7.28.2023: Micheal is easily as good as Killer’s other project Run The Jewels records. Great fellow ATL quest rappers CeeLo Green and Andrea 3000 amongst others. I love this guy as a rapper, as a speaker, as an activist.
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4.14.2023: This is a exceptional hip-hop collaboration album between Brooklyn’s El Michels Affair and emcee Black Thought. I remember El Micels Wu-Tang backing instrumental albums from 2009.
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2022: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is the fifth studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, and his final project with Top Dawg Entertainment.
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2022: Aethiopes is the tenth studio album by the prolific Brooklyn rapper billy woods, and it is one of his most complex and ambitious works. The album is fully produced by Preservation
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2022: I love this cover art. It tells a story. A great combination of hip-hop and neo-soul. To me the backing goodies are important as the rhymes and flow. Few Good Things delivers here with smooth soundscapes and beats
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2021: I haven’t heard as much great innovative hip-hop from female artists in recent years. The Cardi-Doja-Stallion-Minaj releases are kinda meh. This Brit-Hop artist is certainly as exception.
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2021: Great swirling, dreamlike, psychedelic electronic goodness backing sharp-ass rhymes and flow. There is even a great “honestly, we’re outta gas” sample from MJ’s Thriller video
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2021: 2021: An assumption was made, when first seeing this album cover, that it is a hip-hop album. It might partly be but it is mainly an alternative R&B, neo-soul, rap-rock mash-up by a great new Australian artist.
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Stephen Kearse at Pitchfork writes: On paper, Freddie Gibbs, a straight-shooting street rapper, and Madlib, an eccentric tinkerer, are as mouth-watering a combo as licorice and pickle juice. But their collaborative 2014 album Piñata succeeded
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Matthew Strauss at Pitchfork writes: IGOR sounds like the work of a perfectionist giving shape to his more radical ideas. Tyler, who proudly produced, wrote, and arranged the album, is singing more but he’s not worrying whether his tracks have a traditional pop arc.
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7.18.17 I'll keep this short because there isn't anything about this talented young man's original work that hasn't already been said. Adorned with praise and awards I hope Lamar's original sound has shown folks that pop hip hop
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