There’s flattery here, but it’s the truly sincere form of it–the form that makes you take note of a great (Frank Ocean) while also checking out a potential future great (singer/songwriter Alex Oliva).
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Copywrite Pays Homage to Sean Price on Latest Song
There’ll never be another Sean Price. However, Copywrite channels one of the direct descendants on “White Sean Price.”
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: NJ’s @Deal_TheVillain Flows Over a Flying Lotus Beat for Autumn Leaves
What do you get when you combine an homage to some of the fallen greats with lo-fi production and a lo-fi delivery, served up on a plate that’s hot and ready to be devoured by earholes everywhere? I think you’d get something along the lines of New Jersey artist Deal The Villain’s “Autumn Fables.” Floating […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @ItsABlaccOut Pays Homage to @DMX
BlaccOut Garrison pulled this one out the bag and it’s a great homage to DMX. From the flow to the gritty realism within the bars, you can definitely see that BlaccOut’s trying to give Dark Man X those flowers while he can still smell them. Over a storytelling-ready, boombap-heavy beat from Brazilian producer Zonatreze that […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: @SpeedontheBeat’s Baltimore Commercial Break
This August 17th marks the two-year anniversary of an album that I consider my favorite project to work on, even considering the background of it, Baltimore Commercial Break. Now, while I’ve talked a bit about the processes and the stories behind some of the tracks in passing, I’d like to take this time to really […]
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