Hip Hop – R&B – Soul
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Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager
Six people stand around a table in a high rise apartment in Chicago’s Gold Coast. A musician/producer, an actor, an insurance salesman, a photographer, a student and an amateur music critic; all discussing numerous contemporary social topics, all connected with varying degrees of familiarity, arriving at a topic where everyone...
Beats Antique – Blind Threshold
In the late 90’s, Talking Heads singer David Byrne wrote an essay on his distaste for the World Music market. In fact, the essay was unequivocally called “I Hate World Music.” The essay detailed how World Music exists as an umbrella term for anything non-western or ethnic and the act...
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
This is either a pretty good album or the hip hop album of the year. I can’t tell. I’ve listened to it about a million times and hit the repeat on my favorite tracks just as many, if not more; and I’m still utterly baffled. Is this just a good...
Inspired Flight – We All Want to Fly
We All Want to Fly is Inspired Flight’s first album as it follows a 3 song EP released about a year earlier. Great electronica relies on a delicate balance of beat and minimalist vocals, and Inspired Flight managed such a feat with this full length debut. Much of the album...
Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude
Das Racist, the Brooklyn based duo behind the internet sensation “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” produced a surprisingly good record with Shut Up Dude, Mixtape. Anyone familiar with this track or the YouTube video knows how ridiculous, yet entertaining the song is. The album retains the fun and hilarious...
The Roots – How I Got Over
It’s simply impossible for The Roots to make a bad album. The worst that the crew from Philly can do is record an album less-good than their others. And even their less-good shit is twice as good as almost everything out there. Scientifically speaking: (The Roots-Album X ≥ The Roots-Album...
Nas and Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
In life, some seemingly unlikely combinations just make sense. That first time someone told you to pour orange juice in your 40 oz after drinking to the top of the label, or when someone introduced you to dipping your french fries in your chocolate shake at Wendy’s – shit just...
Reflection Eternal – Revolutions Per Minute
Reflection Eternal is Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek; and even though Kweli claims that he and Mos Def are the best alliance in hip hop, Reflection Eternal definitely cracks the top 10. So after much hype, several mixtapes and ten years of fan anticipation, Revolutions Per Minute is here. So...
