Music Reviews tagged with hip-hop
M.I.A. /\/\/\Y/\
After seemingly spending most of the first half of 2010 embroiled in controversy, can provocateuse extraordinaire M.I.A. complete the hat-trick of stellar albums with /\/\/\Y/\?
Joe Rivers actually quite enjoyed typing out all those backslashes...
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III
She's tipped for the top and has Diddy's patronage, but can Janelle Monáe prove that she's the next big thing?
Joe Rivers reviews...
Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here
When once there were Pieces Of A Man, Gil Scott-Heron comes “full circle” with I’m New Here.
Sean Caldwell reviews...
Meth-Ghost-Rae Wu Massacre
Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon rhyming things with Bill Belichick and Cap'n Crunch Cereal over soul samples. Anything else you need to know?
Luke Winkie knows more about mid-90s Hip-Hop than you'd probably think...
Toro Y Moi Causers Of This
Toro Y Moi releases his debut full-length amid two peaks, the popular reign and critical boredom of still-infant subgenre chillwave. Or was that glo-fi? And what about shit-gaze? Seriously, I read an album-review classified as shit-gaze yesterday... Anyway, well after Causers Of This is finished and released, Toro Y Moi has his work cut out for him.
Ryan Pratt mediates...
Eminem Relapse
Yeah, it is average. But Shady's average is way better than everyone elses.
Nate Adams peers into the life of an uninspired serial killer...
Rick Ross Deeper Than Rap
Miami's best beard releases another album. It is exactly what you think it is.
Nate Adams rides around with America's most average rapper...
Ghostface Killah GhostDeini the Great / Fish n Chips
Ghostface's fourth Def Jam release in five years, GhostDeini the Great, falls somewhere between a decent introduction and ho-hum collection of alternate verses and remixes that only occasionally add any depth to the originals. In contrast, the Fish n Chips mixtape shows him in fine form.
Chris Conti reviews...
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Twenty years after it was deemed a commercial failure, Paul's Boutique, second full-length from the Beastie Boys, has proven to be one of the most important albums to emerge in the last century. Now being re-mastered and re-issued in a variety of formats, it's up for discussion. Again.
Sean Caldwell's just chillin' like Bob Dylan...
Clipse Road To Till The Casket Drops
2008 was a tough year for hip-hop. Thankfully, Clipse wrap a small promise of greatness in a self-aggrandizing, mixtape/advertisement end-of-the-year package, and gracefully offer it up for immediate download.
Kevin Walker freely downloads...
