Joey Bada$$, ‘Waves’

“Waves,” Joey Bada$$ LIGHT anything: beer, jazz, versions of any kind of junkfood snack, all tend to be terrible. Hip-hop is equally plagued with this somewhat unnoticed truth, but Joey Continue reading →

On Frank Ocean and ‘Channel Orange’

I WROTE HERE briefly about Frank Ocean’s improbable rise from the ranks of obscurity to quick stardom on the strength of his debut alternative R&B mixtape Nostalgia Ultra, his odd circumstance of Continue reading →

The Roots, ‘Do You Want More?!!!??!’

THE ROOTS’ DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??! was an epiphany in the consciousness of hip-hop; a quiet-at-first, sophomore slingshot — as opposed to a slump — operating as “something other than.” Continue reading →

ASAP Rocky and This New Wave

Photo Credit: Billboard “Peso,” ASAP Rocky LAST YEAR MAY MARK a moment of pivot; where everything changes deep within the subculture: implying a possible shift in the ethos of what comprised the corps Continue reading →

Kanye West ‘Power’ Scarf

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D.J. Honda feat. Jeru the Damaja, ‘El Presidente’

D.J. HONDA’S three mid-’90s collaborative albums — h, h II, h III — are among the best of original underground and independent hip-hop compilations produced in that era. They also Continue reading →

Clams Casino, ‘Gorilla’

Photo Credit: FACT Clams Casino, “Gorilla” Feel like there’s some Miles Davis-type fusion jazz going on in this track somewhere. It’s more heavily slow and psychedelic than Clams’ collabos, groovy, Continue reading →

‘Stop Killing My Generation’

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