Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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Mixtape Review-Body High by Lucki Eck$
Mixtape Review-Body High by Lucki Eck$ by Dan-O “I’m still a kid anyway, I keep forgettin’ bout that sh_t (Finesse)” It’s easy to forget. Lucki Eck$ is a barely 18 year old rapper from Chicago who stepped into rap fully developed. His last mixtape Alternative Trap was one of those projects I couldn’t stop listening…
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EP Review-Royalty The Prequel by The Dream
EP Review-Royalty The Prequel by The Dream by Dan-O Amidst all the great little R&B mixtapes that have dropped into the universe this year you won’t hear a lot about Royalty. Not for lack of interesting music, by the way, more for the emotional neediness. This is a project so very off-putting that the hits…
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Mixtape Review-Drive By from Cartie
Mixtape Review-Drive By from Cartie by Dan-O Its not just concise, tough and gigantic sounding; Drive By is also the soundtrack to losing your cool and maybe your mind. Every mixtape Don Cannon is involved with ends up turned all the way up into an event and this project is no different. Cartie marches through…
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EP review-OTR2SJ by Scotty ATL
EP review-OTR2SJ by Scotty ATL by Dan-O My blood boils when I hear censored music. By the time the 90’s came around I was arguing with my parents for the permission to listen to rap music. If you turned on the television people were driving steamrollers over my favorite rap album. C. Delores Tucker had…
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Mixtape Review-Air Time by Mouse On Tha Track
Mixtape Review-Air Time by Mouse On Tha Track by Dan-O Some people can’t help but be fun. It’s in their bones. In my generation we all looked at Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day and snickered. It seemed like he just couldn’t stop making fun bankable pop music no matter what he tried to do.…
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Least Valuable Song of The Year-Because of U by Mickey Factz
Least Valuable Song of The Year-Because of U by Mickey Factz by Dan-O Thinking about the new Mickey Factz mixtape 740 Park Ave makes me physically angry. It stirs the desire in me to jump in the air, loudly swear, and flail my arms. He uses the story of the super expensive upper crust dwelling…
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Mixtape Review-Tony by King Louie
Mixtape Review-Tony by King Louie by Dan-O Most subgenres start out as a descriptive insult. Swag rap is the rule not the exception. While it’s absolutely true that swag is a horribly annoying term that got beaten into the soil a few years ago the music is still pretty astonishing. Fans of the way hip…
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EP review-Sinatra by Vado
EP review-Sinatra by Vado by Dan-O I’ve been doing a lot of traveling recently and getting deep into the mixtapes of the year. Some stand up as glorious and possibly even better than when they came out. Others lose their polish. Sinatra came out earlier in the year and while it was great, everything Vado…
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Mixtape Review-Stay Black 2 by Black Dave
Mixtape Review-Stay Black 2 by Black Dave by Dan-O NY radio personalities disingenuously perpetually ponder the state of NY hip hop and its difficulties. If the 5 Boroughs have a problem at all it’s this over thinking. When a new artist with talent comes out of NY his talent isn’t even that exciting the local…
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Song of The Year-Very Much Money (Ice King Dream) by Open Mike Eagle produced by Ultra Combo
Song of The Year-Very Much Money (Ice King Dream) by Open Mike Eagle produced by Ultra Combo by Dan-O You can move mountains you can be the most interesting man in the world but if you’re broke it doesn’t really matter. That’s how it feels anyway, and this song articulates that feeling in a transcendent…
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