Is ‘Insecure’ Trolling Us? A 7-Point Observation
No spoilers here. There are a few folks who haven’t watched the show yet. Discussions this week have made it painfully obvious that this show is here to troll your dating/mating life. As we are...
Album Review: Thaylobleu’s ‘Oscars & Jellyfish’
Thaylobleu knows how to give it to you. Up in your guts with that hardcore rock & roll, Oscars & Jellyfish takes you on a thoughtfully constructed joyride. The album maintains the “truth and dare”...
Play Review: Chocolate Covered Ants
Your Homegirl’s Play Review: It was dope. Go see it. Hit the Anacostia Playhouse between now and February 7th to catch Chocolate Covered Ants, a soul-stirring stage play written by Steven A. Butler, Jr. and...
Where the @#$% is Zo Black?
Zo Black Da Rappa will make you dig that young shit. His debut album #WTFIZB Da Mixtape takes the Silver Spring, MD artist above and beyond same-age peers who are just skating by in the...
Thaylobleu, the Truth and the Dare
“I come from a planet called Anacostia,” said Terence “Sub-Z” Nicholson into the mic, though D.P. did most of the talkin’ during Thaylobleu’s May 12th show at Black Cat. The best DC funk bands master...
A Rumpshaker’s Route to Regg’go
The first time I heard of Ras Lidj was in 1998 when he was featured in one of the first printed editions of Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine. I couldn’t pronounce his name,...
Trouble Funk: The Timeless Treasure
Fans at Trouble Funk’s “Hump Day” Video Release Party celebrated the band’s 35 years of crank, plus the new music we’ve been waiting for from the go-go greats. On board the party train of brilliant...
Lounge with ‘Black Leon’ this Tuesday 11/19
Speaking of producer/emcee combos, Head-Roc just dropped a new project with all beats done by Black Ink. On Black Leon, Head-Roc’s second exhibition in 2013, Black Ink’s tracks lay a foundation for the mic maestro...
Baltimore’s Bare-Knuckle Knockout: Ambush & Kareem Ali
The flyest phenomenon to complement (and compliment) the Ali Bomaye album is playing it in the car over the course of two weeks, having various musically inclined peeps catch rides during that time, and watching...
WANTED: A Sucka Free Hip Hop Audience. Recap of Premier vs. Pete Rock at the Howard Theatre
For all future hip hop shows in DC, can we start checking hip hop credentials at the door, please? First rule: No entry for anybody wearing those dumb azz hipster glasses. Second rule: No attempting...
Grown Man Hip Hop Gems… A Cell.e.bration.
Slanguage: A Brain Cell.e.bration is the solo masterpiece of Dimensions, a/k/a Dimes, of the hip hop supergroup A.R.K. (formerly known as The Package). This album is smart and entertaining as Dimes displays the various dimensions...