Tag: Detroit Hip Hop
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FME MVP 2020 HONORABLE MENTION-BOLDY JAMES
by Dan-O The lyrical space Boldy James inhabits is insular but not in a safe way, it’s a tight container terrorized by the external world. Just look at the chorus to Giant Slide from his game changing collaborative album with Alchemist called The Price of Tea In China: “Cold game in these streets, kept it…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR ELUCID
I want us to think about what liberation means. I want us to think about and imagine what a free and just and liberated world looks like. I want you to think about yourself and what you bring to the table to vision these things possible. by Dan-O It took me too long to realize…
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Mixtape review-41-P by Payroll Giovanni
Mixtape review-41-P by Payroll Giovanni by Dan-O Payroll Giovanni is my kind of MC. Mentally he is tougher than shark skin with a flow that can speedbag the beat to impressive levels. The other thing to love about the thirty year old rapper from Detroit is that he’s always working and its good smart work. His…
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Song of The Year-Ain’t It Funny by Danny Brown produced by Paul White
Song of The Year-Ain’t It Funny by Danny Brown produced by Paul White by Dan-O Atrocity Exhibition is a special album. I accidentally loaded it in my mp3 player twice and I have not corrected that. Whenever I listen I never skip songs. I listen to every one twice & it hasn’t been a problem. …
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Mixtape Review-Sell Sole by Dej Loaf
Mixtape Review-Sell Sole by Dej Loaf by Dan-O I became completely infatuated with the Dej Loaf mixtape Sell Sole on track 7. It was great before that but the shorthand I had been using in my head about Dej Loaf based on her snarling single Try Me was “This is a little female 50 cent;…
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