Biggie Smalls

Ask yourself, when you listen to music, do you really listen to what the artist is saying? Can you hear the technicality of the internal rhymes as they’re rapping, and how they’ve mastered that against the beat, as well as using play on words so smartly, that they’ve managed...

In the summer of 2017, Floridian rapper XXXTENTACION released his debut commercial album, 17. The album is everything a summer album shouldn’t be: sad, bleak and hopeless. Even taking into account this controversial approach, I was still very surprised by the several negative reactions to the album. Music reviewer...