Action was born and raised in Flushing, Queens. He is of Albanian and Jewish descent. He used to be a respected fire-flame gourmet chef in New York City, but gave up cooking for a ...read more on Last.fm →
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sweeney kovar
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Jul 25, 2013
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90s nostalgia is in fifth gear with popular culture right now, including hip-hop. From NWA to underground Memphis rap, folks that were in single digits when DJ Screw first pitched down a tape are infatuated with everything from that era. At times thi...
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sweeney kovar
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Jul 8, 2013
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I was raking my brain trying to think of what song off Magna Carta, Holy Grail to post. Jay-Z albums are hip-hop events at this age. Problem was, I didn't hate it, I didn't love it; it was an un-event. Maybe it was the humble headphones I listened to...
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sweeney kovar
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May 29, 2013
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If you're like me, you don't really get your panties twisted and wet over Daft Punk. As I throw my tomato-stained white shirt in the trash, let me explain my position. I grew up just before the Internet hit en masse. My primary forms of music discove...
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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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sweeney kovar
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Aug 22, 2012
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To me, this kind of track exemplifies what the mixtape freestyle (not an actual freestyle, more of a genre-within-a-genre) can allow space for. My favorite instances of a rapper singing over another's instrumental found the visiting MC starting off f...
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Jason Grishkoff
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May 25, 2012
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This is definitely one of those hip-hop tracks that will catch your attention super quickstyle.Fronted by Statik Selektah and Termanology, 1982 have been collaborating on tracks for a couple years now. "Lights Down" marks the release of a wealth of n...
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