Lav's Music Corner

One year ago the day this list is being posted Florida rapper XXXTENTACION was tragically shot and killed far too young, and to remember his greatest works and legacy we're counting down our top 10 X songs spanning his entire career discography to find his most shining moments. 10. What In XXXTarnation If there is one characteristic of X that kept him in the minds of so many young people all the time it may have been his incredible and persistent memeability. One of the most clear moments of self-awareness in his brief career came on What In XXXTarnation  where he proved his connection to meme culture and the youth that devour it with a song right at the "What In Tarnation" memes height that helped further jumpstart his career in the wake of Look At Me!  and is a pretty damn good tune on its own. 9. #IMSIPPINTEAINYOHOOD Though it may have not been peak X memehood those who have been around him for a long time certainly remember when Sippin Tea In Yo Hood was a ...

Lil Pump is a Florida rapper who came up on the SoundCloud wave with a series of viral low-fi bangers like Gucci Gang  and D Rose . He dropped a self-titled mixtape in 2017 that scratched a unique itch for senseless and hard hitting trap bangers with stunning consistency. Despite being one dimensional the tape impressed with sharp execution of a specific formula. Since then Pump has skyrocketed in popularity being named to XXL's Freshman list last year as well as dropping numerous singles. Many of those tracks land on this album and the very hit or miss track record he had over last year and early 2019 doesn't inspire much confidence for a project noticeably longer than his first.  Review By Lavender: I like many people wrote Pump off at first as a guy who wrote a decently catchy song that blew up by chance, and it turns out that I like many people, was completely wrong. He has proven to not only make solid appearances throughout his first two years of relevancy, but als...

Members Only is a hip hop collective that has consisted of XXXTENTACION, Ski Mask The Slump God, Wifisfuneral, KiD Trunks, Rob Bank$, Flyboy Tarantino and many others through its half a decade run and this is the 4th and potentially final project from the group. Since 2015 they have been dropping groups projects full of distorted trap bangers that solidified the Florida Soundcloud scene. On the back of X's huge hit Look At Me  they collective popularized some of its more keynote members and the Vol. 3 edition of their project spawned some underground trap hits. But after the departure of Wifisfuneral, the popularizing of Ski Mask The Slump God and the tragic death of XXXTENTACION, mixed with the lack of singles leading up to this project it was hard to speculate what it may sound like and who it may feature.  Review By Lav: My expectations for Vol. 4  were very tempered, after the short and unfinished Skins  last year I didn't anticipate much new X music tha...