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Alright, it has been about a week since I posted the survey to learn a little bit more about who is posting here. I’ll post the full results at the bottom if anybody wants to see them but I’ll start by talking a bit about what I found....
Drop Watch: August 25th, 2023...
Just to be clear, this doesn’t have to be what you think the best diss track is. I want your favorite....
One of the most exciting events of music people every year is the Spotify wrapped or whatever it’s called on other platforms. It’s fun knowing how much we’ve actually listened to something. However, most streaming services version of this kinda sucks. You can only get it once a year, there’s no way of seeing all your...
Wanted to try somebody a little bit older this time. With 5 consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard Charts between 1998 and 2003, DMX was absolutely enormous in the late 90s. While the language in some of his songs hasn’t aged great, there is no denying that he was an absolute phenomenon and a legend in the game....
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Awesome to see Roxanne Shante MC Lyte, Latifah, and many others share their stories and continue to be celebrated for their groundbreaking contributions. Also dope to see Bahamadia!
I mostly just listen to stuff I know I like, but once or twice a month I hop on Spotify and listen to a playlist I don’t normally try. A few days ago it was “Street Soul”. I’d never actually noticed this playlist before. Some of the stuff was dope but I noticed something that I think I really hate in modern rap. And now...
Figured I’d try to get some discussion going. Maybe start a new one of these every few day for different artists. Seems like a good way to hear some songs maybe I don’t know from artists with deep discographies, or hear the best stuff from artists I might not fuck with normally...
Anybody watch the live stream? A very mixed line up of old and new artists, and the crowd seemed dead, but there were a lotta great classic artists. Nas (with surprise guest Lauryn Hill) was the best
Drop Watch: August 11th, 2023...
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