By
sweeney kovar
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Aug 27, 2012
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Roc Marciano is an MC who has that core of hip hop excited, the heads who are always unsatisfied and unimpressed, the grouchy old jaded experts. His mastery of the English language and N.Y. aesthetic are evident in his renaissance classic Marcberg. O...
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By
sean o
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Jul 8, 2012
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I was not ready for "Perfect Combination" when I pressed play. I had been trolling through my SoundCloud and stumbled across this York, U.K.-based producer named Handbook. I thought I would scope a few of his tunes and move on with my day. I learned ...
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By
David Peter Simon
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Nov 15, 2011
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There are two Drakes. There's the popular Drake, the one that everyone knows and some dislike (like my dear friends Amanda and Anthony), and then there's the one that not many people appreciate -- the underground mixtape king who fought his way throu...
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By
Jess Johnson
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Sep 26, 2011
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The Internet has changed the music industry in more ways than one. In one way, the ease of downloading a retail album illegally has decreased sales and decreased the power that major labels once had. In another way, the Internet has lowered the barri...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Sep 9, 2011
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Danny Brown might have been considered a fringe artist this time last year, but the recent release of his newest (free!) album XXX and its proceeding reception show that the hybrid's popularity is growing by the day. A quick recap: In the mid 2000s D...
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By
sweeney kovar
on
Jun 13, 2011
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Random Axe is the indie rap supergroup made up of Detroit's Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, and Brooklyn's own Sean Price (aka Ruck of Heltah Skeltah). The project has been a long time in the making since the group made its debut on "Run" from Guilty's O...
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