Accountability isn’t a bad word. We can’t just blame gangsta rap or “stripper music” for all of life’s ills. Although, we also can’t discount the fact that music can unknowingly influence masses. However, to continue elevating ourselves, we need balance and must also start at home and uplift our own communities as well. At least that’s how I see it.
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The group’s Volume 2: REDACTED features rappers rapping like their lives depended on it and musicians doing the same. It’s like Assembly Sounds both enjoys music and understands the cultural/business/professional side of it all, too.
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On “August,” artist Efi Cruise delivers something along the lines of conscious jazz-rap that borders on straight-up jazz. To say that I like the combination is underselling how much “August” hit me this morning.
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New year, new music, same ol’ Speed (now in his 36th year). Today, let’s get anthemic with J.Swave’s “This Year is My Year.”
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There are sometimey truths and there are absolute ones, for all life. Question the ones that are sometimey as needed.
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I love the song and love that it seeks to educate but not condemn and uplift but not punch downward.
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