Category: Reviews
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Kendrick Lamar – good kid m.A.A.d. city | Album Review
Eagerly anticipated, hyped up to the max, and with the buzz of a thousand hornets, good kid m.A.A.d. city is the major label debut album from Compton’s own Kendrick Lamar. Without doubt the most discussed project of recent years, hip-hop aficionados, frat boys, and industry insiders have set the internet ablaze the past few months…
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Madlib Medicine Show London f/ DOOM, Freddie Gibbs, J Rocc, Kutmah | Review
October 12th saw a gig tipped as “Hip-Hop show of the decade” take place in London, featuring the two components of critically acclaimed duo Madvillain – masked maniac rapper DOOM and the extremely talented producer Madlib – supported by a number of heavyweights and up and coming artists from both sides of the pond, including…
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Brandy – Two Eleven (Deluxe) | Album Review
Early on lauded as one of the most popular artists in her genre and still one of the most celebrated and emulated, Brandy returns triumphantly with her sixth studio album Two Eleven, to once again stand in the lane she carved into R&B music.
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'Looper' brings completely fresh approach to time travel | Film Review
Time travel has always been a fascinating subject in popular culture. It is notoriously hard to make a time travel movie whilst keeping an eye on all the various paradoxes that will undoubtedly appear. Somewhere around the ’80s two seminal pieces of film making changed all that – The Terminator and Back To The Future.…
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist | Album Review
Macklemore arguably carried the most mystery out of all the rappers highlighted in XXL magazine’s 2012 Freshman campaign, but with a quietly building back-catalog of mixtapes and singles to his credit, the 29 year old Seattle native had become a hit with independent blogs and radio stations for his now established mature, soulful productions and…
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Machine Gun Kelly – Lace Up | Album Review
An unlikely hero amongst the people, Machine Gun Kelly is the Cleveland City representer who went from sleeping on couches down on his luck to inspiring a generation of youths with his reality check rhymes and tales of hope. Signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy label, MGK is one of the premiering artists who are a…
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Vivian Green – The Green Room | Album Review
Vivian Green loves love. And she’s happy about it. The Philly singer/songwriter, most known for her melancholy hits “Emotional Rollercoaster” and “Gotta Go, Gotta Leave,” releases her fourth album (her second for eOne Music), The Green Room, bubbling with the upside of relationships.
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Murs x Fashawn – This Generation | Album Review
Taking a look at today’s generation through the eyes of two emcees who sit at opposite ends of the age scale, This Generation is a strategically structured LP that looks at the good, the bad, and everything else in between. The project sees Murs, founder of the Paid Dues Festival, team up with 23-year-old Fashawn…