Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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Museum mixtape review
Rashad-Museum review by Dan-O Most of the listeners who played Lincoln Way Nights: Intelligent Trunk Music in their vehicle found it hard to hate. It was a marriage that felt like it should last forever, the everyman insight raps of the likeable Stalley over the dusty thump of Rashad production. The two faded into each…
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Lloyd Banks-V6:The Gift review
V6:The Gift mixtape review The problem with Lloyd Banks mixtapes is not simply a problem of misogyny. Lloyd Banks might have a very balanced and favorable view of the opposite sex. He certainly does not have one in regards to groupies. If you listen to early Banks verses on G-Unit tracks they were winks and…
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Upon Further Examination—The HoustonReport
Upon Further Examination—The HoustonReport by Dan-O Any time all the artists from one region start releasing material claiming to bring their region back…the region is not doing well. A lot of time it’s a harmless device to show the MC as a Neo/Luke Skywalker figure. When everyone starts doing it you know it’s something more.…
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songs of the year-Turnbuckle Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7KNpVk7RI Smoke Dza featuring Action Bronson-Turnbuckle Music I’m not sure what I love more, the deadpan Action Bronson first line “Once again this the quintessential stud muffin” or the fact that at some point in the process of making the years best pro-wrestling inspired song Smoke Dza and Bronson agreed that they REALLY needed a…
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Problem-Welcome To Mollywood 2
by Dan-O Few artists have put the screws to me the way Problem has. He was supposed to be THE Cali Trap Rapper, which really didn’t work out. Problem started popping up on everyone’s track to drop fantastic hooks, and good guest verses. While asking people about him, explaining that I might give him a…
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Joey Bada$$-1999
by Dan-O The day before I heard the debut Joey Bada$$ mixtape 1999 I was in Wal-mart talking about how staggeringly important Illmatic is. Not just that it’s a classic album but that a teenage street kid can go from unknown to burning lyrical imprints upon generations of listeners. For those that think of rap…
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Chance The Rapper-10 day
Chance The Rapper by Dan-O Chicago never seems to make headlines the right way. Now that the murder rate is trending at 38% higher than last year and Chief Keef is gleefully symbolizing it, the spotlight is back. The Chicago drill scene isdeep with catchy hooks about street code, Young Chop beats, and gun shot…
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Chris Faust – Villian Issue One
Brooklyn rapper Chris Faust may have found the richest conceptual metaphor of the year. He is releasing a trilogy called Villain setting him and fellow underground rappers up as comic book villains. He explores the metaphor from an interesting perspective, never going the horrorcore direction, but maintaining that what makes hip hop and Faust himself…
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IAMSU! – KILT
There are a lot of factors that should be taken into account when discussing why artists destroy the sound they worked hard to build and replace it with something new and unsatisfying. Look at Mac Miller, for example; he came up making fun, silly music and is now trying on different introspection suits that just…
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Stalley – Savage Journey To the American Dream
Ever since Savage Journey To the American Dream dropped on March 30th, I’ve been walking around telling people about Stalley, the normal guy from Ohio who raps about being normal and driving around, who got picked up by the Maybach Music Group. This mixtape is his first full project post-Ross influence. It establishes a few…
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