Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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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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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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