By
sweeney kovar
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Oct 16, 2015
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Lyman Woodard Organization's Saturday Night Special is a diggers record. The Detroit LP packs the kind of artfully arranged jazz-funk hybrid that has hypnotized hip-hop era record sleuths.
It's one of DJ House Shoes' favorite records. So much so tha...
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sweeney kovar
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Sep 30, 2015
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Funking is laborious, particularly the ascended mastery that George Clinton has breached in his decades dedicated to the humanitarian activity. It's impossible to overstate his shaping of modern music.
On his latest single, Clinton acknowledges the...
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By
sean o
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Sep 28, 2015
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It doesn't take a rap genius to understand that The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" is about the singer's relationship with cocaine. Musicians have been rhyming about drugs for years. There may be no better expression of this metaphor than MF Doom's "M...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Sep 24, 2015
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It's Knx season.
From the Kendrick joint to touring with Earl and teasing what seems like a monster R&B album with Anderson .Paak, Knx's efforts are reaping some beautiful fruit. This doesn't mean the young prodigy is letting go of old ways.
T...
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By
Clyde Erwin Barretto
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Sep 23, 2015
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Drake's "Hotline Bling" may not have been the banger we're used to hearing from the Canadian pop-rap artist, but it fit in quite well with the sweater-wearing emo hip-hop tracks we'd hear from him time to time. In fact, the track got so much love tha...
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By
Almond Ivan
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Sep 19, 2015
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I'm pretty shocked that we've never covered Jonwayne before. Well, I'm not that shocked – he is one of the most slept-on hip-hop artists out there.
"Need to clean the wax out – leaving honeycombs on my ear-phones. You lames don't listen to lyrics, y...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Sep 2, 2015
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Finale is the one of the most intricate rhymers in Detroit. The passionate and soft-spoken MC laces his rhymes with vivid humanity. He army crawled his way out of the open mic scene to being legitimately seen as a peer by Detroit luminaries. Just as ...
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By
Dylan Heneck
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Aug 28, 2015
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How about that?! A Drake Afro bootleg. Skeptical you are, indeed. Go with the flow, you must. I'm equally as amped about this bootleg as I am about the new Star Wars, if you can't tell.
Yeah it's a free download, and yeah it's got support by Leroy S...
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