March 2012
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New Mixtape - Drank and Dank: Dripped Up
Ascendant hip-hop blog Drank and Dank has a rather striking aesthetic: lurid, fluorescent green and purple text splotched on a sloppily-tiled background that reads, what else, “DRANK AND DANK,” in all caps.
But even if their design is closer to a spliff-rolling 14-year-old’s Geocities page than the subtle black-and-white of Ruby Hornet, dudes know how to bring the goods: their...
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This is a Thing - TDE and Black Hippy Ink Deal...
Sometimes I worry that this is more a Black Hippy fan blog than an actual hip-hop blog. How many steps away from Black Hippy fanfic am I really?
Top Dawg Entertainment Founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith has announced that future albums by L.A. crew Black Hippy - Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock - will be released jointly through TDE and Interscope. Lamar’s...
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New Album - Ski Beatz: 24 Hour Karate School...
NC producer Ski Beatz - sometimes just Ski - has been in the game seemingly forever. Though his airy, retro-chic productions are responsible for launching the careers of both Curren$y and DC mainstay Tabi Bonney - who I honestly forgot about until I saw him on this album’s tracklist - Ski’s been busy since the early ’90s, when he was producing for none other than S. Carter...
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Listen Up - Roc Marciano: Poltergeist
Roc Marciano’s a scary dude. And not “take your shit” scary: Marci’s straight-up “haunt the shit out of you” scary. At his best, he’s a weed-head ghost, lacing his blunts with rat poison. The Long Island MC has a voice that cuts like a dagger, and a gift for vivid, bone-chilling wordplay. On last year’s Greneberg, he collaborated...
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New Mixtape - Big K.R.I.T.: 4evaNaDay
The home-cooked Mississippi rapper/producer extraordinaire dropped his new mixtape, 4evaNaDay, this morning. K.R.I.T. doesn’t produce new material at the same alarming rate as former tourmate Curren$y, but, considering that all - all! - of his material is self-produced, that he puts out at least one excellent mixtape a year is truly impressive. This one’s not only self-produced but...
