Album Review/Preview: Common-Finding Forever

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Common is back with the highly anticipated new album “Finding Forever”. The official first track off the album the “Intro” is a dreamy, old school sounding track with no lyrics that serves to break down your defenses and expectations about what is [...]

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T.I. vs. T.I.P review

 
Shot at 2007-07-03
In Rap, Inner War Can Be a Trap
By KELEFA SANNEH from the NYTimes.com posted on July 3, 2007
T. I. is hardly the first successful rapper to come down with split-personality disorder. Eminem made millions by pitting the tormented Marshall Mathers against the mischievous Slim Shady. Tupac Shakur morphed into Makaveli when he made [...]

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Album Review/Preview: R. Kelly- Double Up

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R. Kelly starts off his new album with “The Champ” and it is clear that he has a lot of anger and aggression he is trying to get off his chest. He has been through a lot of drama and fallen in [...]

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Bobby Valentino “Special Occasion” Album Preview/Review

Click here to hear the full album preview of Bobby Valentino- Special Occasion (From 5/7 to 5/21)
Right from the intro, I’m in love! I will admit from the jump, I love Bobby Valentino. As a matter of fact, Bobby V is the reason why I started blogging on this site. I didn’t like thehonorable always dogging [...]

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Album Review/Preview: Ne-Yo “Because of You”

 
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The album starts out with the song, “Because of You”. Ne-Yo ironically channels Michael Jackson to sing about a subject I’m sure we all can agree MJ has no idea about: an addiction to sex. lol. This song is making some waves [...]

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Nas- “Hip Hop is Dead” (More than Just an) Album Review

 
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With this album, Nas had to prove that his declaration that “Hip Hop is Dead” is not just a clever marketing ploy to stir up controversy to sell more records. One can’t make such a bold statement without having the basis to back [...]

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“Official Thesis”- Kingdom Come…

Ahem…So as I prepare “My Thesis” on Iceberg Slim’s latest effort, “Kingdom Come,” I feel a strange air come over me. I don’t know what it is exactly. All I know is that something about this cd, something about Jay’s legacy thus far…something about his appeal to the masses almost charges me to be on [...]

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