Author: FREE MUSIC EMPIRE
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Mixtape Review-Pulp Fiction by Miloh Smith
Mixtape Review-Pulp Fiction by Miloh Smith by Dan-O I always feel that the best mixtapes are made by people having fun. Even Hell Rell. A lot of them are free agents looking to get signed making music that they would like to hear. Even signed artists have less oversight to deal with on a free…
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Song Review-What Happened by Maino featuring Jadakiss
Song Review-What Happened by Maino featuring Jadakiss by Dan-O Songs like this just need to end. I would love to be talking about how much I enjoyed Maino’s new project K.O.B. but the last bonus track is a song that’s been made a thousand times by a thousand different artists. Every time it comes off…
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Mixtape Review-Crown Royal 4 by Pastor Troy
Mixtape Review-Crown Royal 4 by Pastor Troy by Dan-O Pastor Troy has always been my answer. When pasty New Englanders told me that Southern Rap was soft I would just ask if they’d ever heard him. They never had. Once you’ve heard Pastor Troy your perspective is changed. Crown Royal 4 is a sprawling example…
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Mixtape Review-One Long Day by SonReal
Mixtape Review-One Long Day by SonReal by Dan-O The best example of how needy/high stakes and fascinating SonReal music is comes on the song LA off his new mixtape One Long Day. The gentle piano gives way to our narrator suffering writers block and going on a drive. He gets pulled over, gets a ticket…
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Song Review-Old Street by Allen Poe featuring Emma Shaheen produced by Jaze Baqti
Song Review-Old Street by Allen Poe featuring Emma Shaheen produced by Jaze Baqti by Dan-O I was always going to do a song highlight for Allen Poe’s mixtape Pocket Full of Ohms. My original thought was the song Gina which is a classic hit-on-the-hot-chick-she-turns-you-down song. It’s a lot of fun as Von Pea and Basement…
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From The Inbox….
From The Inbox…. Soulmate by Moss Da Beast by Dan-O Moss Da Beast-Soulmate mixtape submission is a great indicator of the evolution our FME submission mailbox has undergone. While at first most of our submissions were NYU students stringing together their most intricate phrasing and vocabulary we now have the full spread; sophisticated political rappers…
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Song of The Year- Double Up and Rewind by 2 $ Fabo produced by King Dominus
Song of The Year- Double Up and Rewind by 2 $ Fabo produced by King Dominus by Dan-O I don’t believe that any trend in music is without a valid foundation. That’s why things are so cyclical. As maligned and mocked as the crunk trend became the most popular and best mixtape of 2014 so…
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Mixtape Review-Winters Diary 2 by Tink
Mixtape Review-Winters Diary 2 by Tink by Dan-O The unquestionable sincerity of emotion that runs right through the center of Winters Diary 2 holds it together despite all other limitations. The fact that her voice doesn’t have that Beyonce or Jennifer Hudson range actually turns into a positive. She sings in an affectionate coo throughout…
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Song Review-Home Again by E-40 featuring Mike Marshall
Song Review-Home Again by E-40 featuring Mike Marshall by Dan-O Criticism by its very nature is reductive, by writing an “angle” or “theme” into a review you cut away all the other rough edges that don’t fit. It’s been a gift and a curse for E-40. Being from the East Coast I always knew you…
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