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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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Song Review-Timeless Interlude by Bryson Tiller
by Dan-O Tiller is so pure; the kind of dude who releases his new album (Anniversary )with the cover as him in a backwards hat and long sleeve shirt then releases a video from it in the same gear. The kind of dude who doesn’t ever reach for new/exotic/current sounds to poach and only has one…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR ALASKA ATOMS
by Dan-O I have really learned how to get what is in my head and my heart onto the track. I think when I was younger I was way more concerned with trying to sound smart, or clever, or complex. I don’t really care about that anymore, because that does not necessarily allow me to…
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SCORCESE INTERVIEW!
–That’s what I mean by organic. None of my guests were forced. Not a single person on my album was a person that didn’t connect or didn’t get a piece of this record or do anything. These are all people who said ‘Yo, I want to get a part of this album, I want to…
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