Tag Archives: Soulja Boy

Dear Q-Tip; Thanks for Not Sucking

One thing music lovers of every stripe can agree on is that they just don’t make ‘em like they used to. The cliché holds true for both today’s artists and the veterans of the olden days who are still around, and is applicable to music regardless of genre. No matter how much I […]

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 5 — Rappity-Rap Edition

If you shuffle the letters in the word “rap” you really only come up with “par,” a Golf term, and “Arp,” an old-school brand of synthesizer. I think there are even fewer anagram options if you use the term “hip-hop.” But that’s neither here nor there because today’s “shuffle” special is an all […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]