Posted by Dave on January 18, 2013 · 2 Comments
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any hip-hop on this site. Honestly, coming up with good hip-hop is hard, so many people think they can do it because they don’t really have to hit any [...]
Category: Hip-hop, hypetree, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rap, Vyne List · Tags: academic, Animal House, beats, cerebral, creative, Cruel Winter, equation, flow, Gone in December, grimey, hip hop, interpreter, Judas, lyrics, master, musician, My Brother & Mii, net, passionate, poet, poetry, rap, rapper, sexy, T*Merk, The Cage, vivid
Posted by Dave on December 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
We live in a day where overproducing music is the norm. Any band or artist you listen to has probably been washed, tightened up, and autotuned to some extent, if not gratuitously so like in some [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: autotune, diamond, emotive, godfathers, gritty, hip hop, indie, indie rock, Joy Division, love, Once Mine, overproduced, pop, pop rock, Punk, rough, Superchunk, talent, The Black Keys, The Rachels, The Strokes, underproduced, youtube
Posted by Dave on October 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
When was the last time France invaded a country? Napoleon did it, but I think the French gave up on world conquest after that. It’s a shame too (minus the horrible bloody wars; it’s good they [...]
Category: Dance, Electronic, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rock · Tags: Bad Porn Movie Trax, dance rock, England, Europe, FIFA, food, France, hard rock, hip hop, Loco Con Da Frenchy Talkin, My Name is Stain, overseas, party dress, Shaka Ponk, Skunk Anansie, sold out, steel toed boots, steppin, The Geeks and the Jerkin Socks
Posted by Dave on September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
What’s happening in the Midwest these days? It seems like there’s a hip-hop revolution out there. We all know of the big names to come out of Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit, but hip-hop’s reach and [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: Anything, chicago, Death of a Beatmaker, Detroit, emcee, Enemy/Inner Me, EP, Flying Lotus, heartland, hip hop, Kanye, Klassic, Lupe Fiasco, Midwest, Milwaukee, R&B, St. Louis, synth
Posted by Dave on August 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I don’t have a lot of confidence in today’s hip-hop. The mainstream is full of pretenders with no flow, weak beats, and ghost-written lyrics. The underground, though, helps [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rap · Tags: beats, confidence, Deejay Zelaya, emcee, EP, faith, flow, For the Love, ghost-written, hip hop, ill, Immortal Technique, life, lyrics, mainstream, Nas, political, pretenders, rap, secret, similarities, Soul Gems EP, street culture, Technique, underground, We Ain't Goin' Out
Posted by Dave on June 28, 2012 · 1 Comment
There aren’t enough women in hip-hop. Considering that hip-hop was born from the adversity one experiences living in the slums of the inner city, often we only hear the male artist perspective. We are missing an [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: Ace Reign, adversity, beats, emcee, flow, Grind or Die, hip hop, inner city, lyrics, male, perseverance, perspective, production, slums, stories, style, tracks, women, women in hip-hop
Posted by Dave on June 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
I am honestly shocked with how bad rap is on the radio and in the mainstream. Not a week ago I went to grab some lunch with my brother and we lamented at the state of [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: beats, cliche, hip hop, Iller, lament, lyrics, mainstream, nasty, production, rap, set, shocked, The High Life, We Came to Rock
Posted by Dave on June 18, 2012 · 1 Comment
Micky RedEyez has something I wish all mainstream rappers had, real good flow. A lot of rap pretenders today speak slow and grumble out weak rhymes, and it’s really upsetting. Micky RedEyez actually has good flow, [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: EP, flow, hip hop, hoes, mainstream, Micky, Micky RedEyez, mixtape, rapper, The Micky RedEyez Experiment, This is for You
Posted by Dave on June 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
You can’t find good new hip-hop on the radio nowadays. Best place to go is the underground, where mixtapes and freestyle reign supreme. Straight out of the underground come The Killbots, slaying the opposition with their [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: beats, flow, freestyle, Hassassins, hip hop, mixtape, music, new, Say Hello to the Killbots, stylo, The Killbots, underground
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