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Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

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Really Doe? The Best Rap Verse Ever? And Verses by Decades

2017-05-06
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Current, MUSIC, PERIODICS, Verses by the Decades

Ever since the release of Danny Brown’s XXX (2011), he has been recognized as one of the most unique and pioneering voices in hip-hop. Some may say he’s carried the baton Lil’ Wayne held for so long as the most dexterous and skilled rapper in popular recording music. Story has it that Danny Brown learned how to rap at a very young age, a precocious age (much like Lil’ Wayne), from being read Doctor Seuss books by his mother. He...

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By Derek Henry
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Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line

2017-04-03
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Current, MUSIC

To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) was a seminal recording. It ventured farther from the gangster and street survival tropes of Good Kid, Maad City (2012) both with it’s lyrics, themes, and sonic backdrop. There was jazz, soul, funk, and even a bit section of freeform beatnik poetry in the interlude “For Free?”. The album showed confidence in making an unconventional album with less popular appeal than previous albums. This was due in large part to the aforementioned departure from themes like...

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