Rap history in the moment by @vacayvacayvacay & @Yoh31
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🚨World Premiere🚨
May The Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story is now live on @YouTube
Directed by @vacayvacayvacay
Produced by @RapPortraits m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_LQmp…
Ib & The Family That Dreams (Documentary) youtube.com/watch?v=zf6_tXb8…
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One of the highlights of modern music is how many producers are making life changing beats in their bedrooms
During our time with @DjDahi we got a chance to hear him speak on Kendrick Lamar and "Money Trees," a pivotal song in both their catalogs. More on our time with Dahi: rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
During our time with @DjDahi we got a chance to hear him speak on Kendrick Lamar and "Money Trees," a pivotal song in both their catalogs. More on our time with Dahi: rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
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A few years ago Inglewood-born producer Dahi (formerly DJ Dahi) invited Rap Portraits to a recording camp. With Dahi's debut album coming out in a few weeks, it feels like the perfect time to write about the experience at The Village
Rap Portraits enters the only studio to house Freemasons, meditating monks, coked-out rock stars, a Louisiana martian, and every kind of musician imaginable for a recording camp to remember.
An Invitation Into The Village by @Yoh31 rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
Rap Portraits enters the only studio to house Freemasons, meditating monks, coked-out rock stars, a Louisiana martian, and every kind of musician imaginable for a recording camp to remember.
An Invitation Into The Village by @Yoh31 rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
“Go! Go! Gorilla” and “White Flag” see Vince return to his calm, almost apathetic, delivery he’s perfected over his last three albums: Vince Staples, Ramona Park Broke My Heart & Dark Times.
Albums I Wanted To Listen To After Vince Staples’ Cry Baby: rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
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"It’s summer, and I’ve had Duckwrth and The Kickdrum’s Nowhere on repeat for weeks which, in my opinion, remains his best project. Nowhere and Cry Baby feel like siblings to me, both stained red, an extension of each other."
An essay exploring the depths of Vince Staples’ latest album “Cry Baby” by intertwining the listening experience with four other projects that present a similar texture rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
An essay exploring the depths of Vince Staples’ latest album “Cry Baby” by intertwining the listening experience with four other projects that present a similar texture rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
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Received this thoughtful essay back in June from A.L. Mckee on their experience listening to Vince's new album and the web of connected albums they were reminded of while listening.
Albums I Wanted To Listen To After Vince Staples’ Cry Baby a guest essay by A.L. Mckee rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
Albums I Wanted To Listen To After Vince Staples’ Cry Baby a guest essay by A.L. Mckee rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
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Love Table of Context (which is a clever switch out for Contents): Q: Why is Rap Portraits starting a zine? A: To get you to read. BOOM💥 That's important!
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As a small team figuring out creative ways to tell our stories, grateful to everyone who has reached out with kind words about the zine🙏🏾
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A true privilege to write a comic with @Yoh31 for this issue of Imprecise Words. I hope you all read and enjoy. A few sample panels:
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Seeing this post inspired us to include the comic Fourteenth Ward, Floating World illustrated by @iamNFrancis in our latest zine. Hoping to include more comic work in future issues rapportraits.substack.com/p/…
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Next week turned into several weeks but I promise it'll be in your inbox tomorrow morning for our subscribers. It's really dope and a good representation in our efforts to combine the written word, photography and illustrations substack.com/@rapportraits
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Of all the singles released during the blog era, Dom Kennedy's "My Type of Party" was one of my favorites, and I didn't know until speaking with him that Dahi produced it.
From Dom Kennedy's "My Type of Party" to Kendrick Lamar's "Money Trees" Dahi (@DjDahi) explains the defining moments from early in his career.
From Dom Kennedy's "My Type of Party" to Kendrick Lamar's "Money Trees" Dahi (@DjDahi) explains the defining moments from early in his career.