Tag: Kanye West
My Favorite Hip-Hop Albums by Year (2007-2011): Part I
The last decade has been phenomenal for hip-hop. With artists like Drake and Kanye West stringing together hit after hit and artists like Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar proving…
Most Underrated: Nappy Roots
GOAT – Greatest of All Time If you spend anytime on hip-hop forums around the internet, you are bound to bump into the GOAT question. Who is the GOAT MC?…
My Aesthetic Imagination: Music
Series Introduction “The Ultimate Rule ought to be: ‘If it sounds GOOD to you, it’s bitchin’; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it’s shitty. The more your musical experience, the…
What Kind of Hood Is You Claiming?
Since its inception, the sounds of hip hop were inherently tied to geography and space. The deep, rolling basslines of the west coast g-funk classics pioneered by Dr. Dre were…