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Jai Swift-Thoughts of an Agile Hustler Mixtape Review
Jai Swift-Thoughts of an Agile Hustler Mixtape Review by Dan-O I’m a sucker for muted street talk delivered confidently and nonchalantly especially in the current hip hop climate of yelling, singing, and out of control ad-libs. It seems like everyone is trying so hard to stake out a quadrant of their own on the hip…
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Songs of the year: Vado-Off Hiatus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0sTX45tNE Songs of the year: Vado-Off Hiatus by Dan-O Slime Flu 3 is the strangest mixtape of the year so far. Half of it is boring because Vado raps so slow that his punch lines seem to be running through swamp water but the other half is like this. That other half where you catch…
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Kevin Gates-The Luca Brasi Story Mixtape Review
Kevin Gates-The Luca Brasi Story Mixtape Review by Dan-O The great unheralded fact about rap music is that most MC’s are not, in fact, on beat. About ten percent of every major artist who lays verses to records can really do it(Nas, E-40) but these are a select few. Not being able to do it…
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Songs of the Year-Starch by Curly Castro featuring Has-Lo & Boogieman Dela
Starch by Curly Castro featuring Has-Lo & Boogieman Dela by Dan-O Did you ever wonder what the Wu-Tang would sound like if they rapped about normal things like tipping at restaurants and laundry? I think you’d get tracks like this. The same ferocity and forcefully hard lyrics, same smashingly soulful production leaving your head nodding…
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Ign Inglor-Gawdspeed Mixtape Review
Ign Inglor-Gawdspeed Mixtape Review by Dan-O The brush back that dampened the drill scene party was not centered on the obvious criticism (a lot of these artists sound the same) but the notion of recklessness. After all, the Midwest’s most notable current musical export drill is trap music with more violence and less responsibility coming…
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Songs of the year-On Dunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPSgUGQR_Q Songs of the year-On Dunk Sy Ari Da Kid & Dae Dae featuring D. Dash-On Dunk This is from another massive Trap-A-Holics Tape called Civil War 2: 2 Sides Of a Story produced by Blue Beats. For those of you who think Waka, Gucci and the Brick Squad have had their time, it’s certainly…
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Curren$y-New Jet City review
Curren$y-New Jet City review by Dan-O So many rappers have claimed a link between their lyrics and the novels of Donald Goines. I don’t think any of them do it as a shallow reputation boost, Goines is still the biggest selling African American author in history…a jailed genius who spun ghetto landscape into Shakespearean tragedy.…
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Nickelus F-Vices mixtape review
Nickelus F-Vices mixtape review by Dan-O You can hear Nickelus F blow Drake off of his own tracks when Drake was focused on rapping (Room for Improvement era). For my ears it never translated to his music, he always had a masterful in your face flow but came off as a shock rapper. Having a…
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Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there(Coke Rap Era)
Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there Re-up Gang-20k Money Making Brothers on the Corner by Dan-O Re-up Gang-20k Money Making Brothers on the Corner When coke rap really gained steam I fell for it. Not because I’m a fan of cocaine. I’ve never done any drug in my life… I just…
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Freestyles to Free albums: The songs that got us there(Game edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5YpjBVTpwA Freestyles to Free albums: The songs that got us there Game-300 Bars N Runnin by Dan-O A narrative has started on twitter, mostly by radio personalities and fellow rappers that Game has never had a wack album, untrue. He made a wack album called LAX. The narrative has its foundation in 300 Bars N…
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