Monthly Archives: April 2011

ALBUM REVIEW: Curren$y x Alchemist – Covert Coup

Posted on April 23, 2011 by JoeyMC

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “I’m a trill mothafucka after all,” Curren$y spits as if it had been largely forgotten on “BBS,” the opening track of his free 420 Alchemist collaboration Covert Coup. After the success of his … Continue reading →

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ALBUM REVIEW: KD – G-Fluid

Posted on April 21, 2011 by JoeyMC

Seu browser não suporta iframes. The late April sun would have you believe it’s summer already, and the urge to put away the Northface and rock nothing but shorts and basketball jerseys until mid-September is great. But in the back … Continue reading →

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ALBUM REVIEW: Thadwick Tristen Trevor III & Swan Coltrane – Adventures in a Helluvastate

Posted on April 17, 2011 by JoeyMC

Seu browser não suporta iframes. Extra hella lateness. Late March’s release of Adventures in a Helluvastate (get it above), the collaboration of State of the Artist‘s TH and Helladope‘s Tay Sean, has been receiving consistent burn but until now has … Continue reading →

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ALBUM REVIEW: Rockwell Powers & Ill Pill – Kids in the Back 2

Posted on April 16, 2011 by JoeyMC

Seu browser não suporta iframes. Tonight is one to celebrate endings and beginnings. Over at Chop Suey is D.Black’s Curtain Call retirement party, an occasion I wrote about extensively here. Black, one of the more important mainstays in the Seattle … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Figure How To… : Bambu – “Something”

Posted on April 11, 2011 by JoeyMC

Hiphop’s attitude towards domestic violence is uneasy at best, ambivalent in general, and abhorrent when not taken lightly. “Slapping a hoe” is a genre norm for macks and playas of all kinds, one seen by those more removed from the … Continue reading →

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CONCERT REVIEW: Killer Mike, Pac Div, and Young Dro at the Crocodile

Posted on April 4, 2011 by JoeyMC

“Even though there aren’t many of y’all here, we’re still gonna give 110 percent!” De facto headliner Pac Div‘s earnest attempt to enliven a paltry and catatonic crowd last night for the Grind N Hustle Tour’s stop at the Croc … Continue reading →

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