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Song of The Year-Club Goin’ Up On A Tuesday by ILoveMakonnen produced by Sonny Digital & Metro Boomin
http://www.trillhd.com/video/6972/ilovemakonnen-club-going-up-on-a-tuesday Song of The Year-Club Goin’ Up On A Tuesday by ILoveMakonnen produced by Sonny Digital & Metro Boomin by Dan-O Whenever the 2014 mixtape universe gets discussed a large part of that shouting match is dedicated to how delightfully strange Atlanta hip hop has been. The first name given as an example of the…
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Mixtape Review-Underground Cassette Tape Music by Gangsta Boo & Beatking
Mixtape Review-Underground Cassette Tape Music by Gangsta Boo & Beatking by Dan-O In no uncertain terms, Underground Cassette Tape Music is the best singular Southern Hip Hop mixtape of 2014. That’s a pretty high compliment in a year full of energized weirdo Southern bounce. The first track Come Off Dat begins with a first rapped…
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Sample Snitch: The connection between Jimmy Cagney and E-40 (Back in Business 2010/White Heat 1949)
Sample Snitch: The connection between Jimmy Cagney and E-40 (Back in Business 2010/White Heat 1949) by Dan-O The movie White Heat from 1949 is a defining moment in film noir. The main character, Arthur “Cody” Jarrett is not only a robber but suffers from headaches he started faking as a kid to get his mothers…
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Mixtape Review-Prohibition by Berner & B-Real
Mixtape Review-Prohibition by Berner & B-Real by Dan-O Mixtapes give upcoming artists a chance to put together something that purely reflects them; not vetted by record executives and plotted for the radio. It also gives the major and middle class artists a chance to drop something cool out of nowhere. Prohibition falls into the second…
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Song of The Year-Life Jacket by DJ Quik featuring Dom Kennedy and Suga Free
Song of The Year-Life Jacket by DJ Quik featuring Dom Kennedy and Suga Free by Dan-O The Midnight Life might be the surest buy in hip hop this year. If you were anticipating a bigger and wilder event album from one of the architects of the west coast hip hop sound you got it. Last…
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#Throwback Thursday – Domino – “A.F.D” (1993)
Where the fuck have I been? I don’t know man, I was busy. Anyway, the last thing I think I actually published for this site was the MVP piece for Gucci Mane in 2012. No one really cares about that though; go read my old stuff if you want, but this is going to be…
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Song Review-Baby Come Around by IZA produced by Snoop Dogg
Song Review-Baby Come Around by IZA produced by Snoop Dogg by Dan-O I could probably get you interested in the mixtape Flower In The Jungle by IZA with a simple tagline. Polish singer does a DJ Skee mixtape produced entirely by Snoop Dogg. Those components alone would make a lot of rap fans press play…
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Mixtape Review-Gold Bottles by Ziggy x C-Note
Mixtape Review-Gold Bottles by Ziggy x C-Note by Dan-O My family loves the movie Tombstone. It’s not the greatest movie of all time but we can never seem to look away. The mustaches, the camera angles, the Shakespearean arc of Ringo and Doc Holiday just work. Everything is in the right place.I can name fifty…
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Song Review-730 by Young Thug
Song Review-730 by Young Thug by Dan-O Young Thug’s takeover of the weirdo trap rap game in 2014 hip hop often times feels like a victory for gibberish and funny noises. It’s a bit surreal to read reviews of Riff Raff that criticize him for being silly and nonsensical when Young Thug is making hits with…
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