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MP3 (page link) New track from beatmaster Apollo Brown, featuring Oddisee on the mic. Brown’s Clouds came out at the start of March. If you’re down with instrumental hip hop, it’s a vacation worth taking. “The Times” is one of the few tracks that breaks the instrumental
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails pointing my ears toward Death Grips. There’s talk around the blog-o-sphere about who is involved with this project and how. Names like Zach Hill keep coming up, too, which doesn’t surprise me since some of the production moves on this
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New, free mixtape / album from Big K.R.I.T. titled Returnof4eva. Just download it! –
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At SXSW, there were a lot of acts I ran into unexpectedly. Big K.R.I.T. was one of them, and I was way more impressed with that guy in person than I was on record. He’s got a new album dropping on the 28th, and this is
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In my SXSW travels, I ended up meeting Boston MC Reks. It kinda developed into a long hip hop conversation, and I eventually asked him what shows he was going to. Out of all the rappers he listed, Mac Miller stuck out in my head. As popular as the guy
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With heavy beats and a strong flow, Reks’ latest album is an extremely admirable piece of hip hop. It’s true blue lyrical homicide. Listen to iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! WATCH THE REVIEW
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A video for “25th Hour,” which is off Reks‘ new album, R.E.K.S. (Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme). –
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As much as it pains me to say this, there’s not much about this new Raekwon album that excites me. The beats attempt to copy the trademark RZA sound, the rhymes are decent at best, and the features are simply alright, too. It’s pretty obvious that this release
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On Fashawn’s latest mixtape, the Fresno rapper sounds as hungry as ever. He sounds fucking alive. He doesn’t come off fake either. There’s over an hour of material, and some of it seems a little half-baked–and I’m not talking about the weed references. But it’
