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Mixtape Review-Vado- Slime Flu 4
Mixtape Review-Vado- Slime Flu 4 by Dan-O If New York hip hop is in recovery it’s a relatively joyless one. While people like Ka and Roc Marciano release great music, the popular sound of New York is the practiced and insincere NY trap of A$ap Ferg and the like. In the world of mixtapes we…
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Song of the Year-Whistle for My White Horse by Niko Is produced by Ryen Towers
Song of the Year-Whistle for My White Horse by Niko Is produced by Ryen Towers From The Other Side of The Velvet Rope mixtape By Dan-O Last week a lunch time discussion about baseball turned into me doing an impression of Alex Rodriguez doing an interview where he described his comeback as the feeling a…
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Mixtape Review-HBK Gang-Gang Forever
Mixtape Review-HBK Gang-Gang Forever by Dan-O I can think of a lot of things the HBK Gang compilation isn’t. It’s not a taut concept record, something that feels like an album given for free. At the same time it’s certainly not a lazy collection of freestyles. The only thing I can think to compare it…
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Song Review-Criket by Couleen Lagon
Song Review-Criket by Couleen Lagon by Dan-O While following all things DJ Burn One I stumbled upon a great song from Scotty’s mixtape (https://freemusicempire.com/2013/05/08/song-of-the-year-ga-dialectfeat-couleen-lagon-produced-by-dj-burn-one-and-cy-fyre/) made impressive partially by a man with a very unique voice that did the chorus. Most times you hear a genuinely bluesy voice on a rap song it’s a sample but…
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Mixtape Review-Stalley-Honest Cowboy
Mixtape Review-Stalley-Honest Cowboy by Dan-O Picture rap music as a classroom containing all the personalities we are familiar with. The pretty boy who writes poetry in his free time, the goon who picks a fight every few days just to feel healthy, the smart kid everyone copies off of, the trashy chick the guys pretend…
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Song Review-Youth N Revolt by Reese produced by Ducko
Song Review-Youth N Revolt by Reese produced by Ducko by Dan-O I can’t say I was excited about the Drill scene explosion of last year and its effect. While I was never one of the many concerned citizens seeing crime statistic symbolism in every verse, my teeth sucking came from how new everyone acted like…
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Phil Ade-R.O.S.E.(Result of Society’s Evil) Mixtape Review
Phil Ade-R.O.S.E.(Result of Society’s Evil) Mixtape Review by Dan-O Between R.O.S.E. and Young Moe’s Humble Hustle 2 (https://freemusicempire.com/2013/06/15/young-moe-humble-hustle-2-mixtape-review/)the DMV(Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) have a definite 2013 sound forming. Just because R.O.S.E. has a Kendrick Lamar style cover doesn’t mean all of its content exists in that off tempo Top Dawg zone. Songs like 2am (featuring Bun-B)…
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SOTY-Peace Akhi by KA (AOTY The Night’s Gambit)
SOTY-Peace Akhi by KA (AOTY The Night’s Gambit) by Dan-O The reason I loved KA’s 2012 lp Grief Pedigree is that he sounded like a war worn weary ex-criminal grandfather blazing street tale after street tale through visceral poetic imagery. If Grief Pedigree is the work of a retired street soldier, The Night’s Gambit is…
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D.C.C.-F_ck A Cosign mixtape review
D.C.C.-F_ck A Cosign mixtape review by Dan-O The depth and scope of the D.C.C. can be intimidating. Let me start with what it means, it stands for the Dallas City Council. While not the best mixtape of this year F_ck A Cosign is a post DJ Screw Texas street attack needed in this trap v.…
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Song of the year-Jay-z Blue produced by Timbaland
Song of the year-Jay-z Blue produced by Timbaland by Dan-O Jay-z’s new album Magna Carta Holy Grail is easy to dislike. On it he name-checks Basquiat like most rappers do molly (too darn much), he even brings his sand to the beach because his beach is better. It’s a gloriously snobby album and we’re only…
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