Tonight, rapper Stalley performs at the Howlin Wolf. Although he hails from Cleveland, he worked with local director Brandan Odums/Bmike (nominated for a Best of the Beat Award for Best Music Video) for a tour through New Orleans in this video for his song “Babblin’”. Produced for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the video [...]
Tag Archives: Rap
YouTube du Jour: Fiend/International Jones
December 2, 2011 – 10:15 am
In the new December issue, Drew Hinshaw looks at the 2011 output from the JETS crew—the New Orleans smoke-centric rappers who were almost absurdly productive this year. Curren$y has the highest profile among them, but the rest of the bunch—Fiend, Trademark, Young Roddy, Corner Boy P, Street Wiz—will play a late night show at House [...]
Elespee and Prospek, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music (Guerilla Publishing Company)
December 1, 2011 – 12:51 am
Like OutKast’s flagship Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and Isaac Hayes’ soul odyssey “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” before it, Elespee and Prospek’s Quantumetaphysicadillac Music pushes musical boundaries and puts the urban landscape in perspective. “Morality’s a luxury / Survival is a must,” Elespee raps over a woozy, nostalgic jazz-funk groove in the opening verse of “Milk & Honey,” a song that sizes [...]
A Busy Year for Curren$y and Fiend’s JETS Crew
December 1, 2011 – 12:17 am
We begin with your once-every-five-years Fiend update: The ex-No Limit rapper-slash-grizzly-bear-throated drug linguist is still making records—mixtapes, mostly, charming on the whole. If you grew up during the break-up of New Orleans’ rap empires, this news comes as a delight, like an ancient comet spotted orbiting back towards Earth, taken as harbinger of the reemergence [...]
Happy Thanksgiving: A Big Freedia Animated GIF
November 24, 2011 – 1:46 pm
Nothing says Thanksgiving like an animated GIF of Big Freedia and her dancers poppin in downtown New Orleans, taken from Freedia’s “Y’all Get Back Now” music video. Source: eatcasey.tumblr.com.
Voodoo Experience Highlight: DJ Tony Skratchere
November 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
DJ Tony Skratchere began as a breakdancing B-boy in the late 1980s, progressed to skating and graffiti in the 1990s, and then settled into his current role as a master of the turntables in the early 2000s. Throughout it all, Skratchere, also known as Ben Hebert, has revolved his life around his two real passions—music [...]
YouTube du Jour: Paasky
October 25, 2011 – 12:46 pm
Paasky made a mark on the local hip-hop scene last winter with his mixtape Suggested Retail, helping the young rapper receive a nomination for Best Lyricist at the New Orleans Underground Hip-Hop Awards. His new mixtape, Priority Shippin’, takes Paasky’s powerful flow even further, setting it in front of head-nodding beats of slow-basting ’70s soul [...]
Dapwell on Das Racist’s Slacker Rock Rap
October 11, 2011 – 1:04 pm
Das Racist, performing at the Howlin’ Wolf tonight, is breaking molds in the rap world with their unconventional marketing and musical sound. The group’s racially satirized lyricism in their free online mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man landed them considerable attention. But group members Himanshu “Heems” Suri, Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez and Ashok [...]
YouTube du Jour: Kourtney Heart
October 11, 2011 – 11:55 am
Teen R&B singer Kourtney Heart released this second video for her song “My Boy” last night. The new video is for a remix featuring Soulja Boy that first came out in February this year and received heavy radio airplay. Gone from the original version’s video are the backup dancers and cameos from late collaborator Magnolia [...]
The Winners at the New Orleans Underground Hip-Hop Awards
October 9, 2011 – 12:04 am
The New Orleans Underground Hip-Hop Awards took over House of Blues and Decatur Saturday, October 8 for a celebration of the local hip-hop community and its best work of the past year. Twenty-two awards were given out, voted on by the public and a panel of judges (disclaimer: OffBeat was represented on the panel) from [...]
