A few years ago, the veteran Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy linked with the producer Alchemist to release Return Of The Mac, a deeply excellent album of wizened soul-sampling New York tough talk. Prodigy…   Read Story »

We saw Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt at SXSW back in March, and he made his Coachella debut on Friday night sporting tie-dye and a bucket hat. Flying Lotus (aka Captain Murphy) DJ'd, and the set…   Read Story »

Last night, Tyler, The Creator served as the musical guest on the Late Show With David Letterman, and he brought Odd Future compadres Earl Sweatshirt and Domo Genesis with him to do the…   Read Story »

MellowHype's new album Numbers is imminent, and the Odd Future duo of Hodgy Beats and Left Brain are building anticipation by giving a bunch of new songs away in what they're calling MellowHype Week.…   Read Story »

For the first full-length Odd Future project since Channel Orange, Domo Genesis, the crew's resident sleepy-eyed stoner, has teamed up with the Alchemist, the veteran rap producer who has become…   Read Story »

Do you ever get the feeling that someone is niche marketing directly to you? So: Four rappers I like, all going in hard over a chorus-free spaced-out Alchemist beat, and then naming the result after…   Read Story »

Tyler, The Creator is not done with his directing career! Tyler did the video for "Sam (Is Dead)," a Tyler/Domo Genesis track from The O.F. Tape Vol. 2, under his Wolf Haley alias, and it's a trip…   Read Story »

Harlem's Smoke DZA will drop Rugby Thompson later this summer, a record that will be produced entirely by Harry Fraud and from which we've already heard the wrestler-referencing lead single "New…   Read Story »

A few days ago, MellowHigh, the Odd Future duo of Hodgy Beats and Domo Genesis, hit us with their Lex Luger-produced track "Timbs." Today, they've got another one called "Go," a prettily zoned-out…   Read Story »

Last year, I interviewed Odd Future livewire Hodgy Beats and asked him about Odd Future's since-relaxed policy about refusing to work with most outside collaborators. Hodgy said, "I'm not hating or…   Read Story »