Issue 55

Wow! Franklins is back. What made the bear wake up from its pit? Well, truth be told, it’s no new young artist, crazy revelation about a new genre or similar. It’s because of two topics: Kanye West and Future’s Monster

Be The Spotlight

I try to get all the best hip hop throughout the year. But there’s so much hip hop released every day (!) that it’s impossible to keep up. Hence, once every January I try to sit down and scrap the web for songs and albums that I missed. On the note of summarizing the year, …

Active

There’s a lot happening in hip hop nowadays. Perhaps because we’re exposed to it more. I suppose it’s because that hip hop generally have popular artists that are very young today. Young rappers are ridiculously active on social media such as Twitter and Instagram and the hip hop magazines are just having a field days …

No Rest

The theme this week is no rest. As a musician, you’ll have to keep your audience happy by releasing new albums, EPs, LPs, singles, features and what not. The amount of mixtapes and albums that are released each year is mental. Kevin Gates releasing an album from prison is a proof of how hungry the audience is, …