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Sounds like:
Roc Marciano,
Quelle,
Guilty Simpson
By
sweeney kovar
on
Oct 26, 2012
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Sean Price is not for the faint of heart. The middle-aged brownsville MC sounds as smooth as sandpaper when he's threating to slap your mother or rob you. He's been rapping for over two decades as part of the famed Boot Camp Click and Heltah Skeltah ...
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By
sweeney kovar
on
Oct 25, 2012
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Coming from Pimpstead, Long Island, Roc Marciano as risen to the top tier of spitters since his 2010 slow-burning masterpiece Marcberg. Over a dozen or so self-productions, Roc's solemn and stylish opus breathed life back into dead tropes with a razo...
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Sounds like:
Quelle,
Samiyam,
Atmosphere
By
sweeney kovar
on
Sep 24, 2012
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Michigan has been a breeding ground for some of the finest in hip-hop for decades. From MC Breed to J Dilla, from rhymes to beats, it's trite by now to say there's something in the water in the mitten. The tradition continues with MC SelfSays, coming...
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Sounds like:
Fashawn,
Homeboy Sandman,
Quelle
By
sweeney kovar
on
Sep 18, 2012
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Last time I talked about the new Blu and Exile album, Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them, I kinda shitted on it slightly, but it was, at the very least, a backhanded compliment. I feel like I should rephrase a thing or two: this is a fuc...
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5

Sounds like:
Quelle,
Ka,
Action Bronson
By
sweeney kovar
on
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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6

Sounds like:
Quelle,
Atmosphere,
Action Bronson,
Jay-Z
By
sweeney kovar
on
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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By
sweeney kovar
on
Aug 20, 2012
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Fresh Daily has been a staple of NYC's underground hip-hop scene for at least half a decade. Since last year's The Quiet Life, Fresh has become one of the more talented yet lesser known underground big apple MCs.His latest project, The Brooklyn Good ...
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Sounds like:
Quelle,
Jeremiah Jae,
Azizi Gibson,
Scoop DeVille,
Jon Wayne
By
sweeney kovar
on
Aug 2, 2012
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Some of the purest moments in hip hop are spur of the moment. A few nights ago, unexpected and out of the blue, Jon Wayne dropped "Night School" on his SoundCloud page. The six-minute-plus banger is produced by Wayne, whose quirky but funky style is ...
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