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A round-up of the greatest albums Anthony reviewed this past month!
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The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.
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Mr. Carter kills his ego and spills the beans on his most intimate album yet.
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Off a dusty piano sample and a generous Jay-Z vocal cut, Connecticut’s Apathy spits a series of bars dealing with the Kennedy family. He muses on various follies and conspiracies that have been following the family for decades, and does it with his usual level of focus and vivid
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One of this year’s biggest bangers gets some pretty cool visuals thanks for director Nabil. Not much else to say other than I hope this successful single leads to more collaborations from Baauer and Just Blaze in the future. Check a review for “Harlem Shake” here.
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Jay-Z returns to putting out rap albums with Maga Carta… Holy Grail, and raps about as well as you’d expect at this point in his career over some pretty fresh production. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On God Forgives, I Don’t, Florida rapper Rick Ross drops one drug lord delusion after another against a backdrop of beats that sound as lavash as Ross’ persistent fantasies. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On his first official full-length album on Roc Nation, rapper and producer J. Cole takes the talents he’s been perfecting on past mixtapes and goes big time with them. WATCH THE REVIEW
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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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On the second track to drop from this collaboration between Kanye West and Jay-Z, we get an Otis Redding sample, an answer as to who invented swag, and a whole lotta hot air. Sure, Kanye West and Jay-Z are notorious for their bragging skills. But when they’re together, those
