Blog: The Smoking Section

Phil Adé plans to make his Fridays fruitful as he drops his fifth release under the PhilAdeFriday hashtag. Over the past two months the Maryland rhymer has sporadically dropped video remixes of his favorite tracks, such as D’Angelo’s “Devil’s Pie,” owning them enough to avoid pissing off purists. Last week, in lieu of Prodigy’s prison release, Phil tackled the ten-year-old Mobb Deep single “Burn,” a safe but respectable choice in avoiding anything from The Infamous . On "Take It Slow," Adé slides smoothly through Havoc’s beat with an unpolished metaphor mastery [...]