Tag Archives: Buff1

Paint That Sh*t Gold!

Hopefully some of you went out and peeped Ann Arbor, Michigan-based emcee Buff1’s sophomore LP There’s Only One when I told you to a couple of months ago. If you did you know that Ypsilanti, Michigan-based beatmaker 14KT — who is a member of both the Lab Techs producers collective and, like Buff, the […]

The Cool, the Buff, the Dark and the One With Glasses

Another one of my favorite acts, Queens, New York emcee Cool Calm Pete, dropped a new sort-of single earlier this week. It’s a laid-back dedication to Summertime indiscretions with the fairer sex set to a soulfully dilatory trot of a beat a catchy vocal sample called “Gitty Up Baby” and is available as a […]

Let’s call it the Great L(Bre)ak(b)e(at)s Region instead, okay?

I’ve long questioned the logic of calling Michigan, Ohio and Illinois (which are all less than a day’s drive from New York) “the Midwest.” They’re not really in the middle of the country and are all geographically closer to the East Coast than the West. I mean c’mon… Detroit? Cleveland? Chicago? Midwest? The last people […]