I resisted listening to this album for a long time, because yay another actor made a hip-hop album. We all remember that Jamie Foxx fiasco from a few years ago and who could forget William Shatner’s disastrous foray into making awful, if not comical, music for the masses. Then I started hearing rumblings. My friend
Jodeci, the early ‘90s naughty boys who were such fiends they had to be straightjacketed, and R. Kelly, whose raunchiest songs paled next to his real-life freakery, look almost angelic in comparison to Overdoz. Borrowing Ty&Kory’s updated definition of the R&B genre (“Raw & Bangin’”), Inglewood, California, hip-hop/funk group Overdoz’s latest album, Live For, Die For,
Start your Friday off right with a selection of music from this week’s featured artists on BestNewBands.com “White Daisy Passing” – Rocky Votolato Laurel Kathleen caught the “truly gifted lyricist and vocalist” at the Troubador last Saturday. Laurel wrote, “Though I had never heard of the soft-spoken Rocky Votolato before last week, it was clear
Wiz Khalifa had samurai sword-sharp marketing tactics long before he had the kind of weight major label money carries. Gritty and grimier than the bright poppiness of his latest, very cuddly radio cut, “Roll Up,” and the glittery free-fall of his breakout mixtape, last spring’s Kush and Orange Juice, Cabin Fever seems an attempt to
For the past few years, different trends in hip hop have been emerging quickly. From the Hyphy movement out of the Bay area to the most recent of rappers creating dance moves to coincide with their song, each trend just seems to come and go. But caught in the middle is Wiz Khalifa, an East