B. David Zarley, Author at Parle Mag

Music
Op-Ed

Freestyle of the Week Review: 2 Dash Tone, “Niggas In Paris”

With the indisputable success of The Throne’s “Niggas in Paris,” the legion of remixes was inevitable. What sets 2 Dash Tone’s apart is his somewhat unique viewpoint; the Harlem bred…

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Nehru Jackets Himanshu Mixtape Review

Himanshu Mixtape Review Lead in by the bewildering lunacy of Kool A.D.’s The Palm Wine Drinkard, released in the dark shadow of SOPA and briefly dying with the removal of…

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Iggy Azalea – “Iggy In Moscow”

It takes a special kind of aplomb to hop on another rapper’s track. The courage needed is often dictated by the fame differential between the original and the newcomer: if…

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Music

Styles P “Float Good” review

Styles P “Float Good” Styles P provides a few bars over an unlikely source on “Float Good.” The subdued sounds of Frank Ocean’s “Swim Good” seem to play well with…

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Music

The Palm Wine Drinkard Kool A.D. mixtape review

One third of bleeding edge harlequins Das Racist, Kool A.D. may have taken the joke a little too far on The Palm Wine Drinkard, the first of a trio of…

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Music
Op-Ed

Freestyle of the Week Review: Rick Ross & Meek Mill – “No Church in the Wild”

I spent the holidays in Southeastern Ohio. Our little piece of the heart lays at the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers, muddy brown arteries whose lifeblood used to…

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Music

The Pre-Tape Nation Ruckus album review

Having owned a floppy toque or two, being a graduate of a school less than an hour away from the Peace Bridge and the shining lands of the Great White…

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Music

Award Tour Mike G’s EP Review

The most intriguing, and infuriating, aspect of the New Guard is how amorphous the classification can be. Even closely related artists, and sometimes the same artist, utilize a myriad of…

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Sports

Philadelphia Eagles – What Is Ailing The Dream Team’s Secondary

Here is a statistic that is sure to shock the apoplectic faithful rampaging about the City of Brotherly Love; the manic-depressive Birds fanatics who hail every loss as the end…

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Statik Selektah – DJ/Producer & Hip-Hop Gatekeeper

Muliple Mixtape, Quality Production, Statik Selektah Is At The Hip-Hop Forefront Few have the work ethic or eye for talent that Statik Selektah does. Originating in New England, inspired in…

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