Key clocking the works, son
For LA Weekly I wrote an article about rapper and songwriter Gizzle. Also, I talked to rapper and producer The Koreatown Oddity. Check Gizzle’s EP 7 Days In Atlanta, shorty got bars. She’s like the Dolly Parton of rap, meaning, she pens hella songs, or in this case, raps for a lot of popular rappers. TKO was a humble cat […]
Talked to rapper Bambu about his project “Prey For The Devil” for LA Weekly
Rapper Bambu’s eighth studio album Prey For The Devil cuts through like a box cutter to the face. It’s a tightly executed thematic album and it’s one of my favorite albums of last year. OJ the Producer and DJ Phatrick’s production works like a stage for a rapper who uses his words for a molotov cocktail. […]
Something I wrote for L.A. Weekly
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of 2Pac’s debut album 2Pacalypse Now, I wrote something for L.A. Weekly about how that record influenced me as a kid. Pac’s career only lasted for a five-year blink-of-an-eye span. He was twenty-five when he passed. This year he was nominated for the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. He wasn’t a saint or […]
Just wrote something for LA Weekly about Uncle Jamm’s Army
I just wrote an article for LA Weekly. It’s about L.A. mobile DJ crew, Uncle Jamm’s Army (UJA), founded by Rodger Clayton aka Ace of Dreams aka Mr. Prinze. From the late 70’s to the mid 80’s, The Army was king. Nobody was doing it like them, nobody. After working on this piece, I started to speculate that […]
DJ Zesto’s “The New Laughing Gas” OUT NOW!
For TMG readers that don’t know, this artist is my boy. I’ve written about him here and here. After years of fits and false starts, DJ, producer and emcee DJ Zesto has at last released his debut album The New Laughing Gas. In January of last year he dropped the single, “The Pleasure Principle” and then […]