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State of The Game Vol. 32-UK rap 2020
by Dan-O AGENDAUK HIP HOP● Assess 2 UK pop rap albums from 2020.● Assess 2 UK underground rap albums from 2020. NOTES● Headie One -Edna was released in October and hit #1 on the UK albumcharts. Kenny Beats, Drake, Future, Skepta, and Stormzy all appear. Doesthis fit as an important pop rap album in 2020?●…
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#BandcampGold-Midnight Sons by Zilla Rocca and DJ Chong Wizard
by Dan-O Zilla Rocca doesn’t believe in perfect idols but he believes in surviving the right way. If you go back to 2018’s Hard Boiled ep he phrases it very concisely “We’ve all given half to the hand in our face. We’ve all taken stones from the holiest place.(Run Rabbit Run)” The world runs schemes on us…
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State of The Game Vol. 31-THE EVENT: Ariana, Busta, and Wizkid
by Dan-O AGENDAEvent Albums● Discuss the three event albums that came out this week.● What are the basic properties of an event album? Have they changed in2020? NOTES● Ariana Grande-Positions: While Ariana has shown growth from album toalbum (Last years Thank You, Next has an 86 on Metacritic) this onereally steps into a different space…
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FME DECODED-Teller Bank$
So actually…the dude on the album cover that’s my cousin that I’m actually talking about in the song who got sentenced to life when he was 19…we write a lot of letters (me and my Mom) to keep in touch with him a lot. One time he wrote me a letter that stuck out to…
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State of The Game Vol. 30-A Unique Approach
by Dan-O (and K Diggy) This weeks agenda: ● Look at a grouping of 2020 releases and identify what is unique aboutthem.● How does an artist with a left field perspective or sound create a placefor themselves in the marketplace? NOTES● Fat Tony- Exotica . Fat Tony is an established Houston rapper whosereleases go back…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR ELUCID
I want us to think about what liberation means. I want us to think about and imagine what a free and just and liberated world looks like. I want you to think about yourself and what you bring to the table to vision these things possible. by Dan-O It took me too long to realize…
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Hold This Date-11/13/2020 FlySiifu’s
by Dan-O FlySiifu’s is a collaboration album between Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu. The cover by Jacob Rochester is just beautiful. It manages to be striking, explain the simple premise that this is a record shop the two run, and convey via the body language of the MC’s captured what kind of ride this is…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR DAVIS
I wanted my music to sound like the synapses in my mind firing off, stream of consciousness type. That’s why you might get a Lone Wolf & Cub or Martin Lawrence reference next to theories of perpetual motion machines and thermodynamics. by Dan-O Some people just have that thing. They can make sticks and mud…
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