April 2012
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“We all self-conscious” has not taken on a new meaning post-Dropout....”
– Sean Fennessey, from his Pitchfork review of Kanye West’s Late Registration.
Well, it just took a few years for rap to catch up to him.
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Weeknd Fame
Drake and his producer Noah “40” Shebib received plenty of praise for the cohesive sound of Take Care, but album’s best moments belong to the Weeknd. “This ain’t no fucking sing-a-long, so girl what you singing for, because we blowing like a C4, my whole crew blowing like a C4”, fits nicely into Drake’s still adjusting to fame mindset and points the finger at all of those people turning his dark...
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Four Times This Week I'll Explain
The first song released from Take Care was 6 minutes of Drake drunk calling an ex-girlfriend called “Marvin’s Room”. Maybe, I’ve had too many drunk conversations with my friends, because the much mocked line “I’ve had sex four times this week I’ll explain, having a hard time adjusting to fame” is the one of the album’s rawest and most relate-able moments. Coming from...
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“I hope your choice of cars, is not a Chevy, but an armored truck. Because...”
– Juicy J, from “Bought Some Guns Yesterday”.
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“Trying to explain ‘pop’ in a half-paragraph is like decorating an Airfix model...”
– Joseph Morpurgo, from a Fact Magazine article about Araabmuzik’s Electronic Dream.
This article is like that awful Bebetune$ mixtape from James Ferraro in word form. As, it tries to force this bizarre thesis that while slightly interesting could use a lot of work explaining why...
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It's Alive: Did Nicki fail pop, or did pop fail... →
jordansargent:
This isn’t a rhetorical question; I’ve been thinking about it for a bit and still am not sure of the answer, if there even is one. But, now that the fervor over Roman Reloadedhas died down, I think it’s interesting to think about what the album means to pop. Is Nicki currently unable, or maybe unwilling, to navigate the waters of pop without resorting to the lowest common...
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Stereotyping Me
Waka Flocka Flame’s first hit single, “O Let’s Do It” was neo-crunk blast that slowly rose over month onto rap radio, peaking with an inspired Diddy and Rick Ross remix. But, its Waka second verse on the original song that foreshadows so much of his later work: “One shot man down, his brain go Ka-Pow, Ow, that shit hurts, so don’t fuck around, but here that happens often...
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Cocaine Blunts: DJ Diamond Kuts 04/07/2012 →
tumblinerb:
Spinning off of my Nicki Minaj review, I ripped four hours of the pride of Philadelphia spinning on Power 99 and posted it on my other rap blog. I’d like to do more shit like this and if you have any other suggestions for local mixshow DJs with unique taste and online streams please do let me know.
This weekend Noz did the lord’s work in allowing people to hear the mix show...
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Who Mastered This?: Sunday School
The Numbers:
“DJing”: N/A (No DJ)
Sound Quality: 7/10 (The issues I have with the sound are probably intentional…)
Length: 8/10 (Just a bit over 40 minutes, and with a few too short songs that
Production: 5/10 (See the review below)
Quality of Producer Names: 8/10 (The only producer here is Tree, which is a pretty memorable name for being so simple)
Review:
Sampling old soul records is nothing...
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