Hip Hop Album Reviews

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David Banner & 9th Wonder – Death Of A Pop Star

After a horrible release from 9th Wonder and his new recruits, 9th Opus, I really wanted to be happy with this new offering. I really wanted to think “oh, he just put that together real quick” or “oh, he probably saved the ‘real’ production for his new, more official, releases”. Even though his new project [...]

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Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows

Last year longtime Talib Kweli fans were met with a sobering new album from the Brooklyn veteran in the follow up to his and mid-west production staple Hi-Tek’s initial Reflection Eternal album. Kweli supporters were notably taken back with how un-impressive Revolutions Per Minute was and some creeping suspicions that perhaps his best days on [...]

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Zion I – Atomic Clock

We’ve all heard this theme repeated in music, poetry, art, film, novels and other forms of artistic expression: What would you do if your time here on Earth were coming to an end…NOW?! Lox superficially scratched the surface and discussed this in “24 hours to live”, the eccentric surrealist Salvator Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” [...]

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Gangrene – Gutter Water

The last time The Alchemist got up with another emcee for a full length, retail collaboration he and Mobb Deep front man Prodigy issued the rap world a fierce ode to fashioned gangsterism, set to some of the smoothest looped up soul breaks the white guy from Beverly Hills ever chose to tinker with. While [...]

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Slaine – A World With No Skies

One of the elements that is so sorely missing from most of Hip-Hop’s aesthetic nowadays is the true street element and experience. It’s been too long since any one emcee took us burrowing through his specific hell on earth in spectacular fashion. Slaine Carroll has been collecting kudos for a minute now both in his [...]

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EQ – Out The Ashtray Of L.A.

The Hip-Hop climate of L.A. has always been alluring…In the 90′s and the aughties many an artist lavished their video’s with imagery adorned in the excess that pervades the southland en masse. Beautiful women of every flavor, palm trees, sun washed beaches and people from all over the world were about as everyday as the [...]

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9th Wonder – 9th’s Opus

The word “opus” pretty much just means an artist’s musical composition numbered by their movements or broken down parts. This is term generally applies to classical music and in my musical reference it’s always been associated with an avant garde musician, i.e. Beethoven’s Opus Sixty One. But, in a non classical setting opus would come [...]

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Celph Titled & Buckwild – Nineteen Ninety Now

There will be few albums that ever manage to tap into a forgone era as mightily as this new mixture of innately golden era production and hardcore, no holds barred rhyming that is Nineteen Ninety Now. Enlisting the help and sound of a legend in Diggin In The Crates crew member and all-time great Hip-Hop [...]

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Statik Selektah & Termanology – 1982

From the lineage of Gang Starr (Guru and DJ Premier), Eric B and Rakim, Kool G Rap and DJ Polo we have the talented offspring Termanology and Statik Selektah with their strong effort, 1982. With Termanology’s body of work and strength being focused mainly in the mixtape/underground realm as well as Statik Selektah, the arduous [...]

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[PEER REVIEW] The Left (Apollo Brown, Journalist 103, DJ Soko) – Gas Mask

If you missed out on the last installment of peer review, here’s how it goes down: 1. We provide you with a stream for a full album (just released today) 2. You check it out, give it a good listen 3. Submit a well-thought-out review, complete with a score ($0.01 – $20.00) 4. We pick [...]