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#Bandcampgold-Black Beans by Exile x Choosey
#Bandcampgold-Black Beans by Exile x Choosey by Dan-O The world makes us feel terrible. Mac Miller and Nipsey Hussle are dead. Ogres are in power and they don’t even lie to us about how old evil and full of greed/hate they are. Music is necessary, all kinds of music. Black Beans is a beam of light on the…
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Song of The Year-Cuz I Love You by Lizzo
Song of The Year- Cuz I Love You by Lizzo By Dan-O This is my favorite first song of the year (it’s from the self-titled album). Sure, Lizzo has a show stopping voice of the kind I would stab an alien for. That is not the most exciting thing about Lizzo. I can’t get enough of…
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Fight for The Future of Lil Uzi Vert
Fight for The Future of Lil Uzi Vert by Dan-O We complain a lot. All of us do. In Hip Hop, we get mad at youngsters for not doing what the older generations would do. Real rap problems exist: loss of interesting word usage, too much of a focus on ad-libs, drug addiction creating a generation…
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Five Song Tribute to The Legacy of Nipsey Hussle
Five Song Tribute to The Legacy of Nipsey Hussle by Dan-O The night before Nipsey Hussle was killed I was up later than my family bouncing from Youtube video to Youtube video looking for the right end point to justify going to sleep. The one that sealed the evening was a ten question relationship quiz…
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#Bandcampgold-Hiding Places by Billy Woods x Kenny Segal
#Bandcampgold-Hiding Places by Billy Woods x Kenny Segal by Dan-O Biographers live in the world of their subject for years. Can you imagine? In depth talks with family, old letters, review of their work, nailing down different periods of life and what they meant. The subject has to be important enough to fuel the biographer.…
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Song of The Year-Boys Will Be Boys by Stella Donnelly
Song of The Year-Boys Will Be Boys by Stella Donnelly by Dan-O The debut album by tiny lady Stella Donnelly from Perth Australia has dominated my listening for the last week plus. Album cover is definitely off putting and the subject matter is so tense in its exploration of patriarchal savagery (in both personal and…
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Song Of The Year-Young and Invincible by Zacari featuring Lil Yachty
Song Of The Year-Young and Invincible by Zacari featuring Lil Yachty by Dan-O If you are old like I am (old enough to call Mark Wahlberg Marky Mark) and you dislike/can’t figure out new school rap and its value I can help. This song can help. If Young and Invincible was a rap song from…
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#Bandcampgold-Cover Art by Anderson Paak
#Bandcampgold-Cover Art by Anderson Paak by Dan-O If you didn’t know who Anderson Paak was after summer 2015 I don’t think you’re a hip hop head. When Dr. Dre came out of his cave August 7th 2015 to release Compton everyone in hip hop noted it. Thumbing through the sixteen tracks listed Paak was on six…
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Song of The Year-Threat 2 Society by 2 Chainz produced by 9th Wonder
Song of The Year-Threat 2 Society by 2 Chainz produced by 9th Wonder by Dan-O Shout out to 9th Wonder who knows the transcendent power of the right sample. Go ahead and find The Truthettes- So Good To Be Alive and bask in how pimpish that gospel song already is. Pumping it up, speeding it up and passing…
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#Bandcampgold-Texas Piano Man by Robert Ellis
#Bandcampgold-Texas Piano Man by Robert Ellis by Dan-O Texas Piano Man is a country album in 2019. It wouldn’t be in 1973. If this album was released in 1973 it would be a part of that oddball singer-songwriter genre Randy Newman, Michael Franks, and Nilsson championed. Conceptually Ellis messes with the audience and knows he has to…
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