Music
Lil Wayne, I Am Not a Human Being (Cash Money Records)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and jail time makes the rapper grow legendary. Lil Wayne’s arrest and subsequent eight-month sentence launched a “Free Weezy” campaign and creepy fan sites […]
Curren$y: The New High Life
Weed and hip-hop have a long history together. Dr. Dre’s The Chronic ushered in an era of marijuana appreciation that hip-hop has never quite gotten over. At the time, it […]
Juvenile, Beast Mode (E1 Entertainment)
Juvenile’s Beast Mode sounds like the name of a summer blockbuster. And like an action-packed mega-hit movie, the album is heavy on big explosions and light on substance. The explosions […]
Mystikal
For hip-hop, a genre even more obsessed with being fresh than pop, six years can be an eternity. Mystikal spent one such eternity in jail on charges of sexual assault […]
Dee-1, I Hope They Hear Me (mixtape)
Dee-1’s newest mixtape isn’t called You’re Going To Hear Me! or You Hear and Love Me Because I’m the Best Rapper Ever! Instead, the Louisiana emcee takes a much more […]
