What happens when you mix boombap, jazz, lyrically-deep Southern hip-hop and shoegaze? “GDP” answers that question.
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SOTBMusic 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 more1995: One of the Best Worst Years for Hip-Hop
Now, let it be known that I’m not an A-Class expert on the golden ages of hip-hop. In 1995, I was a seven-to-eight-year-old out of Baltimore. The East/West Coast beef didn’t really have much effect on Baltimore outside of the fact that, from what I can recall and from anecdotal evidence, it seemed to be […]
Read moreSpeed’s Long-Overdue Big KRIT Review
So, I know that this one may going to ruffle some feathers, but, here goes.. I copped Live from the Underground the day that it came out, as I’ve been a fan of the King Remember in Time since the KRIT wuz Here mixtape–which ultimately led me to go back and listen to his pre-critically-acclaimed […]
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