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27Mar
KRS-One tours Melbourne, Australia 3/14/12 – REVIEWED
Today we welcome Andy Brewer to the Brooklyn Bodega family. From Adelaide, Australia, he provides an intelligent and globalized take on hip-hop culture. His debut pieces? Two reviews featuring KRS-One and DJ Quik’s recent excursions to the land down under.
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26Mar
On Azealia Banks, Nicki Minaj and the ascendancy of homosexual culture in hip hop
Insofar as the expansion that comes with the initial rise to power of radical cultural notions, there may not be a better time to be black and gay in America. It’s not just enough to be able to get married
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23Mar
On Nate Dogg and the key to Frank Ocean’s mainstream success.
“Smoke weed every day” – Nate Dogg, from Snopp Dogg and Dr. Dre’s 2001 classic “The Next Episode.” “Human beings in a mob What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God? What’s a God to a
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20Mar
Old school reigns supreme. Why hip-hop’s youth movement can’t stop the dominance of 50 and Nas…
We’ve reached a point where it appears everyone is aware that a revolution is afoot. Hip-hop knows it too, and is bringing a newest school of emcees to the table. These are kids rapping in a rule free era. Their
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19Mar
On Drake’s “Take Care.” The 21st century’s first great rap album.
It’s an undeniable fact that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne re-defined hip-hop culture. It’s the first album that fully realizes that rap music has reached pop’s mountaintop, and that all the rules have changed. It’s not enough anymore
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16Mar
On urban dance pop’s evolution and Usher’s “Climax”
Usher’s “Climax” is so far ahead as a front-runner in “Song of the Year” consideration that the race could already be over. American urban pop 2012 is a turgid sea largely filled with fist-pumping electro and dubstep dregs. Meaningful mainstream
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14Mar
The walrus is Weezy. Thoughts on hip-hop’s psychedelic future.
It’s a popular notion for artists in hip-hop, or any musical genre to want to emulate The Beatles. However, for Lil Wayne and his brand new electric green Ugg boots, it’s quite possible that the notion is an obsession. The
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14Mar
On SXSW 2012, Jay-Z and the “digital class” revolution
If 2012′s South by Southwest Conference has taught us any one particular lesson, it’s that the nerds are cool and are here to stay. The full involvement of the internet in our everyday existence signals the official rise of the
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12Mar
Black Hippy, Odd Future and the spread of the blipster ideal.
Compton, California native Kendrick Lamar represents the future of hip-hop lyrical supremacy. After this past Friday afternoon, his future is now. Joining the party of blipster era internet superstar emcees to take the major label plunge, Lamar, alongside his Black
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09Mar
CELEBRATING BIGGIE: The neuroscience of “Big Poppa” and expanding hip-hop’s expectation.
Both Biggie and Big L were NYC based emcees that died at the turn of the millennium, both at the tender age of 24, due to unfortunate circumstances. How is it though that if I recite the opening bars of
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