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Juicy J & Lex Lugar- Rubba Band Business Vol 2.
On paper, Juicy J working with Lex Lugar doesn’t really come as a surprise. In Lugar’s minimal, sometimes eerie, always bass heavy beats, it’s easy to hear Juicy J’s influence. The cheap lumbering monsters that Juicy J & DJ Paul created in their heyday were less aggressive and slower, but that same sense of intense…
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Pusha T- Fear of God
The Clipse have focused on drug metaphors the way TMZ.com focus on celebrity mishaps. It’s what made them: each track functioned as a one-two punch. Pusha T would startle everyone with unexpectedly callous rhymes so focused on the hustle that he had stripped the humanity from them, before Malice came in to color in a…
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Curren$y & Alchemist- Covert Coup
Every track on Curren$y’s new mixtape Covert Coup starts with short tight samples looped into deep, dark, sneaky music. It’s the same kind of beat that Alchemist has thrown behind hard as nails rappers like Mobb Deep for years. This time, though, it’s not Prodigy’s anti-flow of pain and fearlessness that barks over the backdrop;…
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Elzhi’s- Elmatic
Nostalgia is a tricky thing. While it can be used as a reference point by artists to extend and offer their own ideas, it can also it can be a leaning post for lazy artists attempting to piggy back our collective consciousness for chance to be noticed. It takes a lot of hard work to…
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Waka Flocka Flame- Benjamin Flocka
Waka Flocka Flame is the quintessential Goon Rapper. An incompetent lyricist with a simple flow, Flame is an unflappable hook machine with a decent ear for beats. In 2010, he found himself on many 2010 year end lists with Flockaveli, an intended mixtape – turned – album, that proved that once again many Hip hop…
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Big K.R.I.T- Return 2 4eva
DJ’s try to bolster their reputation by building stables of emcees that they helped discover. This does two things, it increases their reputation by putting an important artist on and, it ensures that when they put together a compilation album they have enough people to throw on massive posse tracks with air horn…a lot of…
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Welcome to Free Music Empire
Welcome to the first post at Free Music Empire, a site devoted to reviewing the latest Hip Hop mixtapes. Over the last decade, Mixtapes have become a dominant force in the genre, rendering the scene a digital mess of Datpiff uploads and blogs. Aside from a few reviews here and there, we here at Free…
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