The Mixes: Keeping a Current With What’s Current
By: Daniel Hodgman The Mixes is a Bonus Cut series that focuses on themed mixtapes. The purpose of this series is to share music in hip-hop, but also to share the ability to express feelings through...
View ArticleAlbum of the Week: Ugly Heroes Self-Titled Debut
Ugly Heroes Ugly Heroes Mellow Music Group Daniel’s Thought One of the gripping realities about life is that it’s cruel and unfair no matter what kind of character life’s thundering blow is hammering...
View ArticleA Bonus Cut Feature: An Interview With Detroit Rapper Red Pill (Part One)
Chris Orrick (aka Red Pill) of BLAT! Pack is a rapper from Detroit, Michigan who is emerging as a positive voice in hip-hop. Pill’s delivery is both sophisticated and to-the-point as it treads on...
View ArticleA Bonus Cut Feature: An Interview With Detroit Rapper Red Pill (Part Two)
Chris Orrick (aka Red Pill) of BLAT! Pack is a rapper from Detroit, Michigan who is emerging as a positive voice in hip-hop. Pill’s delivery is both sophisticated and to-the-point as it treads on...
View ArticleBLAT! PACK, Common Ground Music Festival (Put Yr Revolvers Up)
By: Justin Cook This past weekend, I attended the Common Ground Music Festival in the heart of Lansing, Michigan. I have attended my fair share of music festivals, but never one within city limits—this...
View ArticleBonus Cut Says “Thank You.” Listen to “The Kick” by Red Pill and Hir-O
By: Daniel Hodgman and Gus Navarro Bonus Cut has been around for almost a year now and in that time we have grown. Looking back on this past year, we would not be where we are today without the...
View ArticleBonus Cut Films Presents: An Interview With Raphael Downes
The hip-hop scene in Lansing, Michigan is an interesting one. It seems to rise and fall with the student population that comes and goes every four years from Michigan State University. There are also...
View ArticleBonus Cut Presents: An Interview With Red Pill
By: Gus Navarro Photo Credit: Jeremy Deputat Red Pill was the first rapper I interviewed for Bonus Cut back in May, 2013. At the time, he was working at a factory, had put out The Kick with Hir-O in...
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