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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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Rockie Fresh – Driving 88 mixtape download

New music from Rockie Fresh, an artist with a bright future. Check out his latest mixtape, Driving 88.

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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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Rick Ross – Rich Forever mixtape download

Rick Ross starts the year off right with his newest project, Rich Forever. He continues to prepare for his upcoming album, God Forgives, I Don’t and this is a quality…

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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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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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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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‘TM103: Hustlerz Ambition’ – Young Jeezy album review

From “What I Do” to “F.A.M.E.”, Young Jeezy’s TM103: Hustlerz Ambition is composed of anthems that bang hard through the speakers and is bound to keep Jeezy a known commodity…

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BAYTL… Gucci Mane and V-Nasty’s album review

The first high profile collaboration between a mainstream rapper and a member of the New Guard, Gucci Mane and V-Nasty’s BAYTL bears the scars that one would expect from such…

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