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Song of The Year-Lay Wit Ya by Isaiah Rashad featuring Duke Deuce *free content*
by Dan-O Over time an important labels reputation falls out of their own hands. The fans, critics, fellow artists start molding narratives. As time marched on from To Pimp A Butterfly to SZA’s album Ctrl TDE got a reputation as a very serious place. A divide between TDE and the new, bouncy popular rap world…
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#BandcampGold-selfmedicated by SolarFive *free content*
by Dan-O Ten songs. Longest is two minutes and forty six seconds, shortest is one minute and fourteen seconds. Total runtime around nineteen minutes. While selfmedicated is an ep by my definition (under 21 minutes) when you digest the totality of it, the project feels overqualified for it. With a few verses tacked on this…
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State of The Game Vol. 67-Beatnuts Legendary 3 Album Run w/ Wally Clark
by Dan-O ACTION ITEMS The Beatnuts went from Street Level to suits and top hats while keepingit cohesive. They have a lyrical legacy as well as a production legacyto keep in mind.
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#BandcampGold-Avada Kedavra by AJ Suede *free content*
by Dan-O Very few artists are as well named as AJ Suede. I made the mistake, the first time I heard him on 2020’s Knowhatimean, of assessing him as an artist matching his smooth delivery to drumless (or drum-lite) underground beats. A lot of artists are particularly good at something and dig into that niche,…