Weary doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Tonight I’m vibing with Chicago singer and multi-instrumentalist KeiyaA‘s superlative debut, Forever, Ya Girl from last year.
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There’s something about ’90s hip-hop which is so perfect for lost gems.
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Now here’s a gem.
Alright, so backstory. In 1986 hip-hop was transitioning from a fad into a cultural and commercial juggernaut, and the Beastie Boys were there to push it over the edge.
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WHEW LAWD! Now if I could bring back any defunct group from the ether, it’d have to be New Kingdom.
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Yo, this is like the dopest reference I’ve ever seen to an operating system, ever.
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This week I’ve been revisiting I’m New Here, the final record from the spoken-word poet Gil Scott-Heron.
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“…And I did it up!”
billy woods (all lowercase, no gimmicks) really is becoming one of my favorite artists.
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Last week we lost a hip-hop legend: Prodigy, in his own words, “a dirty New Yorker” and one-half of the seminal duo Mobb Deep, along with his partner Havoc.
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Haunted, indeed.
Poe (not the writer) is the alias of singer and songwriter Anne Decatur Danielewski, who got the music world’s attention in 1995 with her debut album Hello, a solid modern rock record which established her as a force in female vocalists with attitude, bringing anger, emotion, and power to her music.
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Right down to the badass cover (stunting on a wrecked Caddy…nice comment that posturing is all garbage anyway), Elucid‘s (short for elucidate?)
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