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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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#Bandcampgold review-Leave It To Believers by Johnny Cremains
#Bandcampgold review-Leave It To Believers by Johnny Cremains by Dan-O If Ballerina’s come back from the dead to kill the living, Johnny Cremains should play that event. To call their sound dark would shamefully disregard the sonic space created. During any Johnny Cremains song you’re not just hearing guitar drums and bass but theremin and…
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Audio Push and the soft resurgence of Native Tongues cool consciousness
Audio Push and the soft resurgence of Native Tongues cool consciousness by Dan-O Hip hop is waves and counter-waves; it survives because every successful movement is so hated by another portion of the culture that its opposition immediately garners prominence as a counter point. You could make the argument that all sub-genres are little traps.…
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#BandcampGold Review-Ride The Surf by Today Junior
#BandcampGold Review-Ride The Surf by Today Junior by Dan-O All of what Today Junior stands for is articulated in a song from their 2013 album What’s The Skinny? called The Antidote. Lead singer Harry O’Toole dumps accept-the-universe-as-it-comes surfer wisdom “We all get sh_t for who we are, what we got and how we got it.…
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Songs of The Year-Pretentious by Elijah Blake produced by Tec Beatz
Songs of The Year-Pretentious by Elijah Blake produced by Tec Beatz by Dan-O This song is a really well-crafted dagger in the heart of the kind of asshats I share classrooms with every semester (I am the second oldest person in every class). I love the refrain “La di di la di dey look…
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Mixtape Review-The Owners Manual by Curren$y
Mixtape Review-The Owners Manual by Curren$y by Dan-O It has not been easy to review mixtapes lately. While a lot of people are pleased as punch to see the upcoming on datpiff become available a lot of it sounds the same. Putting together daily playlists of new mixtapes I have more often than ever had…
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