hip hop
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On Watch the Throne, Kanye and Jay-Z team up for a celebration I’m sure their fans are going to love. The heavyweight MCs celebrate their relevancy, fame, and popularity with one track after another–occasionally stopping to make an introspective or societal observation. While the idea of the album
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A recently dropped set of demos and early work from 1 Minute Miracles, which can only make the trajectory of this Canadian beatmeister more interesting. It’s titled Wild Stepss, and stream its eight tracks above. Find more recent work from this guy on his SoundCloud. Hopefully, that album he
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Recently uploaded to SoundCloud, edits of the tracks “Work It,” “Hey Boy,” and “What My Last Girl Put Me Through.” Some of them, like “Hey Boy,” get pretty hypnotic in their execution. Nico just has a funny way of turning electronics into a dark and mesmerizing experience. If you’re
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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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When it comes to generating earworms, New York’s Das Racist works with a special recipe. The mistake most artists make is in trying to be meaningful or melodic. Nah, all you really need is an equal mixture of repetition and outlandishness. Throw “Michael Jackson, a million dollars, ya feel
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The ILLZ is Dominican-born rapper Delgis Jose Mustafa Rodriguez. The guy’s output since his ’09 debut, the Pursuit LP, hasn’t been plentiful, but it has been ambitious. Two of his most recent projects to drop is a compilation of his best material thus far, and a video mixtape.
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This new song featuring Louisiana MC Jay Electronica comes because it’s on the forthcoming Bullitts album They Die By Dawn and Other Short Stories. This isn’t the first time Jay and the Bullitts have worked together, though. The project, dropped a single in 2010 titled “Close Your Eyes.
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Though Blackenedwhite isn’t perfect, it’s definitely a likeable release from this OFWGKTA-affiliated duo. With Hodgy Beats on the mic and Left Brain building the beats, the tracks here offer up a series of fantasy raps about girls, weed, and guns. This is by no means an mind-blower of
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Pittsburgh-based teenage rap upstart Mac Miller has a new video out for his hit song “Best Day Ever,” the title track from the mixtape he released back in March. Miller may be associated with the college hip hop scene, but to dismiss him as just another frat bro rapper would
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MP3 After teasing your ears with a remix from the upcoming collaborative album from (MF) DOOM and Ghostface Killah–a.k.a. DOOMSTARKS–we finally have an original to munch on. It was premiered via XXL, and I found it on 130BPM. And maybe it’s because I wasn’t
