After talking about it/hinting about its existence for a while, True and Apollo come back to their HS roots and drop a project that’s more diverse, but still lyrically sound. It’s quite possibly their beat work as a duo, if I’m being honest. The phrase “something for everyone” is a bit cliched. However, just because […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Shokus Apollo Explores The Sun In Scorpio
Shokus Apollo opted to ring in his thirtieth (we’re getting old) with a new project. The Sun in Scorpio is nothing like Tresvant. Instead of an exploration of melody and 90s R&B homages, we’re given more of an attacking Apollo over dreamy instrumentation in a journey through the cosmos, stopping off throughout lands of astrology and […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Shokus Apollo Releases Tresvant
My Team DAR brother Shokus Apollo returns to the mic to deliver his first album after an almost two-year hiatus from solo work. Tresvant, named after Apollo’s alter ego “Apollo Tresvant,” features a mix between smoker-friendly production and heavy emphasis on lyricism, even on the turn-up songs such as “High Tide.” Keeping true to the […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: DARiousBuller Combine to Bring LFE and Team DAR Together on The Revolution Will B Trill
Dugee F. Buller recently collected the tracks he did with Shokus Apollo and True God over the past year or so and dropped them as a whole project. It’s LFE meets DAR and it’s a thing of beauty. Yes, you may’ve heard some of the tracks before. However, hearing them again in this collection adds […]
Read moreAn Honest Review of @TrueGodImmortal and @ShokusApollo’s #TheOutsiders
Disclosure: Please note that, while it’s always #DARBiz, I will be looking at this album objectively (read: looking at as if I didn’t know True, Apollo, or anything about Team DAR). Therefore, it won’t be straight-up 10s across the board if it doesn’t deserve it. This is my team, so as a member of said […]
Read moreSpeedontheBeat.com’s Top Seventeen Hip-Hop Albums of the Year
I guess I really am more blogger than rapper these days. Snide comment aside, 2014 was a weird year for music. For every Black Messiah which dropped, we had a one-hit wonder make their way into the fray. Artists spoke out about Ferguson, and sometimes did more harm than good. Azealia Banks decided to go at everyone. […]
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