Articles by Rob Boffard

J. Cole

4 Your Eyez Only

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2016

God, 4 Your Eyez Only is good.   It's like a chef serving up something simple, a plateful of tomatoes, basil and buffalo mozzarella, perhap...

Mac Miller Doesn't Perform 'Donald Trump' Anymore and Was Inspired by Bob Dylan on 'The Divine Feminine'

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2016

Shortly before we got on the phone with Mac Miller, we were advised by someone at his record label that we would get "a much better intervi...

Rapsody

Crown

PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2016

It's always pleasing when an artist who has been hustling for years finally cracks a big deal, signs to a major label, gets the budget of t...

Mac Miller

The Divine Feminine

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2016

A concept album about love would sound like the most played-out, hackneyed, overdone musical concept ever from most artists, the kind of th...

RZA Reveals Four Ways that Banks & Steelz Are Switching Lanes and Creating A New Genre

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2016

Anything But Words (out now on Warner) should not work as well as it does. The collaboration between Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and Interpol's Paul...

Banks & Steelz

Anything But Words

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2016

While Banks & Steelz — the union of Interpol's Paul Banks and Wu-Tang Clan's RZA (under his Bobby Steelz moniker) — may get some unfortunat...

Dreezy

No Hard Feelings

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2016

There are few subgenres more intimidating to rap newbies than drill. It's bass-driven, slang-heavy, gutter as fuck and, if you're a purist,...

The Game

Streets of Compton

PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2016

If 2015 was the year Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar led a triumphant parade down the streets of Compton, 2016 is when the Game comes along, a y...