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2 Dash Tone and Audio Games: “My Sun” Download

Even with the Atlantic Ocean between them, Parisian based Harlemite 2 Dash Tones and Queens-by-way-of Rochester producer Audio Games cannot be stopped. The partners in crime have linked up for…

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Review: Trae Tha Truth – “I Don’t Like Freestyle”

Chicago Drill Music differs predominantly from its Southern Trap predecessor by virtue of the darker, more menacing tone it takes. Whereas Trap is all energy and flair on the track,…

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Review: Calez – “Shouts Out To Jada”

Barring the deaf and the blind, most who follow rap music religiously are aware that the city of Chicago is going through a renaissance of sorts, spawning a second genre–stomping,…

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Review: XV, “Stone Cold (Recipe Freestyle)”

There are few greater pleasures than hearing rappers from out of the way locales hold down their hometowns on the beat. Indeed, Nation Ruckus’ unflagging support for Montreal was a…

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Music
Op-Ed

Review: Chris Brown, “Mercy (Freestyle)”

Chris Brown has been on a rapping rampage recently, the most obvious example being the single, “look At Me Now,” in which he sings exactly one bar. While Brown is…

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Op-Ed

Freestyle of the Week Review: Cory Gunz, “Why Stop now Freestyle”

Cory Gunz is one in a number of a rare breed of rappers; those minuscule ranks who posses quicksilver flow and do not use it to hide below average lyrical…

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Mo Money Mo Problems – Joey Jihad Review

Faced with a soul-crushing dearth of deserving Freestyles this week, I have once again stretched my already lack definitions and, this time, the very fabric of time and space, to…

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Freestyle of the Week Review: Pill “Riot (Freestyle)”

One of the most promising rappers Rick Ross picked up and pushed forward in last summer’s MMG dissemination, Pill has long since left the stable but not the style. With…

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Freestyle of the Week Review: Cassidy, “Birthday Cake Freestyle”

The Freestyle of the Week stays in Philadelphia, as Cassidy lays lines on Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake.” While the general premise–Cass is talking about cash when he mentions cake, for those…

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[INTERVIEW] There’s An Answer in There Somewhere: The 2 Dash Tone

I make so many confessions and full disclosures at the beginning of these interviews that I am coming to think of them as a key literary device; little slices of…

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