Last summer, Pop Smoke’s music––guttural, raw, irresistible––coursed through New York’s clubs, car stereos, yawning apartment windows. Born Bashar Barakah Jackson and raised in Canarsie, on Brooklyn’s Eastern shore, the young rapper had broken through with “Welcome to the Party,” a hypnotic study in tone. That song’s video opened with a group of young men invoking the names of those dead or imprisoned, while a red-lettered warning about prop guns flashed on the screen; the beat itself is grim and Gothic, the lyric full of threats. And yet it did feel like party music, somehow, capable of cutting through the humidity and making swaths of people dance, or at least move their shoulders a little bit while they grimaced into their phones’ cameras…
Shabazz Palaces have danced on quasars, touched gangster stars, transmitted radio waves of Uptown Saturday Night and Superfly to black holes for a decade now. But every space mission is a round trip.…
News of Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats’ collaborative EP, UNLOCKED, began as a war cry. The SoundCloud rap pioneer took to Twitter to draw some attention — and it worked. “ON LOTTO WHEN I SEE YOU…
This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we make two phone calls to Atlanta legends, chopping it up with Big Boi and Sleepy Brown to discuss their collaborative project The Big Sleepover and…
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