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Nujabes – Spiritual State
Jun Seba is dead. He’s been that way since a tragic traffic accident on February 26th of 2010, leaving an enormous legacy and a brief and highly concentrated discography in his wake. The man known as...
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T-Pain – RevolveR
Remember back when T-Pain was a big thing and journalists awarded him titles like ‘Autotune Wizard’ and ‘The Man That Brought Auto-Crooning To R&B’? Well gang, it’s time for another T-Pain...
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Die Antwoord – Ten$Ion
Ninja’s got a new tattoo: “TEN$ION” right across his stomach to celebrate their new album, matching the colossal “$0$” down his back and the crude lyrics scrawled all down his neck and arms. If it were...
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A$AP ROCKY – LONG.LIVE.A$AP
This is a long one, folks, so let me summarize it for you here: if you work anywhere like I work, you know that A$AP’s a bit of an institution these days in popular hip-hop, and there’s a reason for...
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Akira The Don – ATD29
Akira the Don’s relationship to mixtape culture is as extensive as it is instrumental to his success, but perhaps the sight of ATD29 (that’s ATD Mixtape Number 29) up there is going to turn people off,...
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Danny Brown – OLD
“I can’t really say what it focuses on, because I don’t really know what it focuses on.” Oh man, Danny Brown. Anyone that made it to the end of XXX knows that Danny never really expected to make it...
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Deltron 3030 – Event 2
There’s been a lot of discussion of Event 2 around the nest lately, and we’ve come to some sort of consensus that the thing was doomed to failure long before it had a chance to release. Even when the...
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Flatbush Zombies – BetterOffDEAD
Say what you will about Tyler, the Creator and Odd Future, but their impact on modern hip-hop culture is impossible to ignore. Take Flatbush Zombies: carving their way into the rap landscape toting...
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Death Grips – Government Plates
Reviewing Death Grips is really, really difficult. Well alright, maybe it isn’t difficult, but it might be ridiculous and unnecessary. Any discussion of Death Grips as a musical.. project.. thing is...
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M.I.A. – Matangi
“If you wanna be me you need a manifesto” Does everyone remember Kala, M.I.A’s real critical breakthrough album, and the reason the radio knows her name? That’s “Bird Flu”, “Jimmy” and, of course,...
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