Email AuthorPhillip Mlynar
The Worst Rapper Names Of All Time, Besides Shorty Shitstain
November 02, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Featured Entry
Detroit Rapper Danny Brown Doesn't Remember What He Did Last Night
November 01, 2011 in All Shook Down
Danny Brown, engaged in a favorite pastime. "I smoked so much weed I don't remember what I did last night. I don't know what the fuck is going on with this...
The Hip-Hop World's Bizarre Co-Sign Of Justin Bieber
October 31, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Featured Entry
In Defense of the Game -- Our Last Honest Gangsta Rapper
October 26, 2011 in All Shook Down
The Game performs at Regency Ballroom this week. Lately, The Game, who performs at the Regency Ballroom on Thursday (Oct. 27), has been psychoanalyzed as some sort of rapping mentalist. Armchair...
Live: Vex Ruffin Helps Stones Throw Take Its Next Step
October 24, 2011 in Sound of the City
Featured Entry
The Top Five Classics From Quannum, the Bay Area Hip-Hop Collective
October 21, 2011 in All Shook Down
Lateef the Truthspeaker performs at Mighty tonight. With a line-up that includes cut-and-paste maestro DJ Shadow, innovative rap duo Blackalicious, and the spirited funk styles of Latryx, the Quannum collective is...
Big Freedia's Top Five Celebrity Asses
October 20, 2011 in West Coast Sound
The Top Five Portishead Cover Songs
October 18, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Featured Entry
Metronomy's Top Five Remixes of Other Bands
October 14, 2011 in All Shook Down
British electronic ensemble Metronomy plays the Rickshaw Stop tonight. Back in its home country, Metronomy scored a coveted Mercury Music Prize nomination for its last album, The English Riviera, which...
Featured Entry
Brooklyn's Nitty Scott MC Gets A 16-Bar Break On BET
October 13, 2011 in Sound of the City
"Oh, snap, it's the real-life rap Halle Berry..." And lo, with 16 bars rapped over an instrumental spun by underground hip-hop gate-keeper DJ Premier, a new star was born at...
Featured Entry
Ten Highly Entertaining Videos By Biz Markie
October 13, 2011 in Sound of the City
Biz Markie is hip-hop's most brilliant buffoon. An adept beatboxer, endearingly entertaining rapper, and deliberately awful singer, Biz coined classics during hip-hop's late-'80s golden era and rolled with Marley Marl's...
Featured Entry
Sounds Go Through The Muscles: Bjork's Top Ten Hip-Hop Connections
October 10, 2011 in Sound of the City
Coming to you from heaven's art gallery: "Triumph Of A Heaven." As you may have heard, Bjrk's latest album, Biophilia, has been specially designed to work best on an Alphasmart...
Five Hip-Hop Album Covers That Would Make Insanely Difficult Jigsaw Puzzles
October 07, 2011 in All Shook Down
Featured Entry
Lupe Fiasco: Hip-Hop's Greatest Whiner
October 07, 2011 in All Shook Down
It's time for the hallowed halls of hip-hop history to start giving Lupe Fiasco his due respect. Not, you understand, as a purveyor of conscientious rap music bursting with positive-leaning...
Featured Entry
How To Get Signed: Stones Throw Artist Vex Ruffin's Tips For Getting Your Demo Tape Heard
October 06, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Vex RuffinA correction was issued for this post. Please see the bottom of the piece. Most aspiring music artists who hope to get noticed nowadays have similar, tired routines. They...
Featured Entry
Five Hip-Hop Snitching Controversies
October 04, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Keffe D claims to have helped murder TupacYesterday LA Weekly brought you the shocking revelations of former LAPD detective Greg Kading, whose new book Murder Rap fingers Suge Knight for...
Featured Entry
A Dissenting Opinion: Let's Quit It With The Live Performances Of "Classic" Hip-Hop Albums
September 30, 2011 in Sound of the City
Back in 2007, All Tomorrow's Parties and the Pitchfork Music Festival decided that getting GZA, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident rhyme scholar, to reenact his crime rhyme masterpiece Liquid Swords in...
Just Blaze Speaks On The Wide-Ranging Controversy Surrounding His Cat, And Its Fake Twitter Account
September 30, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Featured Entry
DJ Shadow's The Less You Know The Better: A First Listen
September 29, 2011 in All Shook Down
Let's get this out of the way right from the off: DJ Shadow's fourth solo studio album, The Less You Know The Better, won't finally stop long-time fans from requesting...
Featured Entry
Pictures Of Rappers' Cats, and a Snoop Dogg Feline Bombshell!
September 27, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Just Blaze's cat Rags Lauren9:23 PDT Update: Just Blaze rescued his cat, near death, in a thunderstorm! But, the cat doesn't live with him, but rather at his studio! We've...
Afrika Bambaataa Plays Tomorrow, Inspires Our Top Five Electro Anthems Of All Time
September 22, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Featured Entry
Five Pop Songs Ruined By Glee
September 19, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Glee's GQ shootYou've got to hand it to Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, and the rest of the cast of the TV show Glee -- they certainly have a special talent...
Five Great Jimi Hendrix Samples in Hip-Hop Songs
September 13, 2011 in All Shook Down
Featured Entry
Shock G and Smif-n-Wessun Talk Tupac's Eating Habits: "I Never Seen Him Eat a Vegetable, Not Once In The Five Years I Knew Him"
September 13, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Tupac, Buckshot, Tek and Steele at the L.A. mansion (we think)Editor's Note: Today, September 13, 2011, marks the 15th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death. To commemorate, West Coast Sound is...
Live: Danielle Ate The Sandwich Gets A Little Too Cute In Brooklyn
September 12, 2011 in Sound of the City
