Tagged Chance the Rapper

A rapper's biggest enemy is their K-12 teachers— or so many rap songs like to portray.  From Biggie’s “to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin'” and Juice Wrld’s “I remember ...

Just over a month after the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Room 25 (2018), Fatimah Warner (AKA Noname) tweeted on October 15th that she will be replacing the album’s cover art after the arti...

James Blake has quite a year approaching. He’s currently completing his European tour with Kendrick Lamar, who he helped to produce the new Black Panther soundtrack, and working on a new album which is expect...

When I heard that one of my co-workers, Carter Ward, produces hip-hop music after work, I assumed that it would essentially be a manifestation of memes targeting hometown rappers -- a classic case of a Soundclo...

This past weekend I had a conversation with a former B-Side contributor about the merits of my favorite fruitless activity: compiling my coveted year-end albums list.  As someone who takes this pointless endea...

2016 is nearly over, and with the conclusion of the year come the myriad human attempts to quantitatively evaluate the last three-hundred sixty-five days through year-end and best-of lists and rankings.  Conti...

I do not have a shrine in my room. But is my wall -- plastered with a poster of the much younger, much hotter, and much more stoned version of this nation’s president -- a place of casual worship? Absolute...

You may have first heard her on “Lost”, from Chance the Rapper’s second mixtape Acid Rap released in April of 2013. Or, if you didn’t catch her then, you probably heard her dope verse on “Finish Line ...

It’s been a big year for rap. The four biggest rap stars of the moment- Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Chance the Rapper- all put out full length projects, and Young Thug has over the summer skyrockete...

Jack Garratt has effectively proven to the world that he is a jack of all trades (pun sincerely unintended), but more impressively—a master of it all. The British multi-instrumentalist is currently on tour pr...

It has been nearly three weeks since Chance the Rapper released Coloring Book (2016), his latest work following Acid Rap (2013), 10 Day (2012), and a variety of singles and side projects, including last year'...

Hip hop is in an interesting state right now. The rise of social media and sharing platforms, such as SoundCloud, have propelled the art to places that the original MC's breakdancing out of the South Bronx cou...