By Kristopher Tondre Music Journalist Artist: Cousin Stizz Album: MONDA Label: None Release Date: July 12, 2016 Website: http://cousinstizz.com/ Losing a friend is tough. It’s a difficult discussion you have with yourself as you wonder why that person, why now and, sometimes, why it wasn’t you. You might find yourself just going through the motions day to day, trying to reclaim some feeling of normalcy while coming to terms with […]
By Kristopher Tondre Music Reviewer Maybe it’s just me, but it seemed like a bit of a slow summer as far as new music goes in the rap world. Aside from Gucci Mane coming home, and the slew of rappers collaborating with him just to come across as “cool” if only for the moment, there haven’t been many ground breaking, leave-me-in-awe albums released. However, dig a little deeper into the […]
By Kristopher Tondre Music Journalist Artist: BADBADNOTGOOD Album: IV Label: Innovative Leisure Release Date: Jul. 8, 2016 Website: http://badbadnotgood.com/ Growing up, my mom always had an eclectic musical taste. I remember going to school in her old Chevy Astro while listening to cassette tapes of Swahili hymns, church music or the top 40 stations that we’d turn to on the radio dial. As time progressed, her selection of songs and albums […]
By Kristopher Tondre Music Reviewer Artist: Marcellus Juvann Album: The Great Escape Label: None Release: June 24, 2016 Website: https://soundcloud.com/c3lldope The very same young man who “went to Hell to smack the Devil,” and “had a stare off with Medusa” now returns to prove to listeners old and new alike that he’s “Been On” with his latest release. Marcellus Juvann delivers with the second single off his upcoming sophomore effort, The […]
By Kristopher Tondre Music Journalist I’ve been an avid listener of ScHoolboy Q since I began following the Top Dawg conglomerate and got my hands on a copy of his Habits & Contradictions album back in 2012. With the release of his major debut album two years later, Oxymoron, I went and saw ScHoolboy Q perform live as part of the accompanying tour used to promote the project. Now, with the […]
By Kristopher Tondre Music Journalist Artist: Hak Album: June Label: XL Recordings Release: June 21, 2016 Website: http://www.hak.center/ Thank you Wiki. No, not the online encyclopedia that teachers discouraged students from using for research in grade school, but the young rapper who got Hak into making music. From my understanding, Hak was never interested in being a rapper or pursuing anything to do with music. That was until Wiki, with whom […]
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