Tag: NAS
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The Most Random Analogy Ever (feat. The 2015 Broncos)
There is always this weird connection between beats and lyrics in hip-hop that I couldn’t quite put into words for a long time. This sprung up again after I re-listened to Nas’s albums with Hit-Boy and I realised how important it is to have great beats on an album. Like, Nas will always be Nas…
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My Hottest Music Takes
These are a few takes that I have about music that are too short to make into an actual full-length article. Enjoy! Playboi Carti is Better as a “Sellout” Every once in a while, I re-listen to albums that had crazy hype but fell short (cinephiles call it “Phantom Menaceing” for movies: believing a movie…
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‘Ready to Die’ at 30
Brooklyn is home to some of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. JAY-Z, Jeru the Damaja, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Lil Kim, Fabulous, Your Old Droog, Papoose, Joey Bada$$, and Pop Smoke. But, before all of them, there was one kid out of Bedford Stuyvesant with a deep voice and a lot of talent.…
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‘Illmatic’ at 30
Years ago, there was a conversation about albums that can base the entire art form of hip-hop around it if it disappeared. There were many albums in contention: Run-DMC’s self-titled, The Low End Theory, Paul’s Boutique, Follow The Leader, Good Kid m.a.a.d City, Enter the Wu-Tang, The College Dropout. But, with all of these different…
The Music In My Mind 