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Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
3.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 0
Once hailed as one of rap's most literary voices, Aesop Rock fits cleanly into the niche created by the Def Jux camp. Like head honcho El-P, Rock finds comfort behind both the microphone and the mixing board. The two men also share a penchant for decidedly ... full story |
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Trey Songz: Trey Day
3.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 1
After many release date changes, the Prince of VA is back and is more mature than ever before. Trey Songz' sophomore album is not a star studded LP like many others in the music business. Bun B and Dipset's Jim Jones are the only two rappers that have the ... full story |
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Kia Shine: Due Season
2.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 0
All one can truly say is, "WOW," and laugh when listening to Kia Shine's Due Season. It seems that the more new artists come to the forefront of the hip-hop hustle, the more ridiculous and outrageous the songs are. So after seven years of grinding and making ... full story |
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Jagged Edge: Baby Makin' Project
2.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 2
You just can't deny the unique talents of the four vocalists that make up Jagged Edge. Even though this is their sixth studio album that has been leaked to the net one week prior to its release, you know all those JE fans went out and bought the album regardless. ... full story |
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Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds: Playlist
3.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 1
When you speak of legends and music icons in the world of R&B, you have to think of Babyface. For over a decade, Face has sung, written and produced so many number one songs, it's hard to keep count. After a few mediocre attempts at a comeback in the early ... full story |
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Rick Ross: Rise To Power
3.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 1
Rick Ross isn't MIA when it comes to delivering good music on his second album, Rise To Power. It seems Rick's new album has brought a natural evolution rather than a "sophomore jinx." This time around, Ross sets the bar higher and raps on every track like ... full story |
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Chamillionaire: Ultimate Victory
4.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 2
The South has carved a niche in the mainstream that's hard to break. Besides a North Carolina brotherly duo that got more fame for a spat with BET than their music, and the politician-in-rapper's-clothing David Banner, the list of Southern representatives ... full story |
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Plies: The Real Testament
3.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 20
The front cover of Plies' new album, The Real Testament, features him with his right hand raised as if he was taking an oath. The cover is supposed to relay Plies' oath to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, about his experiences in the streets, and ... full story |
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Swizz Beatz: One Man Band Man
2.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 0
When Swizz Beatz released his solo debut One Man Band Man, many hip-hop aficionados were secretly thinking "let the battle of the producers begin." Timbaland, Dre, Alchemist, Marco Polo, K-Salaam and 9th Wonder are all names of producers who are more than ... full story |
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Tupac: Nu Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2 (Evolution: Duets And Remixes)
3.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 1
Hip-hop fans can scream hallelujah; there's finally a decent rap record to cap the summer off with the release of Tupac's Nu Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2 (Evolution: Duets And Remixes). Tupac was more than an MC, he was an icon, and it's unfortunate that many of us ... full story |
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Kanye West: Graduation
4.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 4
When you are in a league of your very own, which Kanye is in, you have every right to be smacking people upside their heads with an atrocious ego. Kanye West should be recognized as the front-runner in hip-hop, regardless of his temper tantrums directed at ... full story |
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T-Hud: Undrafted
3.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 0
There's a saying that those that rap should rap, and those that ball should ball. Pick one or the other talent bestowed upon you by the almighty and enjoy what comes from it.Basketball players for ages have been crossing over and trying to cash in on their ... full story |
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Keith Murray: Rap-Murr-Phobia
3.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 1
When I had the opportunity to interview Redman back in March (see "The Return Of Redman: Got To Stay Gilla"), he waxed nostalgic for an era before the Yung Jocs and Lil Mamas of the world became hip-hop staples -- a time, as he said, when rappers were superheroes: ... full story |
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Killah Priest: The Offering
3.5 out of 5.0 | Comments: 2
With all the disposable rap music being produced lately, Killah Priest's The Offering is definitely a breath of fresh air. The album is a Wu-Tang/Gravediggaz era project, mixed with new school production and concepts.Right off the bat, the intriguing "Intro" ... full story |
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M.I.A.: Kala
4.0 out of 5.0 | Comments: 0
It must be a strange realization for M.I.A., born Maya Arulpragasam, that the very class that she seems to have vehemently chastised on her 2005 debut, Arular, and again on Kala, has now begun to embrace her. Granted, making the transition from cult status, ... full story |
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