Posts By Craig Jenkins

Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 Atlantic: 2012 Rap album sequels are risky business. In invoking the name of a much loved work, a sequel either successfully piggybacks the acclaim of its…

Slaughterhouse – Welcome To: Our House

9/16/12 | By Craig Jenkins | 10 Comments

Slaughterhouse - Welcome To: Our House Shady Records: 2012 How’s this for an idea: take four technically gifted rappers with more flops under their belts than successes, and put them in a group together. Give them an album, the entirety of…

Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t

8/1/12 | By Craig Jenkins | 7 Comments

Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don’t Def Jam: 2012 For the record, we shouldn’t even be having this conversation. 50 Cent murdered Rick Ross. We all heard the flurry of diss tracks. We all saw the photo of William Roberts in…

Open Mike Eagle – 4NML HSPTL

7/10/12 | By Craig Jenkins | No Comments

Open Mike Eagle – 4NML HSPTL Fake Four: 2012 “The truth is your thoughts and not what you said. Language is prison for what’s in your head. The thought is a mountain of matter. The word is a shred of…

How Not To Respond To Frank Ocean’s Sexuality

7/9/12 | By Craig Jenkins | 20 Comments

Unless you live under a rock or were a victim of thunderstorm-inflicted power outages this week, you’ve probably heard about Odd Future affiliated R&B singer Frank Ocean’s big revelation over the Independence Day holiday. After one attentive blogger went to a listening…

Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate

6/11/12 | By Craig Jenkins | 1 Comment

Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate Warner Bros: 2012 Poking around the net this week I encountered an ad billing New Orleans rapper Curren$y’s new album The Stoned Immaculate as his “debut LP”. Not only is The Stoned Immaculate Curren$y’s fourth release of 2012 so…