WPGM Commentary: The Defiant Arsenal Of ‘Straight Outta Compton’
N.W.A. hits harder than a wrecking ball on Straight Outta Compton. The LP’s wide-ranging attacks grab the listener by the scruff of their neck, demanding...
WPGM Revisits: Eminem – The Slim Shady LP (Album Review)
So it’s 1999, Bill Clinton is still President, Millennium Dome is being opened in London and a relatively unknown rapper named Eminem releases this major...
WPGM Revisits: Dr. Dre – 2001 (Album Review)
Dr. Dre had a lot to contend with, more or less, in the years after releasing his 1992 debut classic, The Chronic. Once he was...
WPGM Recommends: The Game – Block Wars (Album Review)
California rapper The Game came to fame primarily working with the likes of Dr Dre and 50 Cent’s collaborative group, G-Unit. Since then, he’s fallen...
WPGM Recommends: Good Charlotte – Youth Authority (Album Review)
Good Charlotte are an American pop punk band from Waldorf, Maryland, that formed in 1996. Since 1998, the band’s steadfast members have been lead vocalist...
WPGM Recommends: Snoop Dogg – Coolaid (Album Review)
Snoop Dogg, of course, is a veteran American rapper from Long Beach, California. He’s sold millions and millions of records over the years, starting with...
WPGM Commentary: Hip-Hop And The Often Unheard Artists It Samples
There’s the recent curious news of Afeni Shakur’s death, mother of 2Pac, which came not so long after the death of Prince, who in turn...
WPGM Revisits: N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton (Album Review)
In August of last year, N.W.A’s very own feature film, Straight Outta Compton, earned hundreds of millions at the box office. The film, of course,...
WPGM Commentary: Is Today’s Rap Music Any Good?
The other week we discussed whether pop music was any good these days, and now we shift our attention to today’s rap music. When I...
Best New Music Of The Week // August 3 – August 9, 2015
Kinatural – “Temporary”: Premiered last week on Complex UK, “Temporary” is the debut single from UK-based trio Kinatural, which is made up of Allysa Rochelle...