Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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Mixtape Review-Long Live The King by King Mez
Mixtape Review-Long Live The King by King Mez by Dan-O Long Live The King is a buried treasure mixtape. On its surface you think you miss the overwhelming bang, rumble or finger snap. The braggadocio is strong funny and well placed “Well I’m Reggie Miller…pull up with the range (Reggie Miller)!” but most of the…
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Song Review-Richer Dad by Sonnie Carson produced by DR Period
Song Review-Richer Dad by Sonnie Carson produced by DR Period by Dan-O When I first heard the mixtape Most Likely to Succeed I started telling everyone about it. Carson has an old school NY tough guy DITC feel to his flow even when he’s rapping about normal things. The contrast between the “I took your…
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Six Degrees of Drake
Six Degrees of Drake by Dan-O The widespread success of Drake has caused the spread of a new sound. Does anyone remember when Ghostface Killah started doing sing heavy hooks and it was controversial? People were mad and questioning how hardcore his music was…now being able to sing or fake sing the chorus (sometimes several…
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Song of The Year-Knicks by Freddie Gibbs produced by Madlib
http://songs.to/#!pl=4c4fbb0394559d3120f10d23be2f957854a05ca4 Song of The Year-Knicks by Freddie Gibbs produced by Madlib by Dan-O When the full album collaboration between these two forces was announced some aspects of it were certain. The lyrics were going to be tough. Gibbs has a range of toughness that runs anywhere from Rambo going back in Vietnam to win it…
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Mixtape Review- Alley Shakur: The Soul of a Runaway Slave by Alley Boy
Mixtape Review- Alley Shakur: The Soul of a Runaway Slave by Alley Boy by Dan-O I think a lot of us are conditioned (through Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix examples) to believe that our most important artists burn brightly for a short moment and then leave the stage forever. It’s only as you get older that…
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Song Review-How U Feel by Fat Trel produced by Harry Fraud
Song Review-How U Feel by Fat Trel produced by Harry Fraud by Dan-O Trel’s new mixtape Gleesh feels like the proving ground for the number one Maybach Music question: does the luxuriously clean production style of the label fit the gritty goon content of the roster? Fat Trel is full of violent bluster with a…
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EP Review-IVRY by 100S
EP Review-IVRY by 100S by Dan-O Pimp rap is a hard thing to explain support of. All you can say is that when it works its amazing. The job of a pimp is to make you choose his or her services, so a great pimp rap musical experience should be just as engaging; something that…
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Song Review-Bompton by YG produced by DJ Mustard
Song Review-Bompton by YG produced by DJ Mustard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RIYI3z2xs by Dan-O This sounds worse than it is but a lot of music people simply thought of YG as an appendage of DJ Mustard. He can organize the Mustard sound with his energy and flow but without it he’s ok at best. This all changed with…
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Mixtape Review-By Any Means by Kevin Gates
Mixtape Review-By Any Means by Kevin Gates by Dan-O A cynical person would probably say that Kevin Gates is a product of the modern rap landscape. A lot of his songs have to do with longing for female companionship or trapping and the melody in everything he says might be considered a post-Juvenile trait. As…
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Song of the Year-Too Ill For The Law by Lakutis produced by HGHWND
Song of the Year-Too Ill For The Law by Lakutis produced by HGHWND by Dan-O One of the things I hoped to achieve with this site was NOT writing about Das Racist or anyone affiliated with it. The think piece generating insincere crew of moderately talented mc’s captured the imagination of people I am forced…
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