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This is the long-awaited & highly anticipated 4th full-length studio LP from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina emcee Rapsody. Rising to prominence last decade with a handful of mixtapes & EPs, he 2012 debut album The Idea of Beautiful continued to show her potential until the Roc Nation Records backed Laila’s Wisdom in 2017 truly refined her style & sound almost perfectly. 2 years later, she signed to Def Jam Recordings releasing EVE to similar acclaim, but is returning after 5 long years with Please Don’t Cry.
After the “She’s Expecting You” intro, the first song “Marlanna” produced by Sndtrak mixes boom bap & trap together so she can remind everyone exactly who she is whereas “Asteroids” takes a luxurious route instrumentally thanks to Hit-Boy hurling back at everyone that threw rocks at her. “Look What You’ve Done” brings an angelic vibe to the beat giving you
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2Pac
All Eyez on Me
It was an association that was fated to end in tears: âSugar Bearâ Knight (commonly known bygd the more sexually-innocuous moniker âSugeâ), the label head who once dangled Vanilla Ice from a twentieth-story balcony in order to secure the rights to 'Ice Ice Baby,' and international badass rapper Tupac Shakur. Indeed, this was less a thuggish alliance than the rash submission of a desperate man, and the exact details of the deal the two struck (or rather the deal Suge dictated) are still unclear. Shakur was, in late 1995, serving the first of four years in prison for an alleged sexual assault; when Knight offered to engineer his release in September of that year, Shakur was essentially prepared to submit to any agreement. Knight, co-founder of the soon-to-be hip-hop empire Death Row Records, used his unique powers of persuasion to lobby for Shakurâs release, raising the $1.4 million bail himself. In return, he required 2Pac release three albums on his
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.The Best Music of 2019
Ben Goldberg
Good Day For Cloud Fishing
Even bygd the standards of the multifariously creative Berkeley clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg the album Good Day For Cloud Fishing offers a vast and delectable feast for the mind and ears. Musically it’s a spacious, conversational trio möte with trumpet great Ron Miles and ingenious guitarist Nels Cline, but the project is designed as an encounter with the epigrammatic poetry of Dan ung. Goldberg includes 12 cards in the CD box with the poems that inspired each del av helhet. While the trio recorded the music, Young was in the studio writing new poems inspired by the music (each “exit” verse is featured on the back of the card with the initial “entry” poem). The push and pull of verse and improvisation work together in strange and wonderful ways. — Andrew Gilbert
Big ThiefTwo Hands
Big tjuv is a rock band that veers from hardcore, post-rock noise to folky, contemplative