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20 min read 2021-12-13 23:47:42

The 30 Best Albums of 2021

Back in June, SPIN published The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far), rounding up everything from mainstream rock to experimental hip-hop. Six months

1 min read 2021-12-03 02:04:22

A grainy and distorted video of J Dilla, Madlib, Yasiin Bey, J. Rocc, and Peanut Butter Wolf’s full set from Montreux Jazz Festival has

5 min read 2021-11-25 03:04:03

A guide to this year’s Record Store Day releases, featuring crucial compilations of hazed-out funk and soul rarites, bulked-up anniversary editions

1 min read 2021-11-16 04:04:58

Madlib treated the crowd at Day N Vegas to a set brimming with previously unheard collaborations. Madlib cracked the vault wide open for his third

1 min read 2021-10-31 07:01:07

RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020) Geng PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on

1 min read 2021-07-27 15:00:00

Dancing the fine line between several genres, multi-national trio Typical Sisters have just released their third full-length, Love Beam, via Joyful

2 min read 2021-04-07 05:44:09

At Ambrosia For Heads, we celebrate Hip-Hop throughout the ages. Earlier this year, our What's The Headline podcast launched a series examining the

7 min read 2021-04-06 04:04:02

De La Soul, Madlib and MF DOOM are the inspiration behind some of hip-hop’s most coveted Nike SB Dunks. Here is the story of how those collabs came

5 min read 2021-03-11 02:13:43

PASSAGE is a curated mental health and wellness initiative created by Okayplayer. The program was developed to amplify the collective stories and

2 min read 2021-03-10 09:02:22

Just weeks after selling half of his stake in Ace of Spades, JAY-Z made another power move. Hip-Hop's first billionaire mogul sold his stake in

18 min read 2021-03-01 22:00:00

Which month is more cursed into awkwardness, December or January? As far as the music industry goes, the answer is really; they both are afflicted by

4 min read 2021-02-22 14:16:25

Photo by Roberto Flores Please support fully reader supported music journalism by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon. Will Hagle plays

9 min read 2021-02-19 07:10:02

It’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with Geng, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see

1 min read 2021-02-11 23:48:34

Madvillain’s hand-drawn audiovisual bomb is now available to watch in pristine definition. Like many of the world’s purveyors of (official) MF

1 min read 2021-02-09 03:47:05

Every Saturday at 2pm Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin get together to talk hip hop and nonsense. It’s a half-hour of laughs, context, and wisdom from