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Mixtape Review-Finesse The World by Retchy P
Mixtape Review-Finesse The World by Retchy P by Dan-O The easy way to say it is that hip hop needs villains but the statement is incomplete. Hip hop is one of the few genres not just able to readily produce villains but to create albums and mixtapes that speak from the perspective of the villain.…
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My Star Wars Analogy between Miguel and Leon Bridges
My Star Wars Analogy between Miguel and Leon Bridges by Dan-O Miguel’s new album Wildheart is not short of brilliant. It’s like an intimidating layer cake of sexual pop music that carries Prince’s style with R. Kelly’s nymphomaniacal intention. Leon Bridges Come Home album is on the opposite side of the spectrum but just as…
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Weekly Hip Hop-up
Weekly Hip Hop-up by Dan-O This week I digested a bunch of promising projects at very different stages of satisfaction. Let’s go over them. Sean Brown-Solitude Autotune is a gift with two curses attached, misuse and overuse. While Sean Brown’s nine track project Solitude has the weeks most fascinating and promising individual songs it has some real…
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Song review-See a Key(Ki’) by Skyzoo featuring Jadakiss produced by Thelonius Martin
Song review-See a Key(Ki’) by Skyzoo featuring Jadakiss produced by Thelonius Martin by Dan-O The narrative that NY hip hop is dead has been bolstered by the poor sales of Troy Ave’s album Major Without A Deal (which you won’t catch me writing about, I don’t kick people when they are down), but it’s still…
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Mixtape Review-Thought Waves by Sky.P
Mixtape Review-Thought Waves by Sky.P by Dan-O Thought Waves is a young collection of music. It’s a project Sky.P will look back on and chuckle at when he’s older and has thicker skin but he’ll always value it, probably for the same reasons I do. It’s not just skillfully produced with pitch perfect temperament and…
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Throwback Thursday-Make Up Your Mind by Kool Keith
Throwback Thursday-Make Up Your Mind by Kool Keith by Dan-O It’s not just that we didn’t anticipate rap music becoming as weird as it is now; the kind of weird where Kid Cudi is normal. A lot of people who love hip hop, grew up on it, are not comfortable with how weird things are…
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Song of The Year-City G.O.D. by King Louie featuring Fetty Wap & KD produced by DJ L
Song of The Year-City G.O.D. by King Louie featuring Fetty Wap & KD produced by DJ L by Dan-O I would have to confess that as much as I LOVE Chicago hip hop in its current form…I would not miss Drill if it left hip hop. I would be more than happy to see it…
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Mixtape Review-Murder For Hire by Kevin Gates
Mixtape Review-Murder For Hire by Kevin Gates by Dan-O My Kevin Gates honeymoon period was so great. Listening to the Luca Brasi mixtape was like seeing Manny Pacquiao take Marco Antonio Barrera apart piece by piece(in 2003) and thinking “who is this kid?”No feeling quite like being floored by the pure versatility and talent on…
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Throwback Thursday-Back In The Day by Missy Elliott featuring Jay-z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIc-sz7O_nA Throwback Thursday-Back In The Day by Missy Elliott featuring Jay-z by Dan-O We all know now that Missy was a creative freak, mastermind of both music video and lose your mind dancefloor hip hop. When we go back to those hits we shouldn’t lose track of what she was overcoming. She wasn’t hailed as…
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