TMIMM: a music blog
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There’s No Music Like Live Music
I love concerts. They allow you to see your favorite artists up close performing your favorite songs by them. Even in my short amount of years on this Earth, I’ve been fortunate to go to 11 concerts/festivals by some of my favorite artists. Anyhoo, let’s get on with the list. (Note: I will rank an…
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Let Me Funk The Style
This is the first installment in my TOP 7 RAP ALBUMS series. The series will feature the albums in chronological order by release date. The Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest. (1991). Backstory: A Tribe Called quest were formed in the late 80s by Kamal Fareed (Stage name: Q-Tip), Malik Taylor (Stage name, Phife…
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Best 80s Rap Album – Runners Up
This album revolutionized the art of rapping for the better. Rakim used rhymes in the middle and end of the bar, instead of just the end and used multisyllabic rhymes. Great examples of this are album highlights: “I Ain’t No Joke” & “Eric B is President”.
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Looking for a style like mine, you can’t find it
The best rap album of the 80s in my opinion is “Criminal Minded” by Boogie Down Productions (1987). To be clear, this is not the best album of the 80s in music, that honor goes to “Thriller”, by Michael Jackson. Now, on with the review.
The Music In My Mind 