Category: Reviews
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Sterling Simms – Mary & Molly | Mixtape Review
Sterling Simms is for grown folks; adults only. The Philadelphia born R&B singer’s latest mixtape, Mary & Molly, is the soundtrack to the fast lane. Offering up a startling, wide-eyed peek into the steamy and sometimes scary world of fame, Mary & Molly feels like a sex-crazed haze, a raunchy emotional stupor fueled by the…
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Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred | Album Review
A Dream Deferred is hip-hop in its purest form. One of this year’s most refined releases, the album plays like an autobiographical hopscotch. Jumping back and forth between subject matters and personal experiences, Skyzoo is at his best when dropping knowledge on those more interested in hearing the real instead of imagining the fake.
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Blu x Exile – Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them | Album Review
In 2007, West Coast emcee Blu and producer Exile created what many consider to be a new-age classic Hip-Hop album in the form of Below The Heavens. Positioning a then newbie Blu and an already experienced Exile into the underground limelight as a pairing destined for greatness, since that release the two have gone to release…
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Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream | Album Review
Being that he’s one of the few true visionaries left in today’s over saturated music industry, it’s fair to say [cliche’s aside] that Miguel is a breath of fresh air as far as R&B mainstays are concerned. Not one to follow trends, he sets his own rules. While chart-chasing R&B seems to be heading more…
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Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 | Album Review
As complex as they come, both lyrically and intellectually, Lupe Fiasco is one of the few true voices of the people. With a style and rap blueprint similar to that of Nas, his rhyme schemes, subject matters, and overall delivery are what makes him such a good emcee. Built upon respect, and driven by his…
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Rapsody – The Idea of Beautiful | Album Review
The Idea of Beautiful. You could write an entire essay on such an intriguing matter. Snow Hill, North Carolina native Rapsody did write an essay on the topic but did it in the musical form. In her debut LP, Rap decided to take all that she learned from her previous three projects in which she…
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YADi – Banana Mix | Mixtape Review + Free Download
Thirty minutes of audio-travel through Algeria up to Scandinavia in 11 tracks? That would be with singer YADi’s newly released Banana mixtape.
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G.O.O.D Music – Cruel Summer | Album Review
Whilst the Maybach Music Group ran roughshot over the three months of inconsistent summer weather, the enigmatic powerhouse collective known as G.O.O.D Music was quietly creating a buzz akin to a tropical hurricane. News of the imprint’s joint album Cruel Summer began to surface as the group’s leader, Kanye West, spent this past summer adding…
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Selah Sue – 'Selah Sue' | Album Review
A soulful musician and songwriter with a distinctive voice, built with obvious reggae influences in articulation and phrasing, Selah Sue offers her soulful, jazz-infused debut album. The self-titled LP went multi-platinum in her native country Belgium and peaked in the top ten of the Dutch and French albums chart, where she has been elevated as…