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AUDIO |“Stairway To Heaven” @TheHomieAlexAff
I think one of the things that indie hip-hop is missing is story telling. There are some artists that can do it really well but the majority of indie artists are telling me how much money they make to...
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AUDIO |“All My Life” @MarkEdmond954
Making it as an indie hip-hop artist has got to be one of the hardest things to do in life. There are so many artists out there that it seems nearly impossible for one person to break through. Hard...
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AUDIO |“Gods Bleed” @itsmacntaj
When I’m listening to emails it takes a LOT to impress me for an artist I’ve never heard from before. I get a lot of emails a day and I try to listen to all of them when I get time to blog. Most days...
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AUDIO |“Ten Four” @MarcusJ_Foo
Life is difficult. As a kid you don’t realize how much harder it is to be an adult because you’re too busy wishing that you were grown up so you could do adult things. Then when you get old enough you...
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AUDIO |“Red Light” @ItsANewJae
When you’re young and having fun, sometimes that’s all there is to life. You’re just out looking to hookup with hot people your age and don’t want commitment. We’ve all been there at some point and...
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AUDIO |“She Gettin To The Money” @DapaDon
To some men, there’s nothing sexier than a woman who earns her own living. Hip-hop has always been enamored with this idea of “boss women” and those who get to it; whether is a stripper, a career...
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VIDEO |“Winning” @CharlesJenkins7
Remember when Charlie Sheen had everyone saying “winning” a couple years ago? That was a fun time for a whole month. There have been plenty of times that you felt like you weren’t winning and wanted...
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AUDIO |“Black Diamonds” @JahshuaSmith @AdamReverie @JamesGardin @RedPillRap
Just wake up in the morning and turn on the news. Anymore you’re looking at a story of a young black man being killed by the police or police brutality being enforced on a crowd of black people. This...
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AUDIO |“Sideways” @DecentAtBestNW
The weekend is approaching. Sometimes there’s nothing better than heading out on a Friday night after a long week of work, throwing back some drinks, and just dancing to the band/DJ playing all of...
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AUDIO |“Better Man” @FoolBoyMarley
As a guy, let me go ahead and get this out there: we’re idiots. We hurt women we love and get mad when they don’t want to forgive us for our stupidity. Sometimes you have to look yourself in the...
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AUDIO |“You Remind Me” @TheMastermind26
Now that the summer heat has officially hit everywhere, all of the summer tracks are starting to come out. Yes, it doesn’t get miserably hot in the midwest until about now. If you can’t take a trip to...
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AUDIO |“Camry’s” @TiaYesMore
When you hear music from California you’re used to hearing a couple of styles, hyphy and gangster stuff. TDE have done a good job of switching that up as did Dom Kennedy but for the most part, hyphy...
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AUDIO |“I’m Sayin’ Tho” @SheIsBaeGod @Sbvce
Genre bending is becoming the norm in the hip-hop world anymore. You have singers who give us bars for verses then you have rappers who want to sing. The line between what is hip-hop and what is...
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AUDIO |“The Story Of A King” @FliBoiMV
We see kings as miserable, big, fat white people in the movies and television. Often times that’s what they were in the early centuries but there are also the Kings that came from Africa as well....
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EP |“Young Fel” @FellyTheKid
It can take an artist so long to find their own lane and sound. Remember hearing Wiz Khalifa rapping over EDM beats in like 2007? Then you heard a more polished sound coming from him just two years...
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AUDIO |“Take Me To Church” @FairPlay_2333
I was wondering when someone was going to sample Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” and flip it for a hip-hop song. The soulful, Irish ballad from 2014 has now been flipped by producer LawBeatz for a...
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AUDIO |“Stunt Now” @CoreyLee610 @808Trel
When an artist and producer build chemistry together you can tell after a while that it’s talent. Just think about all the dope relationships hip-hop has created with people by them working together....
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AUDIO |“3200 East Freestyle” @adrianblessktda
It always brings joy to my heart when I see some of my favorite artists dropping new music. It makes me even happier when they send it to my email to ask my thoughts on it before it drops. I’ve known...
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AUDIO |“Big Dreams” @KrisTru803
First of all, I have to shout out Tasha over at She Bloggin’ for allowing me to be on her Tastemaker Tuesday’s series yesterday. I love getting to help artists with honest feedback and that’s what I...
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AUDIO |“Incandescent” @allenpoe_ @teckzilla108 @hannifresh
The nostalgic/classic sound of hip-hop will forever live one. Remember when people said that hip-hop was dead like ten years ago? Lyrical hip-hop will always prevail but every music genre goes in...
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