Category: Slander

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 in my 20’s, I had everyone’s baseball card stats memorized. As I get older, it…

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 year that D Smoke dropped Black Habits.) Based entirely on this track, I am both…

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 RJD2 ever left, he’s just been quietly independent since 2010, especially in contrast to his…

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 actual bars read like first drafts or journal entries. Yet he says it himself on…

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 two subwoofers in the trunk, but I abide with what I got. Yakiyn is a…

After a decade straight of continually lacing New England artists with memorable heaters, seeing “Grubby Pawz” is all it takes for me to check something out in 2026. This time, pressing play was a curveball to the face. My initial reaction to starting this video was to check if I had some other audio playing…

Algorithmic fishbowls make it harder every year to actually discover new music. Recommendation engines only offer up more of the same sad slop. In fact, Youtube remains so baffled by my spectrum of interests it mostly offers me videos I’ve already seen; an implosion into total defeat. I have to put in real work to…

After a month straight of daily reviews, it’s safe to say Real Yeti Rap is back in business once again. That business has seen better days! Music criticism, especially the kind made by humans, is a dwindling field and getting smaller every year, too. This is necessary, this is good. The legend of Cameron Crowe…

Last week, I wrote that living legend The RZA has “lent their co-sign to a lot of questionable nobodies over the years.” This week, I am writing about Myalansky. It’s interesting how much highly authentic cocaine rap came out of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, right? You’d almost have to wonder if the US…

I have never once heard G Herbo half-ass anything. A technically gifted rapper and a brilliant, conversational writer, any & all arguments that G Herbo is slept on are inherently valid. Except the one about how “If He Was From New York…” because that’s just not plausible anymore. Gotham used to crown kings, but the…