Tag: Mixtapes
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Songs of the year: Vado-Off Hiatus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0sTX45tNE Songs of the year: Vado-Off Hiatus by Dan-O Slime Flu 3 is the strangest mixtape of the year so far. Half of it is boring because Vado raps so slow that his punch lines seem to be running through swamp water but the other half is like this. That other half where you catch…
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Kevin Gates-The Luca Brasi Story Mixtape Review
Kevin Gates-The Luca Brasi Story Mixtape Review by Dan-O The great unheralded fact about rap music is that most MC’s are not, in fact, on beat. About ten percent of every major artist who lays verses to records can really do it(Nas, E-40) but these are a select few. Not being able to do it…
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Curren$y-New Jet City review
Curren$y-New Jet City review by Dan-O So many rappers have claimed a link between their lyrics and the novels of Donald Goines. I don’t think any of them do it as a shallow reputation boost, Goines is still the biggest selling African American author in history…a jailed genius who spun ghetto landscape into Shakespearean tragedy.…
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Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there(Coke Rap Era)
Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there Re-up Gang-20k Money Making Brothers on the Corner by Dan-O Re-up Gang-20k Money Making Brothers on the Corner When coke rap really gained steam I fell for it. Not because I’m a fan of cocaine. I’ve never done any drug in my life… I just…
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Freestyles to Free albums: The songs that got us there(Game edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5YpjBVTpwA Freestyles to Free albums: The songs that got us there Game-300 Bars N Runnin by Dan-O A narrative has started on twitter, mostly by radio personalities and fellow rappers that Game has never had a wack album, untrue. He made a wack album called LAX. The narrative has its foundation in 300 Bars N…
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From Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there(Saigon edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sToT5sup2DI Freestyles to Free albums: the songs that got us there Saigon-Desperado by Dan-O The difference between the history of rap and the history of mixtapes is a lot like the difference between college basketball history and pro basketball history. Christian Laettner and Larry Bird could share space in a college hall of fame but…
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DJ Burn One x AC -Steady Dabbin mixtape review
The need to review a mixtape isn’t just based on affection for it. If that were the case you would be able to find a review for every DJ Burn One mixtape on this site. A review for the DJ Burn One and AC-Steady Dabbin mixtape is happening because on top of it being well…
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A story of two compilations
A story of two compilations by Dan-O Try to remember the last hip hop compilation album anyone was impressed by. The Self-Made series just seem to highlight how artificially put together MMG feels, if you go back to the G-Unit compilation it was the first indicator of how limited G-unit was conceptually. Preconceptions destroy the compilation;…
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Freestyles to free albums:the songs that got us there
Freestyles to free albums:the songs that got us there by Dan-O If you know Tru Life it could be for the wrong reason, stabbings in 2009, a fatalists relationship to beef dvds. You might remember Jay-Z signing him as Dipset protection never with any intentions to help his career. Tru Life did for a brief time move…
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Starlito-Funerals and Court Dates Mixtape review
Starlito-Funerals & Court Dates Mixtape review by Dan-O It’s become pretty commonplace to hear a rapper call out that they make movies. Projecting that big screen cinematic larger-than-life story can draw in a lot of fans. Starlito’s new mixtape Funerals and Court Dates feels more like a play, spotlight on him as the sad clown Pagliacci oscillating…
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