Mr. Miranda - Big to Somebody Check the story - it's mad real to make some money off of music. It's even more to have someone be genuinely affected by music. Mr. Miranda rhymes the story about a family feeling his words after the death of their son. Real shit right here. Visuals by Artie Art of the Convo. Benjamin Fly + Bouji - Came Up With all the work Bouji and Benji are putting out, it's hard not to think they're two of the hardest working in AZ right now. This collab dire

We decided to stop being so damn confusing and combined our two podcasts. Now the FloTape will be our interview and mixtape show. This episode we chopped it up with super producer/beat maker extraordinaire Charlie of Mumbles of Truminati. We discussed Injury Reserve's No Jumper podcast, the state of affairs in AZ hip hop, and Charlies residency in NYC this summer. Charlie can be found at: @charlie-mumbles-1 www.instagram.com/charliemumbles/ @ThirdEyeBryan | Twitter Feature

With shows from Tucson to Phoenix and artists from Flagstaff and Tucson coming to Phoenix, no matter where you are this weekend, there is something for you. Please go support the promoters, artists, and venues putting on dope shows in Arizona. You all know that some people don't think we have a scene here, right? Our pick of the week, despite this weekend being full of super dope shows (Mouse Powell with Hollowpoint y'all; The Stakes and Mega Ran; house party shows; Sal Marce

TruVonne x NovTheZoner x Milla - Worried Bout You This track comes in like a 90s RnB songs. You know the ones like the Only You remix where the rapper spits an intro verse and then the RnB song starts. Except here, that's not really the case lol. It's Milla and Nov spitting verses with TruVonne contribution being the chorus, a little verse on the breakdown, and a cute laugh sample. All around dopeness. Diego Francisco - House to House Who hasn't gone to a crazy lit house part

People claim Phoenix doesn't have a hip hop scene because it's not Atlanta. Injury Reserve talks about Phoenix hip hop on No Jumper like there's not a scene. Can we all stop this nonsense??? First, Phoenix may not be Atlanta, LA, or any other place some transplant to Phoenix has lived in or some city where a dude visited his homie and had a bomb weekend seeing some hip hop shows. *sarcastic voice. Let's be real - those comparisons are ridiculous and unnecessary. Why? Because

Garin Chadwick dropped episodes 3 and 4 of his Nice Show with super nice artists Charlies Mumbles and KY Sluggah. Episode 3 features Charlie in the studio and at home talking about being the "biggest rap star in his complex" and how he got started producing. Yo @ the part when he says RJD2 is one of his influences! Episode 4 has KY Sluggah spitting straight bars to start. Around the 4:30 mark KY freestyles about random words being thrown at him. Dude is mad talented and it's

Injury Reserve are the dopest thing coming out of Phoenix right now. We know this. We've dm'd and @ every one of their accounts to try and get them on the FloCast - including going through Soundcloud messaging which you wouldn't know is a thing if you only used the mobile app. Any ways, the trio's Live From the Dentist Office and Floss are two of the most unique sounding hip hop albums in all of hip hop, not just stuff coming out of AZ. After getting shine from Anthony Fantan

On the 2007 Coachella documentary, there are two interviews that contrast each other. One is an interview with Saul Williams talking about how music can change the world politically. The second is Liam Gallagher from Oasis saying how he thinks artists who make statements like that are full of shit and overly-idealistic. Now music may not cause revolutions or throw powerful world leaders to their knees but it still has the power to educate. Especially in this time of fake news

Bouji's Sideline Money is a proclamation distinguishing the rapper from everyone else rapping or trapping or as hip hop knows, doing both. On Slim Jesus Vanilla Ice, he tells the listener he's not those gimmicky white rappers that came before him. The contrast of who Bouji is not, spit with mad creative bars comes at the end of the first verse when he distinguishes himself from the perception that white dudes are all college students. He raps: I ain't never went to college, d

The Stranger EP isn't as much a hip hop album as much as it's influenced by rap music. However that's not to say it seemingly wasn't also influenced by 80's pop rock, hair metal, James Brown's funk, lo-fi, and indie rock. All in all Rubix's trademark is making fun music. If music diversity is not your thing and you prefer hip hop then you're covered here as well. Although it's not over typical beats, the Jaca Zulu and Marley B. assists will satisfy your appetite. More Than Me