A little #TBT post. Partially posted to prove to a friend who thinks I’m prejudiced against Gunplay and Chief Keef unnecessarily (even though I’ve posted music by both of them). I happen to think both in their past have, frankly, been a cancer on hip-hop but Gunplay seems to have matured and I’m willing to admit when either of these dudes is catching a bad break and to post music by them when it’s actually good. Having Kitchen favorites, Stalley and Curren$y on board too doesn’t hurt either!
Yasiin Bey‘s commentary on the spate of police brutality cases in the US inspired by graffiti and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Love!
Two salvos in the #DrakevsMeek war and a couple other CDQ’s for tracks Aubrey premiered on his new Apple Music OVO radio show. Or am I wrong here? I’ve been told that “Hotline Bling” might be another dis track??
My take on this in this so-called beef could be way off but I feel like Meek Mills, after opening this can of worms, has been largely M.I.A. and taking crazy L’s? Dude was here in The 6 last night on his girl, Nicki Minaj‘s Pinkprint Tour and, with the eyes of the whole world (or at least hip-hop twitter) on him, was poised to drop a neutron bomb in response to Drake’s dis tracks and then… nothing??! Someone s’plain this to me, please!
Beef aside though, as a bonus, hit the jump for Drake’s cameo on Wizkid‘s “Ojuelegba (Remix)” also featuring buzzy UK grime MC, Skepta which dropped a couple weeks back ICYMI:
we’ve featured Chicago artist, Goodbye Tomorrow here at The Kitchen before. This is another very solid track featuring fellow Chiraq native, Lil Herb.