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[Review] Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday

When Nicki Minaj out-best rap hard hitters Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rick Ross on “Monster” (which appears not on Pink Friday but on West's MBDTF), that stand-out performance alone had hip-hop heads and critics rank Minaj’s debut album Pink Friday as a serious contender for album of the year. And it wasn’t because she was mouse in a room full of elephants... CONTINUE READING...

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[Review] The Foreign Exchange – Authenticity

K-Lis

Since the success of their landmark hip-hop album Connected back in ’04, mountains have moved for Phonte and Nicolay of The Foreign Exchange: they have released two more albums (Authenticity being their third and mostly highly anticipated), the Dutch beatmaster Nicolay has moved to North Carolina, they have established their own label, banked a Grammy nomination, and evolved from a peripheral hip-hop entity into a full fledged accolade machine up to their knees in R&B crossover water. CONTINUE READING

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[Review] Tyler, The Creator – Bastard

K-Lis

As the producer and de facto leader of the ten member OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) from Southern California, Tyler, The Creator, creates things. At 19 years old ("old as fuck," according to him) he has created the Odd Future (OF) collective, he has created what Pitchfork has dubbed the "Swag Generation" movement, and he has created a whole whack of profane and provocative imagery --mostly videos, photographs and artwork--that define the group's post modern and anarchist protest of "order." But mostly, he creates music. This time an album called Bastard. CONTINUE READING

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[Review] Kanye West and The VMA Hangover

K-Lis

"Keeping it real with others is what's really real!" -Cormega

Watching the VMA's is like night of drunken debauchery out on the town. You see a lot of people, hear a lot of loud music, and wake up the next morning with a collection of vague memories to share with your friends like souvenir tchotchkes. Sometimes, if you're lucky, those new memories might even distract you long enough to soothe the brutal hangover you now sport. Now that the fun is over and I'm left nursing my VMA hangover, a question remains: was the experience I gained worth it? Continue Reading

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[Audio x Review] Big Boi is Still an Outkast from Sir Lucious to “Lookin 4 Ya (Jedi Remix)”

K-Lis

It's been four years since Big Boi and Andre 3000 dropped the certified platinum Idlewild, with still no word of a new album. But Outkast lives ... in Sir Lucious. After an announcement in 2007 of an Outkast hiatus to pursue respective solo work, Big Boi cooked up a new take on Atlanta-based rap in Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Summer, 2010, Def Jam) with the likes of Lil Jon, George Clinton, Yelawolf, and B.o.B among others. Continue Reading

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