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Gone are the trees and sunlight, replaced by recurring lines about brackish waters and thick clouds. There's hope and humor, but it's tinted darkly. He talks a lot about how little he cares what strangers think of him, which could mean he cares quite a bit. But I still refuse to believe in the loop. The Mac who goes out on an apparent overdose, that's their Mac—the one that gossip-mongers assumed he'd be. But our Mac was neither a foregone conclusion nor a closed circle.
He was open, and bigger than any vessel that would contain him. I must've followed him out to that pylon six times as he subsumed a pack of smokes and 16 shots of espresso. His body stayed on this crude circuit but his mind traveled to loftier climes. I've seen human beings on every single drug and love takes the cake. Love is some seriously powerful shit.
And I'm a lover, man. Now one artist is now claiming the hit song was a ripoff of her own. After the tragic news broke, it re-entered at No. The top 59, really. I can't believe you aren't here anymore. I really can't wrap my head around it. He was a caring, loving human with a smile that could light up the sky and a soul that was out to make the world a kinder place and the MMCF will continue to do just that.
Tickets for the event, set for Oct. The flyer for the show was designed by Mac's brother Miller McCormick. MMCF aims to help young people in underserved communities by giving them access to programming and additional resources centered on creativity and community building.
He made a quantum leap in his music. I grabbed the nearest guitar in the room and within a couple of hours we had finished a tune that made me so incredibly happy to have a part in, not to mention we established a nice little friendship. Mac was, to me, on permanent LOL status.
I gave him whatever guidance I thought I had the right to, having been through the press ringer in the past and wanting him to understand that none of that noise could ever really take a bite out of the music he was about to put out.
He was nervous, and honest about it with the audience. His band was unreal. Mac put in the work. He made his best album and formed the band that was weeks away from becoming a breakout live sensation. Believe me when I say that. I send my love and support to everyone who knew him better, because what relative little I did, I just adored.
We done played it so much we like, 'Oh yeah, this the one. After surviving a drive-by shooting that resulted in the deaths of his brother and two close friends, Ace was immediately incarcerated for a probation violation, which prevented him from properly grieving for his lost loved ones. Despite these unfortunate circumstances, the Florida native remains hopeful about his own future, and that his dream will not be deterred by any means. So how does one manage to remain so ambitious despite facing multiple hardships?
Yungeen Ace recently sat down with Complex to detail his experiences. One look at Ace's upbringing reveals that he is accustomed to unfavorable conditions. Growing up with seven brothers with only their mother to care for them, he quickly realized he had to work hard to support his family.
Music speaks for me. I got a message, and somebody gonna want to hear it. Somebody is gonna hear it. I decided to speak my truths. We can figure it out. We can put it somewhere down the line. No matter the artistic discipline—whether music, design, or film—the meshing of perspectives can elevate an original work from noteworthy to transcendent. His father showed him West Coast rap, like Dr. Roach gravitated toward both sounds, and actually picked up an interest in writing poetry—which would soon evolve into a passion for jotting down lyrics and spitting bars.
Image via Mcabe Gregg. His participation allowed him to receive guidance from industry tastemakers and access to full audio and mixing equipment, aiding the young rapper in refining his unconventional sound and sharing it with the world. The veteran director was thrilled to take on a mentorship role. It was cool to have that refreshing, super energized, innocent energy. While the technology was invented in , adidas Originals has updated and combined it with the more modern Boost technology and a midsole stabilizer.
The resulting product is a stylish, functional, and entirely novel footwear concept. Early on, the year-old would use a single, dangling light bulb as a crafty and cost efficient lighting technique. Now, Awful is playing a new and advanced game, and it all comes down to Father's leadership. Just months before, in June, it was announced that he and his label had inked a creative partnership with RCA. This is a look at how Father secured the bag and repositioned the Awful brand to level up after a few quiet years.
This is how he made those deals happen. During his Mexico City appearance, he was almost struck by a falling object during his set. After the object makes impact just a few feet away from him, the singer continues without missing a beat.
While the cause for the incident hasn't been confirmed, it is possible that the weather may have contributed to it, as it rained heavily for the duration of the performance.
XO affiliate and manager Cash posted a video to his Instagram which showed just how many people were willing to brave the inclement weather to watch Abel's stellar performance. But brought the Toronto-based producer to a whole new level. Here's the story of how it all came to be. And that's just a taste of what's to come in terms of his next album.
All that other music be cool Either way, expect a whole lotta gangsta shit from 21 Savage sooner rather than later. Check the video about how the Atlanta rapper came to this conclusion. ComplexCon attendees try to figure it out. He's befuddled that you found this page. Watch Sean Evans interview celebrities with some burning questions. Sneakers, clothes, tech, food—nothing is safe. Tony Mui flips the camera and vlogs the daily office life.
Watch exclusive interviews and much more here. Watch for exclusive in-depth interviews, behind-the-scenes moments, and exclusive content. This series examines a deeper understanding of each other, our culture, and the passions that inspire us. Watch Season 1 and be ready for Season 2, with episodes coming every Tuesday and Thursday. Join Jinx as he sits down with the creatives who are driving music, fashion, and art forward. From eating bugs to traversing through London for the best burger, catch Sean tasting the food you love as well as the food you question.
Form eating bugs to finding the best burgers, catch him taste testing these foods here. All the while, Zac is confronting his own demons Come along for the journey, there will be an amazing guest list of hip-hop royalty celebs who share N. Alvin's breakfast-sandwich empire in Los Angeles put him on the culinary map, but it's burgers that are his true passion.
A struggling actor who scrambles to make a living. He pulls Josh into a series of misadventures consisting of women, self-discovery, and social media relevance. Old tweets, photos, and videos spark hilarious and embarrassing interviews. Your favorite artists tell the story of a funny, unique, or pivotal moment in their career, and we animate it. This is two football players arguing over what spot has the best post game wings or whose shoe game reigns supreme.
Super Bowl champion Martellus Bennett will host alongside James Davis and Ben Lyons as they chat about the lifestyle around the game: the fashion, the shoes of course , the Tweets, the eats, the locker-room tunes, and all the off-field topics.
The show is fun and light hearted, and filtered with the DNA that makes Martellus such a one-of-a-kind personality.
He's a big kid and a geek at heart who's super curious about the world around him. We'll preview the Thursday night matchup, review the week that was in the NFL and discuss the upcoming slate of games. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of , making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He was murdered in Pac was a one in a lifetime MC and it's tragic that his life had to be cut short. She is also the wife to hip hop superstar Jay-Z. She is the queen of the game right now, and has just welcomed a baby girl to this world.
Platinum-selling albums and sold out tours is Beyonce's forte. Obsessed with the release of the new Yeezy Boost? Common is the conscious rapper that even trap rap fans can get into for his lyricism and realness. Diddy, is the ultimate entertainer and entreprenuer. He is the founder of Bad Boy Records. What doesn't Diddy do? In , Diddy introduced his own brand of vodka, Ciroc.
Alcohol, music and all of the above, Diddy has been killing it for well over a decade. He got his start in the game by managing one of the greatest rappers of all time, Notorious B.
Prior to that he was an intern and backup dancer. The Lil Wayne co-sign doesn't hurt either. Drake's ascension has been fast to rap's elite class. Chart domination, high-profile endorsements, and consistently masterful rhymes keep Eminem on our radar.
He's a living legend. There's no other way to put it. He has since had a public falling out with Cash Money and has had a series of islolated successes. In he will be dropping his new album, Rejuvenation, distributed by Rap-A-Lot records. Jive signed Miguel in '07 and they wont be regretting that anytime soon. He blew up was a solo artist with his Neptunes produced track, Superthug. As of recently they haven't drop a lot of work together, but we are all keeping our fingers crossed that they bless us with another classic.
Pharrell has been on the cover of Complex Magazine twice and is highly regarded in the style world as a trendsetter and tastemaker. He blew up in the early 's on the Def Jam label.
He is the foundation of the legendary group the Geto Boys and has had an unreal run in his own career. Face has made some classic material and is a true legend in the rap game. No one has ever rapped with the spped Twista does and he has had some dope records.
His earliest songs on Soundcloud date back to July of After making major waves on the web, he has recently begun touring and connecting with fans on the road. It made me an animal. Founding editor of VIBE who came up in the game.
Diep is a contributing writer at Complex Media. He likes the Internet. In early July, the streaming platform laid off employees amid rumors the company only had enough capital to make it to the end of Chance the Rapper even claimed he was going to save the day.
Independent musicians panicked about what this meant for the future of distributing their music. A lot of the music is groundbreaking, much of it is not. Rappers who built their fan bases on SoundCloud have started to phase out of the system that birthed them.
With that said, here are some of the biggests artists dominating SoundCloud. In fact, it might not even be correct to call Peep a rapper anymore. Her project Tales of Tacobella is one of the best of With the right push, the song and the story behind it have the potential to go viral. For the rest of the list, go to Complex dot com. With a relaxed, conversational flow and an eye for detail, B. King Tee doesn't get more credit.
Ides malt liquor commercials. E was feeling Redman's blend of bugged-out humor, boisterous energy, and futuristic funk flows. Dre was not the only Funk Doc in the rap game.
That's the sound of the police! It was a break from both the name and mostly in-house production of Boogie Down Productions. DJ Premier, Kid Capri, and Showbiz offered marquee production, which immediately drew attention to the project as a revitalization of the MC. The sound finds KRS-One bridging the gap between the '80s and '90s boom-bap styles while shoring up his reputation as one of hip-hop's preeminent lyricists and most distinctive stylists pay attention to his frequent use of dancehall-inflected cadence.
And with them El-P declared war on the status quo of a genre that didn't even have a status quo 10 years earlier. But by or even , when the track was recorded , corporate hip-hop was very much a thing, and major labels were looking for groups with potential hits and an MTV-friendly image, not ones whose intricate wordplay required repeated listening.
Len, Company Flow was made complete by the addition of second rapper, Big Juss, shortly thereafter. It's a graduate thesis of an album, one that influenced countless groups that came after. But that's not why it's on here—it's on here because it was fucking dope. While Houston served as catalyst for national stardom its skyline figures on the album cover , it's Memphis' soul that informs the tone of the MCs' verses.
They rap in ode to the town, celebrating the struggle that gave voice to generations of musicians before them. This is an album that constructs an identity through deft cherry picking of hip-hop's musical forbearers, ultimately making sense of the potential to make locally respected music geared to a national stage.
The answer, in his case, is pretty much everywhere weird he can take it while still ticking off the boxes that constitute rap—especially Rawkus Records-style conscious rap.
The overall result is an album that's explosive, revelatory, and, yes, conscious in the best way. The release did two things: helped LL Cool J reclaim his respect after putting out a rectal sneeze of an album, and introduced the world to Redman.
Every track flowed into the next but the sounds were varied enough to not be redundant. DJ Scratch lost his mind on turntables with his cuts. Not a bad thing to be. There were conscious women who rapped about love, relationships, and social responsibility, like Lauryn Hill.
And there were women like Queen Latifah, who advocated for the unity of all women with a more explicitly political edge. And then there was Lil Kim.
The first lady of Junior M. It was something that Kim—and his fans—relied on a year later when he passed. And it was all juxtaposed with images of her flaunting her assets in diamonds and pearls. She was Hollywood but still hood. Biggie passed, Kim grieved, and was left to preside over Junior M. In the end, she didn't have him to guide her subsequent projects.
Nas cut a mafioso jig with the best of the Bad Boys plus Foxy. It was the '90s, all right. Pac supplied the raw materials; he codified gangster rap, made it at once raw and high minded, laser-focused and emotionally fraught. He blended transformed this regional stew into unlikely national superstar hip-hop. To popular history, it's been overshadowed by its biggest single, an exuberant, celebratory vehicle that efficiently introduced his label roster with a bang.
Particularly KLC's sparse, noir-esque piano lines, combined with an incomparably tight bounce, gave P's best cuts a coiled energy. KLC also brought on board a new superstar, Mystikal, who would go on to become a national hip-hop hero but at this point was primarily concerned with destroying every single song he was on.
The group, as its name foretold, rapped about pretty horrific shit—robbing, killing, and having their way with multiple women. And for the most part, they all did. When Mase became the newest member of the Bad Boy team, his promise to get Puff mad more cream was very apparent. When you want to entertain, you want to effectively communicate. That means you make your flow easy to digest. The album shined brightest, though, when he got back on his gutter shit.
It helped that some of the dopest rappers from both NYC and the South came along for the ride. It's just too bad he couldn't keep shining. When a gangster rapper is doing his job, he'll be accused of both at once: too real, and too unreal.
His lyrics on the song caution that there's no negotiating with the trigger. He made murder through music an art form. Beats by producers like E-A-Ski and Ant Banks reinvented the liberating ideology of '70s and '80s funk to its desolate opposite, a ceaseless soundtrack to armored survival.
Spice 1's ragga-washed, stuttering vocals gave a sense of continual, gripping control. Balancing the brutality was melody, which granted a reprieve from the ruthlessness, and also disguised it. Paul, J and Lord Infamous R.
The beats are simple s and loops shot through with a horror movie's worth of foreboding keys and villainous cackles. The bars are lilting, melodic, and triplet-heavy. But this album is more than just a gang of veterans' firsts. It's a masterpiece of grimy New York outer-borough rap. Walt and Evil Dee, whose beats draw on everything from Frank Zappa to Miles Davis, vacuuming out the treble and leaving us with nothing but filthy low end.
Pete Rock's affinity for rare jazz samples brought a fresh vibe to rap, which at the time had always used easier-to-find lifts from the likes of Bob James, Grover Washington Jr. Smooth set a mark by bringing a cerebral rhyme style with very little cursing. Pete's rhymes contributed just enough to show that he could carry a verse. Indeed, Nas, Rae, Meth, and Big Noyd slide through with the cameo knowledge as always, felonious as ever. The concept was a joke that got fleshed out after the record company took it seriously, as Shock would later tell it.
But its sheer sprawl and the group's fearless commitment to following the groove wherever it took them are its redeeming strengths.
Puffy's ghosted croon, before we knew him mostly for shouting. The LOX ripping shit up. Carl Thomas cue swoons. You might say he's an out-sized hypeman whose musical presence is gratuitous, per se. Yet nearly 20 years since Biggie's passing, Puff's held his legacy together. On the strength of duo's success, Tony Draper's label, Suave Records, inked a new distribution deal with the Sony-backed Relativity Records and gave the new venture a more grandiose name: Suave House.
It was one small step for Southern rap, one giant leap for pimp kind. The album presents a deeper exploration inside the teenage tough-talk and gangsta reverie of their earlier records, the result of two men whose success had moved them outside of their bubble and afforded them the opportunity to reflect on their world with clarity. The move away from samples was likely motivated by business concerns as much as creative ones there's a reason the first two albums are not available on Spotify or iTunes , but it produced a fuller, more distinctive sound that stood up against Dr.
Dre's big budget beats from the mid-'90s. They're the rap equivalent to Batman in those Christopher Nolan movies—stars of the show wholly eclipsed by their unstoppable co-star. Lyrically, Dap and Melachi had the best of intentions.
Frankly, if it'd been an instrumental release, it would be much higher in this countdown. Hardly as thoughtful as Scarface's ravings, but the menace and energy's all here. You'd be forgiven for thinking Danze was riding shotgun next to you, ranting as he slapboxes the dash. Black Thought is at his terse, eloquent best, while Dice Raw tosses a couple of the strongest of his many hit-and-run grenades that are strewn across the Roots discography.
Meanwhile, the guest list is a buffet of star-making turns by fellow Philly MCs on the verge of storming the mainstream Eve and Beanie Sigel and rappers who had been pulled into the Roots' orbit to create a new renaissance of conscious rap, like Mos Def and Common. Yeah, he's a brilliant lyricist, and a exceptionally charismatic human. But there have been lots of cool guys who rap great. Why has Jay Z dominated hip-hop for nearly 15 years, while others have come and gone?
He needed to evolve, or risk being left behind. X stripped down New York rap to a new emotive, hardcore sound, while P was instrumental in breaking Southern rap's radically different aesthetic into the mainstream. Probably on the pole. It remains the biggest hit of Jay's career, because it assimilated the hardcore, pan-regional sound of into an easily digestible package right when the masses needed something new. When so many of his '90s peers were digging their heels in, unable to adapt, Jay showed he was eager to embrace new ideas.
Over the years, Jay has been criticized for hopping from trend to trend, and for being insufferably arrogant. But his habit of always chasing the zeitgeist—which is really to admit that the people's whims are more important than your own—is a humble pursuit that has given him his enduring power.
Indeed, the album is that dark. A nimble, chaos-theory-minded street philosopher, Jeru keeps the lyrics A-grade throughout his debut. Still, the package, as a whole, remains timeless. Diamond D's ambition was in beat wizardry, and his ability to make that work was pure insanity. The Diggin' In The Crates crew emerged and grew from the success of this very album. It covers mostly two topics: sex and grisly street scenes pretty much reliably switching back from track to track , and it does so convincingly.
And not just because the LP employed deep bass, funk samples, and a multifarious crew of MCs. It felt like that because it was. It was a direct, extremely unexpected shot across the bow of the entire West Coast courtesy of a then borderline old school rapper. And suggesting that Dr.
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