conscious hip hop
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Featuring Roc Marciano and Masai Bey against some Willie Green production, here’s a new Billy Woods track titled “Body of Work.” Woods is an East Coast MC whose delivery on this track reads more like abstract slam poetry than it does rap. The jazzy flute solos placed into the
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A new music video from the abstract hip hop project known as Shabazz Palaces. It’s for the track “Are You…Can You…Were You? (Felt),” which is easily one of my favorites from the outfit’s new album, Black Up. /via/
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MP3 A track from the new 6-track EP from New York’s Homeboy Sandman. He’s got a pretty bold description for it, too: “6 rap songs with content no one has ever rapped about before in the history of rap music. Unfortunately not a very difficult thing to do.
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New from Fool’s Gold Recs, this is Danny Brown’s XXX. Brown is one of the strangest rappers you’re gonna stumble across right now. After a cursory listen to this album, I’m ready to put him up there with Shabazz Palaces and Death Grips. I mean, the
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Here’s one of the many reasons I love MJF. He turned me on to this ish, so listen up. This has got to be the most interesting video I’ve seen since Shad’s “Rose Garden,” which also used reverse techniques to subtly line up Shad’s lyrics with
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Disputed Truth by Castle Castle is the solo effort of rapper Chris Um’Rani–or maybe it’s “Frank,” because he does refer to himself with that name quite a bit in this music. And allegedly, this is supposed to be his last release for a while. According to his
