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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: The day the weed carriers took over
You know how I know that major label rap is screwed? The fact that weed carriers are now being promoted as legitimate artists is both a sad reflection of the state of the music industry and a glorious...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Keep ya shirt on
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for shirtless rapper dudes. Both Lil Wayne and Rick Ross, who are seemingly allergic to wearing any type of fabric on their upper bodies whenever they perform, have...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: White rap privilege
White privilege remains a highly sensitive topic in America, as this week’s episode of The Combat Jack Show proved, as Premium Pete voiced his frustrations with Toure’s blanket statements about...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Is Tim Dog the rap game Keyser Söze?
I have to admit that I was both amused and entertained by the extensive expose on Tim Dog’s alleged “dating scams” on Dateline (all of which is handily available on YouTube). Sure, it sucked that...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: 2011 flashback
As I head over for the second Unkut Invasion of New York, it seems like an appropriate time to attempt to recall some of my exploits from the first visit. Much of it is a little foggy, on account of...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Rap won in Red Hook
It’s been an action-packed adventure so far out here in these New York streets, where during my first week I’ve hung out in Queensbridge, drunk Henny White at a BBQ in Prospect Park, live tweeted the...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Live from New York, week 2
Since we last spoke, shit has been hectic out here. Following the Rakim show on Wednesday night, I paid a visit to the legendary 45 King (the genius behind everyone from Chill Rob G to Queen Latifah)...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Live From New York – Week 3
Photo: richdirection. It doesn’t stop out here. Since I last reported in, I’ve sat in on two tapings of The Combat Jack Show for Complex, featuring Joey Bada$$ and Gunplay respectively, which featured...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: You Win This Round, Miller!
This week, while J. ‘Captain Snooze’ Cole was letting Nas down and Kanye was leaking Yeezus and dropping babies, ya boy Mac Miller went and snuck up from behind to son both of them. While I haven’t...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Jay-Z let me down… again
Just when I thought Jay-Z couldn’t get any more annoying, he goes and pulls this Samsung album shit. Since I already had a Galaxy 3 phone I thought I’d find out exactly what these “new rules” entail....
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Random rap dude sightings
So I’m safely back in Mom’s Basement after five weeks running around the east coast of the US, despite the fact that some rabid Termanology fan rammed into my friend’s truck (pictured) on the way to...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: The importance of Ka
The image of Bronx rap stalwart Percee-P standing out the front of Fat Beats, enthusiastically hawking a CD-R of his greatest songs and features, was a familiar sight to rap fans in New York over the...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Aubrey Graham > Drake
Thanks to some kind work from Long Island rap veteran Grand Daddy IU (who I’ve previously crowned as The King of Twitter), I was able to witness the YouTube gold that is Aubrey Graham’s episode of...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: How not to write about old rap
As much as I maintain that certain rap albums will never be bettered no matter what happens in the future, it’s recently come to my attention that most hip-hop released prior to the Wu-Tang Clan is...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Rap been grown
Saw this quote this morning courtesy of @JohnGotty from a Murs interview for Vans, which spends a predictable amount of time talking about how awesome Vans are, but also includes the following bold...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Kendrick Lamar – The King Of Troll Rap
It’s been a helluva few days on the Rap Internets, following an incident involving Kanye West weed carrier Big Sean inviting Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica to appear on a track titled Control,...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Secret men’s business
I recently had a conversation with an esteemed colleague who did a great job of expressing the following unspoken truth: “The whole point of rap music is that it’s a purge of all the male bullshit we...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Rap fans have gone soft
Congrats, rap fans. You’ve just proven that years of listening to smoothed-out, emotionally-in-tune rap has rendered you all into cloth-eared cry babies who find pesky things such as loud drums,...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: An apology to Diddy
Bitching about Diddy was a sport for many during the height of his choke-hold on the New York rap game, which included him being awarded the title of Greatest Hip-Hop Producer of all time in The...
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No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Vanilla Ice > Macklemore
So the dynamic duo known as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have just had their breakout smash Thrift Shop, aka the song that taught millions of little kids to drop the F-bomb, clock up over seven million...
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