When music hits you, as Bob Marley said, you feel no pain. That is the way I feel when I first heard Tha Carter II. I’ve spoke on this album before, but I figured I’d revisit it. While not a perfect album, Lil’ Wayne’s second entry in his Carter series was one of the first […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: @BIGKRIT – Live From The Underground
A little over five years ago, Big K.R.I.T. dropped his first official release, Live From The Underground. I loved the album because, well, I’m a K.R.I.T. fan and I feel he can do no real wrong (rapping or producing). However, I felt that the album was a bit of a retread of his superior mixtapes, […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: @HerFavColor x @ExileRadio – Below the Heavens
During this SOTBMusic retrospective, I’m talking Blu’s debut album with Exile, Below the Heavens. However, instead of going through track-by-track, I want to talk about its impact on me as a person and an artist. Somehow this album is still underrated and I hope that my thoughts on it will introduce at least one new set […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retro Review: Prince’s Self-Titled Album
Between 1978 and 1979, after the initial commercial “failure” of For You, Prince hopped back into the studio and began work of his second album. The self-titled affair, featuring a shirtless Prince staring off into the distance, featured a lot of the elements we came to know and love from Prince. It took the initial […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: @BigKRIT – Return of 4 Eva
In 2011, I went through a lot of change. From the birth of my son to dealing with the repercussions of “emotional cheating” to Drizzle graduating and both of us going through our own sets of issues, I experienced a plethora of crazy moments. When I heard that Big K.R.I.T. had another project on the […]
Read moreSOTBMusic Retrospective: Watch The Throne
I wanted to do a retrospective on the 2011 JAY Z/Kanye West collaborative album Watch The Throne with an embed of the actual album. However, due to TIDAL having exclusive rights to streaming the album and my hesitancy to post just YouTube links of the songs, I won’t be able to do that. I will, however, […]
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