Author: Demetrios

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Previously, I explained how I found local mixtapes to be a great balance between collecting physicals and tapping into my own hip-hop community in Cincinnati – there’s a…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere As an Ohio native, it’s always been disappointing that there historically haven’t been many clear-cut sounds or scenes here. There were breakouts like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Kid Cudi,…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Let me preface this by saying I have done virtually no research on Drain Gang, so prepare to hear some ignorant, disrespectful shit. I’ve always had a complicated…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Over the past year, Dave Blunts has become one of the most consistently viral artists in hip-hop. It seems like every week there’s a new clip circulating of…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere It’s a classic hip-hop trope and a constant failure of society, that Black culture is so widely enjoyed and imitated, but rarely respected. So often do the biggest…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere The East Coast underground is full of busy producers who churn out dope albums on a near monthly basis. Think of V Don, 38 Spesh, Nicholas Craven, even…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere While there’s rarely a bad word to be said of him, Blu’s career is too often reduced to his early, classic work with Exile. The reality is that…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere It’s no secret that the West Coast ran rap in 2024. Kendrick and Mustard put on for Los Angeles heavy throughout the beef, bringing gangster sounds that have…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Hopefully all the Twitter dorks who only listen to mixtape 50 or Travis Scott are done with the weird narrative that hip-hop is dead. 2024 housed so many…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Brooklyn producer August Fanon picked up a cult following after handling the majority of Mach-Hommy’s 2016 breakthrough HBO, but went relatively quiet in the ensuing years. It was…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere Just playing catch up like I said last time. It’s been such a great year for hip-hop so now’s not the time to slack off. I’ll do in…

Follow @DopeGoAnywhere I haven’t been writing enough lately – reviews especially – so here are quick thoughts on a few recent releases to get back into the swing of things….