Month: June 2017

• June 26, 2017

  Peeling The Layers of Damn

  Peeling The Layers of Damn by Dan-O The rewarding part of Kendrick Lamar’s album Damn is how many layers it has while not demanding anything of you. If you just want to enjoy it you can do that. I got together with my cohort Lewis Richards and we analyzed the religious themes present in the album. […]
• June 19, 2017

  Sample Snitch-I Choose You and the Willie Hutch effect on hip hop

  Sample Snitch-I Choose You and the Willie Hutch effect on hip hop by Willie Hutch The chorus for I Choose You has been lifted by countless rap icons from Project Pat, Wiz Khalifa and most famously UGK on Int’l Playaz Anthem (I Choose You) featuring Outkast. Willie Hutch infused his music with qualities that not […]
• June 15, 2017

  Song Review-Who Want It by David Banner featuring Black Thought & WatchtheDuck produced by THX

    Song Review-Who Want It by David Banner featuring Black Thought & WatchtheDuck produced by THX   by Dan-O No one is dumber than me on the subject of Black Thought. While I love and admire The Roots discography and hang on every new release the way nearly every hip hop head of my generation […]
• June 7, 2017

  Song of The Year-College Girls by P-Lo featuring Skizzy Mars

  Song of The Year-College Girls by P-Lo featuring Skizzy Mars By Dan-O People who love fun hip pop music were a little let down by Lil Yachty’s debut album Teenage Emotions which turned out to be oppressively long and confusingly muddled with several elements that don’t serve Yachty well. If you are looking for the […]