Is Lil’ Kim’s Hard Core album cover the best hip-hop album cover ever? Will Spotify’s purchase of Whosampled.com lead to more artists being sued for sampling and how will that impact art? Is Metro Boomin’s take on contemporary hip-hop albums sounding like compilations because there are tooContinue Reading
“Sunrays” is a meandering slice of transcendent, jazzy hip-hop from Madlib’s five-piece band, Yesterday’s New Quintet. Monk Hughes, Ahmad Miller, Malik Flavors, and Joe McDurfey, and Otis Jackson Jr., (Madlib’s government name) were in the credits, rounding the band out to a full quintet. The instrumental that started with aContinue Reading
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Shungu’s Faith in the Unknown album has dropped as well as the video for his ZEKEULTRA collaboration, “Butterfly.” The artist and producer put together his vision with a collective that included Fly Anakin, Fatima, Pink Siifu, Chester Watson, Liv.e, Navy Blue, Maxo, dreamcastmoe, Goya Gumbani, Ruqqiyah, and ZEKEULTRA. Shungu’s soundContinue Reading