Rap has reached into weird directions when entire rap feuds can flare up and die down literally overnight. Here's the history on this one: Last year, on Joey Bada$$'s breakout single "Survival…   Read Story »

On last year's K.O.N.Y. mixtape, the well-connected Harlem rapper Smoke DZA linked with the young Brooklyn boom-bap fundamentalist Joey Bada$$ to go all dead-eyed over a mournful old J Dilla beat.…   Read Story »

The teenage Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ has built his name by resurrecting the grimy, polysyllabic boom-bap that was one of New York's chief exports during the 1990s. So in his first track for…   Read Story »

On Christmas Eve, the young Brooklyn rapper Capital Steez died at the age of 19. No cause has been reported, but the night before, Steez posted a message on his Twitter that simply read "The end.,"…   Read Story »

On "1 Train," a massive six-minute posse cut from his forthcoming LONGLIVEA$AP album, A$AP Rocky has lined up pretty much every single rapper who's had the internet going nuts in the last couple of…   Read Story »

Brooklyn's Joey Bada$$ and Carson, California native Ab-Soul, of Black Hippy, are two rappers who have had great years, and now they've linked up for "Enter The Void," the B-side to Joey's new…   Read Story »

Back when I was just a tiny bit younger than Joey Bada$$, it would blow my mind when someone like newly minted major-label artists Bad Religion would show up on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. And now…   Read Story »

Considering that New York City -- the place where most of the indie label/publicist/writer infrastructure calls home -- spent the entire week in a state of Deep Impact disaster, it's remarkable how…   Read Story »

Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era buddy Chuck Strangers lamp in a pre-Sandy Brooklyn in the video for the vintage-leaning 1999 jam "Fromdatomb$." Watch it below. 1999, a Mixtape Of The Week alum, is out…   Read Story »

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to select the rising bands which have connected them, someone wrote a long time ago. Or, something close to that. Here's what…   Read Story »