We must pause to acknowledge that Ill Clinton is a great name, and has been for a long time. In two senses, in fact. It is both inherently funny and associated with a certain level of clientele & quality control.…

Nacky Chan has been a reliable co-sign over the years, generous with his resources and always on point with his taste. Chyna Baejing is another Lynn local who made her mark in ’23 with FORTY INCHEZ AND A MULE, a…

Mobb Deep or Outkast? These are the kind of retard questions that dominate The Discourse over this past & painful decade. Any real head is building out brackets in the opposite direction, exploring, not re-ranking the same hundred names, again.…

As rap names go, “MARQUISE! F.K.A OG SWAGGERDICK” is an entire feature film. There is a lot of backstory communicated in one single stroke there. As song titles go, “BAOW!” is highly accurate labeling. As Grubby Pawz beats go, this…

PFG, What Does It Mean? Prettyface Gangsta, it turns out, billed as a “new voice emerging from Fayetteville, NC.” (It’s good to see publicists finally moving on from that ol’ “rising force in the music industry” bullshit.) Being a hungry…

Last week, we wrapped up with an inexplicably weird Caev joint out of Boston. It led me to a long weekend of catching up on a lot of Beantown artists, old and new. When I was a budding rap mogul…

I had never so much as heard of Nana prior to checking this video, but he’s been around for awhile: back in 2020, DJ Booth was proclaiming him “Los Angeles’ Next Great Storyteller.” (High praise considering that was the same…

This is no comeback. Unlike so many other Old Head Albums we’ve been reviewing here at Real Yeti Rap, both Supastition and RJD2 have been back on the map for one long minute now. It would be unfair to say…

How do you write a bad review for a good kid who is doing his best? Let’s begin: Jay Cinema is a conspicuously average rapper. His rhyme schemes are simple & straightforward, his flow is conversational but meandering, and his…

One of the greatest side-effects of having sweet reference monitors in my home office is being able to bump music like this approximately as God intended. Yes, scripture proscribes many hundreds more watts of pure crossover power and at least…