In honor of the NBA I asked the MJF crew to list a favorite song from a current/former basketball player, or something in relation to the sport. The results are below! Bauce Sauce Follow @BauceSauce Shaquille O’Neal – “You Can’t Stop The Reign” ft Notorious Big Basketball players rapping are often terrible. The best they [...]
In 2003, Chicago MC Chancellor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, was 10 years old. At that point, it’s unclear whether the “rapper” surname was a predetermined pseudonym for Chance or a product of an the era in hip-hop to come for the 312. But, while rap was being bowled over that year by [...]
The Slimed_10 selects mark our second collaboration with the mysterious PIZZA SLIME conglomerate (“10 Wet Songs” here). When I gave them a shoutout in The Guardian they reached out and wanted to build. We share a mutual love of Half Baked and that’s about all I know. That and they’re music industry insiders gunning for [...]
Anyone who knows anything about comfort and/or sadness is familiar with the art of the favorite sweatshirt or sweatpants, or both. You might spend years unknowingly looking for the right leisure clothing item and then suddenly when you least expect it, it happens. Day after day you end up thinking about how as soon as [...]
The Dream. Mr. Falsetto. Mr. I Wrote For Most Pop Artists Since 2005′s fifth studio album is ready for your listening pleasure. The delightfully ratchet “Pussy” which features Pusha T and Big Sean is worth an immediate listen. As expected, The Dream is rater r on this one. The kids need not press play. Tracklist: [...]
Better late than never. I missed out on the greatness of British singer/producer Bipolar Sunshine but no longer thanks to Pizza Slime’s MJF post. I mean, holy vocal power. He just radiates cool. And that same quality transcends into his music. Quick percussion, relatable lyrics present an undeniable groove in “Rivers.” And what a damn cool [...]
Brooklyn based band Lemonade pop electronic band that caught my attention with jams like “Perfect Blue” and “Soft Kiss” which led me to find this remix. While there are a holy amount of remixes of this band’s songs, this remix by NY based mysterious new artist Dart Party renews the original song posted nearly a year ago with [...]
“Don’t Try” is another golden tune from Manchester-based Everything Everything. As the band’s second single off their sophomore album Arc, the song’s upbeat tune and crisp falsetto make it ripe for summer. Listen below and see them on tour in the UK this summer. Arc is available now on iTunes.
Lil Wayne had an indefinite run. His verses from 2006 to 2008 were semper fi. On good faith you could assume he would pummel a track into oblivion. Weezy went “hard like a Brett Farve spiral.“ 2007′s Da Drought 3 is one of the greatest mixtapes of all time and perfected a model that rappers will use [...]
Pure Bathing Culture is Partisan Records new signing making some soulful pop from duo Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille. As the first single of their debut album, “Pendulum” premiered today at Gorilla Vs Bear. Induced with subdued electronics, their new song bathes you in dreamy synths and shimmering guitars that easily conjure’s the luscious scenery of their new home [...]
The all too often overlooked subgroup of OFWGKTA has returned! Jet Age of Tomorrow, the duo of Hal Williams and Matt Martians (The Internet) are releasing their third LP this friday at oddfuture.com. Its called The Jellyfish Mentality, and we’ve also been blessed with a new track entitled “ON!” Today we also got the album [...]
We just posted about the new Wolf Colony and their unmissable songs over the weekend, but the mysterious NY-based artist surprised us today with a new song. “Youth” tranquil tempo and nostalgic lyrics about Nintendo and hide and seek ease you back into your carefree childhood where fun and innocence dominated your every action. We’d probably all [...]
Leftovers is a recurring feature in which we dig up a deep cut from a well known artist’s discography. The first Leftovers will cover a song from the oh-so-divisive Kanye West. There was a time when Kanye West could just annihilate a punch line and take a theme for an entire verse and run with it. [...]
Jason Goldwatch’s video for Action Bronson’s Harry Fraud-produced banger “Strictly 4 My Jeeps” features a jeep, big booty women, RiFF RAFF and more in Queens, NY. Support the single on iTunes. Hope you’ve got the woofers in your Jeep
Drew Taggart and Alex Pall City aka The Chainsmokers are a Producer / DJ duo based in New York that have created credibility with a long list of undeniable remixes including Two Door Cinema Club and Little Daylight. Now they’ve done and remixed one of my favorite songs of the last year/ever in Say Lou Lou’s “Julian.” Showering the song [...]
Let’s face it, the rap world is filled with tons of terrible musicians so expectations are pretty low when I hit the ‘play’ button on an unfamiliar artist’s SoundCloud. With “Finally”, the beat pleasantly caught my ear by surprise then when the Grand Rapids native started rapping it almost immediately became apparent that this kid [...]
