With reliability always comes some degree of perpetuation. There are several factors that keep me coming back to Bay Area rap artist J. Stalin, the majority of... Read More...
Like many rappers who don't go national (or, in modern terms, viral), J. Stalin's contemplations don't reach the Me-against-the-world scale and scope of Tupac ... Read More...
When does generous turn to wasteful? We are living in rewarding times. No music publicist and journalist can go without telling us that so-and-so artist 'shares... Read More...
Visually, the chronological precursor to J. Stalin's "Tears of Joy 2," "Avatar," looked like the poster for a hood horror flick that would risk copyright infrin... Read More...
Rappers, where would they be without producers? Producers set prosaic narratives to exciting music. They attune words to what rhyme writers hope to express. The... Read More...
"You ain't never been in a car when niggas went to murder
I ain't never changed, nigga - that's on purpose"
("Rockstar" - 2016)
As chatty as he can come acros... Read More...
