Tag: J Cole
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Three Big Winners from Rapsody’s Eve album
Three Big Winners from Rapsody’s Eve album by Dan-O Albums-With an aggregate score on Metacritic of 91 out of a 100 Rapsody’s new album Eve is not consummable in pop music chunks. While it is sixty two minutes and fifty seven seconds long It is so heavily thematic that every song acts as a vital puzzle piece in the…
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Song of The Year-Whipped Cream by Ari Lennox
Song of The Year-Whipped Cream by Ari Lennox by Dan-O I’m impressed with Dreamville. It’s a talented roster of artists from J.I.D. to Cozz to Bas and Ari Lennox but talent is all over the place. Talent doesn’t surprise me. Any rap label headed by an artist runs into the same problem: ‘you can be…
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Song of The Year-Westbrook by J.I.D. featuring A$AP FERG produced by Christo
Song of The Year-Westbrook by J.I.D. featuring A$AP FERG produced by Christo by Dan-O It’s exciting when a new voice comes into full bloom for the public. In March of 2017 when J.I.D. put out his album The Never Story the underground publications sang about it and didn’t stop until the end of the year. It…
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Nick Grant and The Hip Hop Cultural Divide
Nick Grant and The Hip Hop Cultural Divide by Dan-O A lot of hip hop’s most important cultural “beefs” are forced onto it from the audience and not actually a problem the artists have. The west coast/east coast beef comes to mind as an example. What is happening right now is the great splitting of…
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Mixtape Review-It’s Better This Way by Big K.R.I.T.
Mixtape Review-It’s Better This Way by Big K.R.I.T. by Dan-O Would it be controversial if I said K.R.I.T. would already be a legend in his own time if he was white? Would it be outrageous for me to say that he would be standing next to Drake in sales if he was from New York?…
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Song of The Year-No Sleeep by Janet Jackson featuring J.Cole
Song of The Year-No Sleeep by Janet Jackson featuring J.Cole by Dan-O At the height of her fame Janet was stuck smack in the middle between two of the most important female artists in history. Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey were in a high note arms race, holding the microphone and bending backward belting and…
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