hip hop
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With hip hop’s often me-centric standpoint, SOL brings something you don’t catch on a lotta tracks these days: Sympathy for your fellow man. SOL doesn’t get too wrapped up in his own problems on this track. Actually, some of the bars here elude to him doing well
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Rapper Danny Brown returns with Old. It’s an album that mirrors the Detroit native’s constant cycle of drug-fueled partying and remorse that was introduced on 2011’s XXX. The major difference this time around being heavier instrumentals and Danny’s split personalities feeling even more at odds.
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West Coast MC LMNO laid some visuals to the track “Dyslexic” early last month, and it’s one of the many cuts from his new, Evidence-produced album, After The Fact. It’s an interesting little concept track with interesting lyrical reversals, switching letters and entire halves of words within bars
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Made Man EP by Hot Sugar Beatsmith Hot Sugar has always had a quirkier style than most when it comes to production, and it’s great to hear him enlist a gauntlet of MCs that compliment it on his new Made Man EP. Now, is this thing really an EP?
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October 8th is the release date for Pusha T’s forthcoming album, My Name Is My Name, and I’m pretty psyched given all of the solid tracks that have dropped thus far. “King Push” just adds to that winning streak with a wild beat that’s both zany and
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Toronto rapper Drake is back with his 3rd commercial release, Nothing Was The Same. Here, Drake continues with his lyrical obsession with the tattered relationships of his past, which is fine, but he hops on a gauntlet of nutty trap beats on this LP that are less than flattering to
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With each new track I hear, I’m convinced that 3:33 is the darkest beatmusic project out there. The stuff 3:33 produces is nothing but chills, torture, muck, and shadows. The two tracks embedded above are hellish examples from the forthcoming album, Bicameral Brain, which will be out
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British rapper ThisisDA is slated to release his full-length debut, Super Arkane, later this year. Above, check out the project’s lead single, “Lifers,” a simultaneously hard-hitting and colorful piece of boom-bap produced by Mancunian beatsmith Mankub, who lends instrumentals to the entire album. Enjoy!
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New York rapper Cakes Da Killa comes through with a new single that’s hard-hitting, fun, and clubby. I’d say he really embraces the club atmosphere with the instrumental here–courtesy of Siyoung–and his notoriously fast and zany flow is still pretty captivating, far from stale. Scope my
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Aside from a few unnecessary tracks that could have been a lot better with some more fleshing out, the new Flatbush Zombies tape is incredibly solid, grimy, cunning, and hilarious. Instrumentally, vocally, and lyrically, these three Flatbush natives bring plenty of thrills and personality.
