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Track Breakdown: Time Machine Edition Scarface “Smile” Feat. 2Pac
Sometimes we are just going to write about something about Hip Hop that we are passionate about. Usually this is because it’s been a slow time for mixtapes for one of us and we still feel the need to update the site. With that in mind, Dan-O comes to the rescue of filling up space…
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Sean Falyon Be Everywhere 2: West Philly 2 The World
Sean Falyon BE2 is a fun problem to have. Twenty tracks is not always too long for a mixtape, it is the way that it is structured. The first really personal song we get from Falyon comes after fifteen hard thumping club tracks, stripper tracks, and show those haters whose boss tracks. By the time…
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Tum Tum- Dallas EP
Being a rapper from Dallas, Texas must be tough stuff. Tremendously overshadowed by Houston, it has a pretty monochromatic spectrum of famous Rapping sons. While there are few good rappers in its local scene, you really only have two rappers of mainstream renowned: The D.O.C & Vanilla Ice. Even MC 900 FT Jesus is really only…
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Rain- Magic Hour 2
I really believe that hip hop is supposed to deliberately distort previous models of music and build in different directions, even if it is distorting itself. As much as everyone’s sound evolves from someone else, or some era no one is actually in debt to anyone. So when North Carolina’s Rain took the smooth soul…
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Laws – Yesterday’s Future
Unbarred sentimentality has never been truly rewarded in Hip Hop. Drake, Kanye West, and even The Clipse do their share of soul bearing, but it’s always done with such bombast that’s it’s hard to even consider it sentimental. That type of sentimentality is almost like inside-out bragging; you can’t always take it seriously: sometimes it…
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Consequence- Movies On Demand 2
Consequence has been in Hip Hop news for all of the wrong reasons lately. Childish Twitter Beefs with cousin and one time Tribe Called Quest collaborator Q-Tip, accusing Pusha T of notebook crookery, and bridge burning with Kanye West’s label, G.O.O.D. Music, have all done damage to the small amount of shine that Cons gets. …
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Skyzoo- The Great Debater
My Mp3 player lists all of the song information on its screen, including the genre of music the song belongs too. I’m not sure how these genres are concocted, but there are definitely times when it feels like my Mp3 player is confused, and is just listing off several words to reassure me that…
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Fiend – Life Behind The Limo Glass
The fall of the No Limit Records is often attributed to the rise of Cash Money which seems like an easy conclusion- young lions beat old ones. The problem with this theory is that rap isn’t anything like boxing. There is never a revolution in Hip Hop. No, No Limit fell because their music began…
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Mac Miller- Best Day Ever
I pressed the play button and clutched the little speaker stand in my right hand. The volume is almost as loud as it can be, any louder and the bass makes a terrible popcorn popping sound. I looked right over at her face as she was driving, a simple head nod just to acknowledge that…
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Pac Div – Mania
Regions erect icons so large that they leer and oppress the younger generation. Every new rap artist in Atlanta is held against Andre 3000, while New York rappers do their best to imitate Jay-z right down to his ad-libs. This is the reason that The Game lost his mind and killed more fictional people on…
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