ALBUM: Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late (2015) Label: Cash Money // Genre: Hip-Hop // RIYL: Degrassi, Excessive Contemplation, Triumphant Bragging and Crippling Self-Consciousness in Quick Succession // Best Tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 // Grade: B+ For about the last four years, Drake has pretty much been on a constant victory lap. His out of-the-blue release of If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late moved… Read More
We know you’re all getting stoked for Grooveyard this Friday, but before Big Freedia frees your minds and asses, WRMC will be hosting a community discussion regarding how we can be mindful consumers of art and music in our pluralistic society. Starting at 5 p.m. this Thursday in The Orchard (Hillcrest 103), our discussion will touch upon the history of New Orleans bounce music, twerking, cultural appropriation within… Read More
With Ron Liebowitz departing our dear college following this academic year, it is widely acknowledged the school will face a staggering drop in twerking. Fear not, Middleburians, for we have just announced that Big Freedia, world record-holding twerker, Queen of Bounce and transcendent being of light will be headlining our annual fall concert, Grooveyard, on Friday, November 7 in the Bunker. Big Freedia is… Read More
What do you want out of life? What’s your grandest ambition, your most personal desire? What small idea motivates you through each day, and swims in your mind as you fall asleep? For Tupac lookalike, Young Jeezy hater and Gary, Indiana’s best rapper, Freddie Gibbs, the answer is a piñata filled with cocaine. “I mean, what… Read More
In the first four minutes of Schoolboy Q’s new album, Oxymoron, he says the word “gangsta” 67 times. Actually, 66. His 4 year old daughter, Joy, kicks off the album with the line “Fuck rap, my daddy a gangsta,” cementing her place as the hardest 4 year old in the rap game. Through the first… Read More
