Tag: hip hop
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I always have a hard time reviewing hip-hop records, because there’s so much to them. You have the beats, the words, and a lot of scribbling into the void, and hope for someone to hear. That’s where I find myself in trying to review “Shadows on the Sun”. I find myself scribbling and trying to…
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2006 was an interesting year for me; I was living in Los Angeles and was in college. The Art Institute isn’t there anymore, but I’m glad that I went to college and even got a master’s, and along the way I’ve had many different soundtracks to push through, including Pigeon John’s fourth record, “And The…
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I was sitting in a cubicle in Los Angeles and overheard an argument about “Good Kid, M.A.A.d city”. One person said it was the best record of 2012, the other stated that there was something else, and I was just looking at escort ads. Cubicle land sucks unless you have headphones and an endless stream…
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An hour and five minutes of hip-hop is what you get when you decide to put on the debut studio record from Talib Kweli. Starting things off on “Quality” is Dave Chappelle, keynote speaker, who tells a random story with a cool soothing beat. Then, we are treated to Kweli’s rhymes. Forget what you know…