EVolution, 2001
Download: Track08.mp3 username: bardon, pwd: vendare Track 8 = 2:25 – 3:15 great lyrics, sound levels are off & hook sucks. Props to EVolution & MC Reis Tagged: 2001, Coltrane, Evolution, MC...
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Thank you, Phonte of Little Brother, for leaving the rap game at your absolute lyrical apex with Tigaallo for Dolo, a Nas is Like. . . or The Sixth Sense au revoir to the youthful hubris of being a...
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View ArticleBeat Street Beginnings
well, hopefully this video doesn’t get taken down: yeah, beat street (king of the beat), featuring mel, flash and the furious five in their coked-out 80′s best. why post this corny-hooked yet lyrically...
View ArticleCannibal Ox, Live at Los Globos Los Angeles October 8th
I was enough to score tickets to Cannibal Ox last week, at the Los Globos venue in Silverlake. Was an interesting venue, as “who are you here to see” “Cannibal Ox” led us “upstairs and to the left.”...
View ArticleRanking eMCees: the Naje Scale
This is a project about 17 years in the making. I’d previously toyed with methods to rank rappers/eMCees/lyricists, and most efforts were either too simple (who are the dopest rappers!!!) or too...
View ArticleKanye West and ye: minimalist deflection
I initially thought that I would wait my prerequisite three months to listen to Kanye West’s new release, “ye” – I typically want the ‘noise’ to subside so I can take an uninhibited, zero-influence...
View ArticleKIDS SEE GHOSTS
The third release in the Kanye West pentalogy, KIDS SEE GHOSTS serves as a wildly successful (re)union of West and Kid Cudi. The chemistry exudes throughout the album, as Cudi’s emotive howls haunt...
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