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N.E.R.D’s debut album In Search Of has a lot of the tropes that you would find in Pharrell based production – very unique chops driving beats, funky shit, and overall great musicality. For me, this album started off okay – with the ‘mid’ plateauing at Provider. Provider confused me greatly. However after this, I thought
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A relisten – more than 5 years ago was last spin. Chance’s Acid Rap really put him on the mainstream after 10 day and at the time, helped his reputation a bit. I think many forget how polarizing Chance’s voice was – some people thought it was absolutely terrible and some loved it and his
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A relisten in my quest – more than 5 years ago. At Long Last ASAP is an essential album in the grand scheme of rap, and will never be replicated. God damn is it good, and you can really hear the influence of Rocky in so many different artists today. There are NY Rap cuts,
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The man, the myth, the Somebody That I Used to Know. The classic trope of “this MF dropped one classic and disappeared” epitomized. Also, a man named Wally. Gotye. I really went into this album trying to give it a shot past the potential one hit wonder of the classic Gotye song mentioned above. There
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British singer Arlo Parks is a new discovery for me. When I found out she was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy’s, it certainly made a lot of sense A) Why she was nominated and B) Why this didn’t put her on my radar, because I haven’t watched a Grammy’s show since Nam.
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Tyler’s recent albums have flown under my radar for some reason – maybe because I am not the biggest fan of his voice – but regardless of reason, I’ve never gotten around to listening to them. I have always respected him as a musician, as he has become one of the best rapper-producers currently making
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This album was pretty good and has some GoldLink cuts that are quite enjoyable once you move past the Crew phase (which is basically a Brent made song anyways). He has a great voice – but a few things work against him. One, I saw a tweet that you can basically get this type of
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I don’t quite know where to begin this blurb. I’ve landed on – this is not a Jay-Z Linkin Park Collab, not an MGK punk effort, or anything of the like. This is Lil Yachty doing psych rock well. That in itself is a ridiculous statement – madlib esque – but god damn this album
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Ari is on top of the current female R&B artists with only a few people on her level. While this album is not my favorite Ari stuff (I like more PHO EP and the more upbeat songs), it is some really good R&B and her vocals are fucking insane. If you like modern R&B with
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I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Second listen, knew songs. And not simply because of it’s 30 minute length (which by the way, just give me 30-40 minutes of your best. What is the point of dumping so much shit onto one album. I guess if you don’t want people to listen to it front to
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