Best New Bands » Wiz Khalifa https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: Childish Gambino – Camp https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:15:07 +0000 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

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/feed/ 0 Overdoz’s “Live For, Die For” Doesn’t Just Think about Freek’N You https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/overdoz-s-live-for-die-for-doesn-t-just-think-about-freek-n-you/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/overdoz-s-live-for-die-for-doesn-t-just-think-about-freek-n-you/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000 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,

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  1. Now Taylor Gang That: Wiz Khalifa’s “Cabin Fever” is for the Forever-Fans 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...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-march-4-2011/feed/ 0 Now Taylor Gang That: Wiz Khalifa’s “Cabin Fever” is for the Forever-Fans https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/now-taylor-gang-that-wiz-khalifa-s-cabin-fever-is-for-the-forever-fans/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/now-taylor-gang-that-wiz-khalifa-s-cabin-fever-is-for-the-forever-fans/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:00:00 +0000 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

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/now-taylor-gang-that-wiz-khalifa-s-cabin-fever-is-for-the-forever-fans/feed/ 0 An Artist Profile: Waken and Baken with Wiz Khalifa https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/an-artist-profile-waken-and-baken-with-wiz-khalifa/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/an-artist-profile-waken-and-baken-with-wiz-khalifa/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:00:00 +0000 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

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