Tag: Future

Songs Kendrick Makes “Mask Off” the Great Song it Deserves to Be

Kendrick Makes “Mask Off” the Great Song it Deserves to Be

Kendrick Lamar Lends a Stellar Verse to Future’s Highest Charting Hit, Making it Worthy of Such Success   “Mask Off” is not the best song Future has put out this year. Hell, it’s not even the best song on FUTURE, the first of two albums that the prolific codeine rapper has released in 2017. Still, its …

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Music Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and the Hip Hop Train

Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and the Hip Hop Train

Two of America’s Lingering Pop Stars Have Adjusted to the Times With Approaches Befitting Their Current Personas   Two weeks ago, DJ Khaled released the single “I’m the One“, a swirly and skeletal track featuring Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne and an anthemic hook by Justin Bieber. Then, sometime earlier today Miley Cyrus dropped …

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Music If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

It Seems Increasingly Obvious That We’re Living in a World of Drake’s Rapid Decline, Which is Sad But Almost Unavoidable   Three days ago, Drake’s surprise retail mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late turned two years old. In rap years, that’s basically a decade, and the interim has not been overly kind to the Canadian wonder …

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Movies/TV The Music of Saturday Night Live

The Music of Saturday Night Live

The Best Musical Moments of 2016 on Saturday Night Live   I don’t go to a lot of concerts anymore. Three years of Falls Festival, a couple of Big Day Outs and a day-drunk Laneway excursion kinda disabused me of the urge to indulge in live music, as well as whatever they call those fucking …

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