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Street Lottery 3 by Young Scooter
Street Lottery 3 by Young Scooter by Dan-O I used to think of Young Scooter as mini-Gucci Mane, one of the many understudies the Holy Spirit of Trap (in holy trinity terms the father would be TI and the son is Jeezy) burns through on his long career. It turns out he’s a Frankenstein of Gucci and…
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Song Of The Year-Unconditional Love by Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year-Unconditional Love by Esperanza Spalding by Dan-O Of all the potential large scale album productions we’ve seen from huge names across many genres only two 2016 albums resonate with me this year. Flatbush Zombies released the brilliant 3001: A Laced Odyssey with brazen insane verses, lots of interesting subject matter, and…
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Mixtape Review-Drunk Uncle by N.O.R.E.
Mixtape Review-Drunk Uncle by N.O.R.E. by Dan-O I am a pretty passionate hip hop head. I hate pet peeve artists I’ve never met worse than family or friends that have slighted me, but I’ve never really had an opinion on N.O.R.E. Never been able to call him wack because he swings in on tracks and…
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#Bandcampgold review-Hella Personal Film Festival by Open Mike Eagle & Paul White
#Bandcampgold review-Hella Personal Film Festival by Open Mike Eagle & Paul White by Dan-O Dark Comedy put Open Mike Eagle on the map for a lot of listeners. While I still listen and enjoy that album it feels like a battle of Dark v. Comedy and in that sense Dark wins. By the time you hit…
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Throwback Thursday-Lost Ya’ll Mind by Kilo Ali
Throwback Thursday-Lost Ya’ll Mind by Kilo Ali by Dan-O Netflix has a great documentary on Dungeon Family production team Organized Noize(The Art of Organized Noize) and its full of great old school southern rap name drops. I’ve been fascinated because because it feels like southern rap history is left to be the least explored outside…
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Song Review-R.I.P.C.D by Flatbush Zombies produced by Erick Arc Elliott
Song Review-R.I.P.C.D by Flatbush Zombies produced by Erick Arc Elliott by Dan-O The easiest way to gauge the dopeness level of 3001: A Laced Odyssey by the Flatbush Zombies is to pay attention to the interludes. Listen to the gorgeous piano driven two minute suicide song Fly Away or the soulful head nodding Smoke Break…
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Song Review-Dudley Boyz by Westside Gunn featuring Action Bronson produced by Alchemist
Song Review-Dudley Boyz by Westside Gunn featuring Action Bronson produced by Alchemist by Dan-O Have I told you how much I love Westside Gunn’s Flygod album? It has the same crushing sense of hardcore content with a twist of dark humor that Sean Price was so great at creating. In addition, it features production…
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Song Review-Heard Dat by Smoke Dza produced by Harry Fraud
Song Review-Heard Dat by Smoke Dza produced by Harry Fraud by Dan-O When a sound is described as “nostalgic” no part of that is complimentary. They are inferring that it spins its wheels by replicating an old sound that we all miss and want back without moving at all into the future. It gets tossed…
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Song of The Year-The Season/Carry Me by Anderson Paak
Song of The Year-The Season/Carry Me by Anderson Paak by Dan-O When Drake first exploded onto the scene some interesting comparisons were made between him and Lebron James. The same way purist’s frothed venom as Lebron chomped on his fingernails on the sidelines; Drake felt like the cloying hip hop version. So much talent but…
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#Bandcampgold review-Solid Chunks of Energy by Jake McKelvie & The Countertops
#Bandcampgold review-Solid Chunks of Energy by Jake McKelvie & The Countertops by Dan-O Lyricism is so incredible because it can’t successfully be hidden. If you are really intent to find it you’ll be able to identify it. It’s not necessarily about the depth of the idea, but its vivid illustration. Jake McKelvie has that in…
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