Archive for the 'Hip-Hop' Category

T-Pain - Epiphany [2007]

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

This guy (along with every other new rapper/r&b artist–I’m looking at you Acorn and 50!) are totally destroying rap music. Doesn’t anyone have ANYTHING of any substance to say anymore? How many songs can we have about bling, and getting your drink on with your shorty at the bar or the club???? What happened to […]

M.I.A. - Kala [2007]

Friday, October 10th, 2008

M.I.A.’s (Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) amazing debut album, Arular, garnered many dedicated fans. One of them just happened to be mega-producer Timbaland. He was so enthusiastic, in fact, that he wanted to work with her for her sophomore release. Of course Maya obliged and she even cried tears of happiness. But before she could begin collaborating […]

Jay-Z - Collision Course [2004]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

If you like Jay-Z remixes, check out DJ Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album,” which mixes Jay-Z’s the Black Album with the Beatles’ White Album. It’s fantastic. “Izzo/In The End” is good here, as is “Points of Authority/99 Problems/In The End,” but the rest is uneven. “The Black Album” was a hip-hop masterpiece, and Jay-Z is […]

T.I. - T.I. vs T.I.P. [2007]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I was introduced to TI when I saw the videos for “24s” and “Never Scared”. “24s” was the 1st single for his upcoming CD “Trap Muzik” and “Never Scared” was the debut single from Bonecrusher and the song featured Killer Mike and TI. Both tracks were pretty good but since that was my 1st introduction […]

Jay-Z - The Black Album [2003]

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

December 4th - This is an incredible track, Jay has his mother Gloria Carter on it describing how when she gave birth to Jay, he didn’t give her any pain. This track is very personal. Jay talks about how after his mother and father broke up, that’s when his life took a turn. He took […]