Feb 9th
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| In the early 1990’s, Los Angeles’ rap scene was blowing up, bringing to the national stage the brash, violent, and powerful music known as gangsta rap, and earning the left coast the distinction as the wildest cats around. But Cali was more than guns, women, and chaos. Taking a more subtle approach was a new [...] |
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1 day, 20 hours ago. Jan 26th
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| I’m always on the search for Hip Hop from different locales and one scene I keep coming back to is from the Netherlands. Yup, Holland has a dedicated Hip Hop scene, which features artists rhyming both in Dutch and in English, along with some very musical producers, the most notable one on this side of [...] |
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| 15 days ago. Jan 12th
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| I have a thing for unpredictable albums, listens, which can shock and amaze in their sounds and moods, and artists that always keeps you guessing with their every step, and P.O.S. is quite good at that. Coming out of the Minnesota cold, the artist born Stefon Alexander originally got his start in punk rock acts [...] |
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| 29 days ago. Dec 22nd
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| Before we get into this edition of KN’s Forgotten Classics, I feel like I need to give you a bit of a heads up, because this record is a wild one. New Kingdom is the duo of Nosaj the Great and Sebastian; two New York musicians greatly inspired by Hip Hop, funk, rock and psychedelia, with [...] |
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| 1 month, 20 days ago. Dec 1st
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| “I try and confront H.E.R., but I just freeze / I want H.E.R…but does she want me?”Danny Swain or Danny!, is one of the most underrated and talented figures operating in Hip Hop right now. Originally from South Carolina, the producer and emcee has a storied history when it comes to making music, right from [...] |
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| 2 months, 11 days ago. Nov 17th
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| After all these years, it still boggles my mind that Da Bush Babees never took off. The trio of Y-Tee, Mr. Man, and Lee Majors (also known as Babe-B-Face Kaos) all hailed from the Caribbean (Mr. Man and Lee Majors born in Trinidad and Y-Tee from Jamaica) but banded together in Brooklyn in the early [...] |
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| 2 months, 25 days ago. Nov 3rd
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| “I am the stone that the builder refused, I am the visual / The inspiration, that made the lady sing the blues…”Sounds familiar? Those are the opening lines to intro of the popular Adult Swim series, The Boondocks, an original rap contributed to the show by Washington D.C. artist Gabriel Benn, also known as Asheru. [...] |
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