I had a strange realization the other day: I was getting ready to write a Mixtape Of The Week piece about Casino, Future's brother, and his Ex Drug Dealer tape, which I like OK but which I was just…   Read Story »

The fluid, charlismatic Richmond, California rapper Iamsu! is almost certainly the most consistent artist working the spacious, club-friendly West Coast ratchet music sound. Last year, I gave Mixtape…   Read Story »

I've spent some ungodly chunk of my adult life attempting to write critically about rap music, and one of the hardest things about the genre to approach is one of its simplest elemental building…   Read Story »

The Bay Area rapper and producer Iamsu! makes minimal tracks that really move and talks casual, infectious shit all over them. We posted his ridiculously catchy single "Mobbin'" a little while ago,…   Read Story »

Bay Area rapper and producer Iamsu! is at the forefront of California's recent so-called ratchet music wave -- fun, minimal, horny, utterly unserious dance-rap that's reliably some of the catchiest…   Read Story »