hip hop
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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
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A new video and track from Seattle MC Macklemore, featuring production from Ryan Lewis. In short, this video is fantastic. I wish it was around when I was in middle school and actually thought clothes and shoes mattered. Not that my parents had the money to lay down on a
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On the Cool Kids’ full-length debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles, the Chicago duo pulls together some impressive beats and features. The great beats are to be expected, but things really deteriorate in the rapping and lyricism departments. I know it’s band to simply get hung up over the lyricism
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Goodbye Brooklyn EP by Nemo Achida Hip Hop music’s tendency to be very personal has always been one of my major attractions to it. If you feel the same way, then Nemo Achida’s new EP is a short and sweet Tumblr post about a Southern boy’s newly
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Yes, it’s an ambitious and risky mashup of instrumentals made of Fugazi songs and verses from Wu-Tang-affiliated albums: Wugazi. Produced by Cecil Otter and Swiss Andy, some of the combinations here go over better than others. I think I would have come to the conclusion that these worlds are
