Music Video: Hassani Kwess

The good thing about having friends in other places, is learning about the music scene in their respective cities. The homie Young Scolla directed me to this joint by Hassani Kwess, a rapper out of the DMV area. His mixtape 'Tron' drops tonight at midnight and I'm assuming will be made available on his bandcamp page. He recently dropped the video for one of the mixtape tracks, "Midnight Bravado," shot in D.C. and directed by Jay Dexter, a D.C. based photographer and videographer. The song definitely reminds me of the 90s, specifically his flow and delivery reminds me of Common Sense (around that time of "I Used to Love H.E.R."). My interest is definitely piqued in this guy and if the joints on Tron are anything like this, it should be something worth listening.

Yay or Nay: Smiling in Ya Face - Mark Milly

Every once in a while I would get an @ reply from a Baltimore rapper,who at the time I thought nothing of. Not that I thought he was crazy,but I didn't think it was a big deal he was following me. I don't know what led me to his page, but there I saw a video of one of Lucky a.k.a. Mark Milly's recent performances which really sparked my interest in the MC. The 20-something MC decided he wanted to rap when he was 12 and drew influence from Snoop Dogg, Master P and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony before starting a group in middle school. In recent years (long after the disbanding of that preteen rap group) Lucky has been focusing much on his own career and like many young MC's, he shows promise. Yay or Nay: "Smiling in Ya Face" - Lucky a.k.a Mark Milly.