Tag: Mixtapes
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Songs of the Year-Invisible Girl by T-Pain
Songs of the Year-Invisible Girl by T-Pain by Dan-O I’ve accepted the terms of my relationship to T-Pain. His albums are going to be mediocre to bad; on those albums will be placed two, three or more outstanding songs. Of those one will be a titanic smash for me that I could take time off…
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Freddie Gibbs #BFK mixtape review
Freddie Gibbs #BFK mixtape review by Dan-O On a handful of occasions I’ve closed my eyes and listened to a Freddie Gibbs verse as if I was listening to the next Kool G Rap. Someone who would redefine tough talk for a new generation; that’s a great vision but G Rap never had to refine…
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The WHOevers-Redtape review
The WHOevers-Redtape review by Dan-O My biggest fascination with The Whoevers-Redtape might be the theme. The cover is red with the iconic picture of Dr. J and Larry Bird in their famous 80’s choke pose. The first track (Walk These Dogs-Voodoo) uses Celtics legend and courtside homer Tommy Heinsohn along with his robot commentating partner for…
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Troy Ave-Bricks in My Backpack 3:The Harry Powder Trilogy review
Troy Ave-Bricks in my Backpack 3:The Harry Powder Trilogy review by Dan-O I think cocaine is much more symbolic in hip hop than people give credit. Everyone knows the literal impression that coke leaves on impoverished neighborhoods (at least you think you know cause you saw that documentary). Don’t forget that hip hop grew up…
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Shyne-Gangland mixtape review
Shyne-Gangland mixtape review by Dan-O When Shyne made it out of his legal trouble the people who were around for his initial run were very hopeful. He had carved out a niche whispering truly elaborate mob stories that Biggie would have been proud of over exciting Bad Boy production. Everyone who looked forward to his music…
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Tree Sunday School deluxe edition mixtape review
Tree Sunday School deluxe edition mixtape review by Dan-O Tree is someone you are going to absolutely love or despise. For a lot of people the kind of guttural vocal performance found on his new mixtape Sunday School will be linked to the movement of chorus dependent trap rap(in the Chief Keef realm) that seem…
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Mookie Jones-Mack
Mookie Jones-Mack by Dan O More than a few reasonable people would like to edit The Mack out of blaxploitation history along with the pimp rap it spawned. If hip hop is a culture it’s undoubtedly a family as well full of cousins you brag about and uncles you NEVER speak too. Pimp rap is…
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Joey Bada$$-1999
by Dan-O The day before I heard the debut Joey Bada$$ mixtape 1999 I was in Wal-mart talking about how staggeringly important Illmatic is. Not just that it’s a classic album but that a teenage street kid can go from unknown to burning lyrical imprints upon generations of listeners. For those that think of rap…
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IAMSU! – KILT
There are a lot of factors that should be taken into account when discussing why artists destroy the sound they worked hard to build and replace it with something new and unsatisfying. Look at Mac Miller, for example; he came up making fun, silly music and is now trying on different introspection suits that just…
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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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