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Mixtape Review-Biggie Smalls EP by IAMSU & AkaFrank
Mixtape Review-Biggie Smalls EP by IAMSU & AkaFrank by Dan-O The first lie of art is that you should always work harder on your weakness than your strength. Sounds good for a teacher to tell a kid but it’s not reasonable for a grown up at all. Why would you spend most of your energy…
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Throwback Thursday-Love Is Blind by Eve featuring Faith Evans
Throwback Thursday-Love Is Blind by Eve featuring Faith Evans by Dan-O I want no one who ever heard this song to forget it. Just that it existed and we all loved it. Every time a headline runs about how misogynistic this rap music or that rap music is (looking at you Compton) we need to…
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Mixtape Review-Winter’s Diary 3 by Tink
Mixtape Review-Winter’s Diary 3 by Tink by Dan-O Everyone has something different to say, naturally, but Tink is one of the most promising songwriting talents R&B has seen in years. That’s been there from the start. As far back as you go in her catalog you can find clever, daring songs that twist and turn…
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Song of The Year-I Serve The Base by Future produced by Metro Boomin’
Song of The Year-I Serve The Base by Future produced by Metro Boomin’ by Dan-O I’ve disliked everything Future put out this year…on first listen. As a listener I was too accustomed to the passionate determination music. Future puts so much of himself into his flow that through the robotic vocal effect you really feel…
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Free Album review-Star Wars by Wilco
Preface by Dan-O I hold accountability for everything published on freemusicempire. That editorial responsibility means that any guest blogger has to be 100% dependable. Not a critic (although he has written as a reviewer) who is funny and good at diagraming how something fits in the narrative. I need an artist who knows what it…
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Song of The Year-Jayraymecofasola by Jill Scott
Song of The Year-Jayraymecofasola by Jill Scott by Dan-O While it is true that I’ve never known Jill Scott to be a monster charting force (or even the center of the soul narrative the way Badu has been) I’ve also never known an artist who didn’t love her music. Being an artist doesn’t increase the…
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Mixtape Review-Good Day in The Ghetto by ST 2 Lettaz
Mixtape Review-Good Day in The Ghetto by ST 2 Lettaz by Dan-O This project is different. It isn’t just that it features an all-star guest line up (Migos, Stalley, Mic Strange). On Good Day he rhymes “banging my old lady buck nekkid on top of them polo sheets” with “four more weeks til my n_…
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Mixtape Review-Politically End Correct by Sy Ari Da Kid x Teauxny
Mixtape Review-Politically End Correct by Sy Ari Da Kid x Teauxny by Dan-O Fans of Sy Ari Da Kid are not in it for the production (typically mid tempo soul sample banger) or wild Jeezy like ad-libs. Sy isn’t trying to make music that plays in the background while you twerk. Those of us that…
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Mixtape Review-2K47 by Hurt Everybody
Mixtape Review-2K47 by Hurt Everybody by Dan-O The first few songs in I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to like 2K47 or Hurt Everybody because they sounded savagely unhappy and that’s not really how I want to be. By the last few…I was very sure I loved 2K47 and Hurt Everybody. The group consists…
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Song Review-Careful by Locksmith produced by Mike Blankenship, The Kid Rated R and Locksmith
Song Review-Careful by Locksmith produced by Mike Blankenship, The Kid Rated R and Locksmith by Dan-O New Locksmith is always something to look forward to. Not only can he brutalize a beat but Lock is a born confessor. When the recording light comes on he’s admitting things you wouldn’t. His new album Lofty Goals teases…
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