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BACK IN THE DAY |5/5/92| Gang Starr released their third album, Daily Operation, on EMI Records.

Great Rap Music

Me and Andrew Martin wrote and compiled all of Danny’s loosies and features over at Potholes. Go read/listen. Really hit that lank below

http://potholesinmyblog.com/25-reasons-why-danny-brown-is-the-mvp-of-2012/

sonraw:

Speechless at this record.

i know people like me are suppose to love records like this, using all kinds of hyperbolic adjectives to describe it, but really, it’s unnecessary. the record speaks for itself (and you know the usual suspects will hit their keyboards in creative and boring as shit ways to talk about it b4 the 22nd even happens). I myself have it as one-bee after RAP MUSIC, after about 4 complete listens; AND NOTHING ON HERE IS BETTER THAN CARTOON & CEREAL (not on here because they could not clear the cartoon samples), which in a way speaks to how good this album is, and how talented the TDE roster / collective is. Not since Wu have we as rap fans been blessed with such quality from one team. 

Good Kid Maad City also further cements how rap has been on an incredible run over the past 3 years. it honestly hasn’t been this fun to be a rap fan since i was a teen. all i know is imma buy the deluxe Tuesday and am preparing myself for all the Illmatic, ATLiens/Aquemini, NWA to Death Row comparisons and historinics that will arise.

right now: Kendrick, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs (top3, in order, alive, rapping after 2005)

yamborghini:

Bodega Bamz - Strictly 4 My P.A.P.I.Z. [Download]

Proud of my brothers to say the least. Co-Starring the rest of the fam too A$ton, Ferg, and The Zombies…

while the internets busts its collective nut over Kendrick’s leak, make sure you take some time out from your right-click, double-click @ school or cubicle life to make some times for Bamz full length. dropped last night, shit is official. “Don Francisco” makes me wanna hit up my momma to make some sopes while i drink a lime jarritos… also Al the Chemist gave Bamz one of his shank you in the kidney and watch you bleed out beats, plus much more goodness. hit that lank

so i wrote about SoundBombing turning 15 yrs old for Potholes. Go check an old head hit his cpu keyboard all nostalgic about a time long passed

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BACK IN THE DAY |7/25/95| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony released their second album, E. 1999 Eternal, on Ruthless Records

even though Bone was very popular during my youth, i really wish the hipster-phere rap blog world showed them much of the nostalgic/revisionist love they’ve given to regional 90s southern rap acts. yes, there is a contradiction in that statement, but me not gives fucks. They took (some claim stole) the Good Life’s speed rap, choppin’ style and made it National / Popular; which is something Myka9 (one of the best pure rappers ever to exist), Acey, Peace & Jupitor failed to do for various reasons. Basically Freestyle Fellowship was Impulse, while Bone was Motown in le 60s. Thankfully Bone’s influence can be found in acts like A$AP, Purp, and Danny Brown.

READING MATERIAL:

earlier this month Frank mag released their DOOM curated issue for free. i spent most of two weeks ago reading it, and it’s the best music writing I’ve read in a LONG time. Not only are the history and trajectory of DOOM’s career covered, but DOOM’s artistic process, and how other individuals/artists/hip hoppers were part of developing and documenting that process speak on it. It’s as much about DOOM as it is about how hip hop culture existed into the late 90s and early aughts (even some touches on Hip Hop in the 80s). Though most of the material related to his discography speaks either of only Operation: DOOMsday or Madvilliany, THE WHOLE issue is worth every minute of your time. There is great art within the pages, classic DOOM rap quotes, and Prince Paul, Jeneiro Jarrel, Masta Ace, and DOOM himself all get interviewed. Their is also some nice musings on the use of masks throughout various cultures in history, and the mythology around super heroes and villains in America. The whole issue just feels centered, well thought out, and original… kind of how Wax Poetics use to be.

DOOM, a GOAT