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Grieves – Together/Apart album review
If you’re struggling with life’s trials and tribulations, Seattle breakout rapper Grieves wants you to know you’re not alone. His debut album, Together/Apart chronicles the struggles of a regular old guy – one who stops at nothing to dramatically bring to life what those struggles are. Vivid imagery and clever metaphors dominate Together/Apart, which strays from the traditional rapper’s norm of slayin’ bitches and rollin’ on 22’s by simply coming out and saying that life – both in and out [...]
Pharcyde – NXNE
Yonge and Dundas square was raring for some ill hip-hop for North by Northeast Festival(NXNE) June 19th, a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Hip hop was on display as the headliners for the festival — Pharcyde — were set to take center stage. Many a hip hop head came out to a free show with one of the heavy weights of nineties hip hop aka the golden era. They literally shut down Yonge and blockaded it for what had to [...]
Big Sean – Finally Famous album review
Finally Famous Sean Don aka Big Sean finally has a barcode out and about on Tuesday June 28. The G.O.O.D. music signed MC has been waiting in the wings for this opportunity ever since he dropped a sixteen in front of Mr. Yeezy back in ’05. The Finally Famous mix tape series — volumes one through three — having been deemed a success built his buzz to the point were it was time to drop the barcode on them. The [...]
Action Bronson – Dr. Lecter album review
It’s not often that one uses the word “classy” or “refined” to describe a rap record. Now, I’m not saying that Action Bronson’s new album Dr. Lecter is defunct of profanity or the sporadic salacious reference; no, I promise you all of the obscenities and crude imagery anyone would hope for in any legitimate rap song. But Action Bronson does something inventive with his album in that he perfectly marries a rap mentality — complete with allusions to blunts and [...]
Big Sean – Finally Famous album review
Detroit rapper Big Sean says he’s ‘finally famous,’ and if the VIP cast on his album of the same name is any indication, you should probably take him seriously. Finally Famous is the symbol of Big Sean’s glamorous come-up in the rap industry – and glamorous this album is. As his first studio album, it’s the culmination of his grandiose dreams of making it big, all the way from rapping for the first time for Kanye at a local Detroit [...]
Bad Meets Evil – Hell: The Sequel album review
I’m going to say this right off the bat: Bad Meets Evil’s album Hell: the Sequel is probably not going to sway you one way or another about Eminem. I was truly hoping for a mind-changer, as I call it – a song, an experience, a revelation that can completely transform your opinion of an artist – but alas, I was not rewarded. Let me backtrack a bit by saying that, lyrically, there’s nothing wrong with Eminem or Royce Da [...]
Tech N9ne – All 6′s and 7′s album review
With his thirteenth studio album, All 6’s and 7’s, Tech N9ne truly spits pure, raw, dripping art. Disclaimer: if you can’t stomach gangster rap in its truest form, in all of the veins in which it exists, this album is not for you. But I will say this: what is at times harsh, obscene, almost cringe-worthy…is the same stuff that makes All 6’s and 7’s hit its intended notes directly on the head. It’s what keeps me coming back to [...]
Blu – Her Favorite Colo(u)r album review
Music is an art, this is not a surprise. We regard it as such because it requires time, love, devotion and placing one’s thoughts and emotions in a form that is tangible; therefore making it permanent. Music is a special art because it uses the words that we speak everyday to create a line of consciousness, fun, and maybe even memories. That is the kind of art that present in the new album from Blu entitled, “Her Favorite Colo(U)R”. This [...]
TAO Nightclub presents ERICK MORILLO TAO Las Vegas 5 Year Anniversary Memorial Day Weekend Sunday, May 29, 2011
TAO Nightclub presents ERICK MORILLO TAO Las Vegas 5 Year Anniversary Memorial Day Weekend Sunday, May 29, 2011 With Las Vegas now firmly established as an international hotspot for house music, TAO Las Vegas is going back to where it all started. On Sunday, May 29, TAO Nightclub presents the return of international superstar Erick Morillo for an epic 8 hour set to celebrate the fifth year anniversary of a legendary Memorial Day Weekend event that first put Vegas on [...]
Tyler, the Creator – Goblin review
Odd Future Wolf Gang… KILL EM ALL! Normally I would I start this review with some stupid crap about how I feel and what I learned this time round with this Tyler, the Creator album. Instead I’m going to throw out a quote from Tyler himself. It basically sums up every review I have done and every review that I will do in the future. “Listen deeper into the music before you put it into the box.” It’s true. Before [...]
