see here). Some people ...
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Joey Bada$$ is it right now.
I've been listening to his mixtape 1999 which dropped in June and it is hands-down the best mix tape of 2012. It seems like he's been everywhere recently....he's featured on "1 Train" in ASAP Rocky's new album Long.Live.ASAP. It was also rumored that Joey would be signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label; however, in an interview earl...
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Dropped January 11, 2013
2011 was Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky’s year. His mix tape Live.Love.A$AP was the best thing coming out of NYC and he exploded onto the rap scene. He had a fresh sound, braids, gold teeth and drank 40s in all his videos. He seemed like the answer to New York’s rap savior complex. So, there was a lot of hype when Rocky announced a 2012 studio a...
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