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? Is Dr. Dre the GOAT producer? What is the GOAT album? Most answers to this question are so subjective as to make them meaningless, so … Read more
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 easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don’t like.” ― Frank Zappa Music has been a fundamental part of my … Read more
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 fundamentally different from the grimy beats and kung fu samples produced around the same time by RZA in New York. The dirty trap sound started … Read more