WORLD PREMIERE!!! We're very proud to present a project by one of our own today, as the good homie
M-Bomb drops his latest mixtape,
A Story No One Told. The Waterloo emcee calls this his "most personal release to date," and appropriately for such an introspective project, the mixtape is mostly feature-free, with the exception of a guest verse by
emcee/producer A-Fos (who also mixed the project) on
“Boom/Get Out The Way.”
Production-wise, M-Bomb does double-duty on
“How The Story Begins” and
“While You Were Sleeping,” with the remainder of the mixtape sampling from a number of the "most influential producers and artists" in his lifetime: classics from DJ Premier, Kanye West, Just Blaze, Exile, and Nottz Raw are all there.
Along with the release, M-Bomb has teamed up with a number of talented visual artist friends to create one-of-a-kind pieces of art for each song. The ten canvas pieces will be auctioned off next Saturday at his
mixtape release party, with all proceeds going to UNITY Charity.
Stream/download the mixtape below, and read what M-Bomb had to say about the project after the jump.
Since rap has basically reached pop status, is it acceptable for a rapper in 2015 to have co-writers, ghostwriters, and writing teams just like pop artists? It's basically accepted in every genre, but rap seems to be different in that way.
There are two sides to the debate:
One side: What matters is what the final product is, and what's coming out of the speakers. It doesn't matter who did what, as long as the end result is dope.
The other side: We expect rappers to be authentic, to keep it real, to have skills and showcase them. What's an emcee without their rhymes?
What do you think? We put it to our writers to discuss. Read the roundtable after the jump.
Update: Drake has 
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