SkyBlew & SublimeCloud – Destined: The [R]Evolution (Album Review)
The life and times of SkyBlew have never been easy. As a child, the illustrative emcee born Mario Farrow was shuffled to and fro from family and friends to foster and adoption homes, sometimes for the...
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Hip Hop Album Reviews, Week Ending Aug. 11, 2017
Is it a surprise to anyone that the two best albums of the week are completely independent, meaning not released by a label or outfit outside of the artist’s own camp, and also meaning these artists...
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Hip Hop Album Reviews, Week Ending Aug. 18, 2017
New albums by Otis Reed, Declaime and Esh are as mind-expanding as anything we’ve seen so far this year. Otis Reed returns as a King and a G in his fourth LP, the decorated Declaime is still a young...
View ArticleVel The Wonder –‘Joyride’ (Album Review)
It would be in their best interest if rappers placed more importance on wide-reaching social issues of the day over their own personality and brand, but the artist that can do both at the same time is...
View ArticleMega Ran –‘Extra Credit’ (Album Review)
Mega Ran, the emcee with a teaching and video game-loving background, formerly known simply as Random, has a discography that’s not only quite sizable by now but very substantial as well, offering...
View Article¡MAYDAY! –‘Search Party’ (Album Review)
The Mayday men of Strange Music can’t celebrate the release of their sixth studio album Search Party in their native Miami, as scorned mother nature has dispatched Hurricane Irma to unleash fury upon...
View ArticleOpen Mike Eagle –‘Brick Body Kids Still Daydream’ (Album Review)
Unapologetic art rapper of dark comedy, the very open Michael Eagle II, can make any song or album extraordinary just with his lyrics, his complex socially meaningful lyrics that do get straight to the...
View ArticleHoodie Allen –‘The Hype’ (Album Review)
Long Island rapper Hoodie Allen is gonna need that hoodie more so than ever before because he’s just been exposed and he’s getting colder. His new album, The Hype, recalls the same topics and some of...
View ArticleRuby Ibarra –‘Circa91’ (Album Review)
Asian American participation in hip-hop takes stronger hold as emcee Ruby Ibarra drops her debut LP, Circa91, on Beatrock Music. Having released her debut mixtape in 2012 (the Kay Slay-hosted Lost in...
View ArticleSpose –‘Humans’ (Album Review)
Maine-bred emcee Spose (Ryan Peters) claims to have made Humans, his third album of 2017, in twenty-four hours but the planning behind it probably took much longer. An exhibition that (on the surface...
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