Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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Young Moe – Humble Hustle (2012)
One of the few archetypes that has not been beaten to death in gangster Rap is the “Everyman” – if only because no one really wants to be one. Gangster Rap has always thrived on the idea of the invincible villain that would let no man, woman or child stand in his way to riches.…
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Jackie Chain X Nick Catchdubs After Hours
Jackie Chain X Nick Catchdubs – After Hours In one fell swoop, Jackie Chain bests Juicy J at his newest game on After Hours. Over the last year, with releases like Blue Dream and Lean and the Rubba Band Business series, Juicy J has been attempting to renovate his image from terrifying manic to…
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Brother Ali – Bite Marked Heart EP
Brother Ali is one of the coolest rappers I’ve been around on a human level. At one of his shows a local DJ who had played behind big name rappers for decades left wide eyed. I heard him say “he’s just such a positive dude,” and all of his material points to that. A…
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John Brown- Burbs Life Music
It’s very hard to embarrass Hip Hop culture at this point; even Disco never had so many shameful low points. Hamsters in baggy clothes and sideways hats driving cars, The House Party sequels, a slew of horrid reality shows. Hip hop was destined to be a culture that was exploited; its uniqueness made it the…
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Yung Joey – The 6th Man
Yung Joey- The 6th Man. Over the last few years, Gucci Mane’s Brick Squad Monopoly has expanded faster than urban blight in the American Midwest. BSM is so massive that at this point the weed carriers have weed carriers, who in turn have intern weed carriers. It’s weird and sometimes exciting and even…
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Most Valuable Player of 2011: Fiend
Critical evaluation goes wrong when the critic uses the certainty that what he doesn’t cover isn’t important to insulate himself from what he doesn’t already know or hasn’t heard. The artists that the critic likes are important because the critic likes that artist. An analogy could be made of Sports writers: when an underdog beats…
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50 Cent The Big 10
The brightest musical observation I ever made came during an Eminem acceptance speech at the MTV Music Awards. Eminem ended his speech by telling the audience to look out for his new artist 50 Cent. My response was immediate “Everything is fucked up now.” It’s the smartest summation of his rise to prominence. Having followed…
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Freddie Gibbs – A Cold Day In Hell
Freddie Gibbs new A Cold Day in Hell mixtape is a very important step in his development. Everyone who is new gets a lot of “savior” buzz, and Gibbs has been no exception. He was supposed to be the savior of gangsta rap, but on previous outings like Str8 Killa, his speedbag cadence and monotone…
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Freeway- The Intermission
Freeway proves that perception is not reality; Reality is reality. He remains one of the very few MC’s who has been buried, hailed, buried again, and resurrected in the court of public opinion without ever changing his formula, or really doing anything but trying to improve. He was on a major label, dumped into underground…
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Mod Sun – Blazed By The Bell
On his website, Mod Sun describes his music as “putting the feeling of being happy to sound”. To dispute this would be incredibly difficult, since more than enough evidence exists to support the premise on his new mixtape, Blazed by the Bell (intro by the real Mr. Belding). As “Get Up” begins and the samples…
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