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Lil B – I Forgive You.
By late 2010 to early 2011, it became really hard to ignore Lil B. Even you were unaware of his Hyphy on Skateboards crew, The Pack, or you were blissfully ignorant of the weird torrent of “Based” videos on Youtube it was apparent that Lil B was not just some weird, little man you watched…
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Weeknd- House of Balloons/Thursday
The Internet is filled with unchecked possibility. People like Abel from Toronto who, having grown up in the nineties, reflect or result from the sounds they experienced. Artists like Abel don’t need to struggle with demos and major labels- putting a site together and distributing the music free can showcase the music as you really…
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Pill The Diagnosis
A year ago, right before his third mixtape The Overdose dropped, the future looked very bright for Atlanta rapper Pill. Hot off the heels of two fantastic mixtapes and elected to XXL Magazine’s Freshman 10, it looked like another artist was about to join the upper echelon of ATL smarty pants trap Rap. The Prescription…
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Z-Ro- 5200
Z-Ro’s 2010 release Heroin was a jacking. Continuing with his arbitrarily drug titled album series, he -or most likely Rap-A-Lot records- decided to give its consumers a handful of recycled choruses, rhymes, and ludicrously a SONG FROM THE LAST RECORD! It was a ridiculous affair that only further cemented that Rap-A-Lot had decided on a…
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Cyhi Da Prynce- Royal Flush 2
In his book, There’s a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MC’s, Kool Moe Dee declares that the substantive MC will always have an advantage. Webster’s dictionary defines substance as an essential nature, or a fundamental or characteristic part or quality. Kool comes from a time where your braggadocio was mixed in with your concerns…
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Track Breakdown: Time Machine Edition Scarface “Smile” Feat. 2Pac
Sometimes we are just going to write about something about Hip Hop that we are passionate about. Usually this is because it’s been a slow time for mixtapes for one of us and we still feel the need to update the site. With that in mind, Dan-O comes to the rescue of filling up space…
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Sean Falyon Be Everywhere 2: West Philly 2 The World
Sean Falyon BE2 is a fun problem to have. Twenty tracks is not always too long for a mixtape, it is the way that it is structured. The first really personal song we get from Falyon comes after fifteen hard thumping club tracks, stripper tracks, and show those haters whose boss tracks. By the time…
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Tum Tum- Dallas EP
Being a rapper from Dallas, Texas must be tough stuff. Tremendously overshadowed by Houston, it has a pretty monochromatic spectrum of famous Rapping sons. While there are few good rappers in its local scene, you really only have two rappers of mainstream renowned: The D.O.C & Vanilla Ice. Even MC 900 FT Jesus is really only…
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Rain- Magic Hour 2
I really believe that hip hop is supposed to deliberately distort previous models of music and build in different directions, even if it is distorting itself. As much as everyone’s sound evolves from someone else, or some era no one is actually in debt to anyone. So when North Carolina’s Rain took the smooth soul…
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Laws – Yesterday’s Future
Unbarred sentimentality has never been truly rewarded in Hip Hop. Drake, Kanye West, and even The Clipse do their share of soul bearing, but it’s always done with such bombast that’s it’s hard to even consider it sentimental. That type of sentimentality is almost like inside-out bragging; you can’t always take it seriously: sometimes it…
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