Ab-Soul These Days… album stream Ab-Soul “Closure” Ab-Soul “Stigmata” – Ab-Soul of Black Hippy/TDE crew recent release These Days… is a balanced album. It has a good mixture of “turn up”, electronica, Trip hop, downtempo, jazzy, reverb, blunted beats with off the cuff braggadocio tempered with introspective, psychedelic, and spoken word lyrics. Listening to the album from beginning to end it feels like rapper Ab-Soul is having a conversation and answering with a “These days…” and goes on to unleash his stories, thoughts, …
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Beyond the hood? Detroit Techno – Article exploring the relationship of Techno, dance music and its inner city roots. [fiar] A Noisey Film – The Police vs Grime Music Black British musical identity is being erased by culture-less dance music – Writer Kele Okereke thoughts on the social-political-economic issues happening in the UK music scene. [Noisey] Meanwhile, 6th and Mission – San Francisco based artist Wendy McNaughton illustrates her story of the changing landscape of the neighborhood around 6th & Mission street. …
– The Roots recently released another concept album And Then You Shoot Your Cousin following the previous concept album 2011’s Undun. The concept of this new album is made up of characters, stories, satirical commentary on violence in Hip-Hop and American society in general. In an interview with Sway, Questlove and Black Thought reveal the name of the album And Then You Shoot Cousin was inspired by a line from a KRS One song. MC’s more worried about their financial backin’ Steady packin a gat as if …
With the World Cup going on in Brazil, for those not caught up by football (soccer) fever it’s a good time to revisit DJ/producer Diplo and his label Mad Decent’s 2008 documentary Favela On Blast. The documentary is about the music sub-culture in the city of Rio de Janeiro (in the poor neighborhoods, the favelas) called Baile Funk or Funk Carioca: a bass heavy sound with electro drum beats, reminiscent of Miami bass and electro funk of artists like MC …
Bad Rap, a documentary about Asian American rappers had a successful crowd funded campaign, exceeding their $25,000 goal by the end of their campaign this past week. As promotions for the documentary and the rappers involved, the director/producers Salima Koroma and Jaeki Cho along with three of the four central rappers from the documentary: Awkwafina, Lyricks, and Reksitzzy have been doing shows and interviews this past week. They’ve also had an interview on Hot 97, with DJ Cipha Sounds, talking about the …
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