In my mind
This is not an album review. JUNE 30th was a big day for hip hop. After four years of absence, Jay Z was set to release his 13th studio album. In those four years he had popped up on songs and features here and there, but he didn’t release a full body of work for…
Tupac Amaru Shakur. Today is your 46th birthday. It’s been twenty-one years since your death, but you get so much daily love, respect and reverence it’s almost like you never left. Your presence is felt everywhere everyday, especially in hip hop. To me you had everything. Rapper, actor, poet, revolutionary, and that magnetic character. Your…
“The only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace.” – Jay Z (That is a shot at Christopher Columbus, and a praise for his man Biggie Smalls, also known by his government name of Christopher Wallace. Jay Z always has been a master of the double-entendre.) That being said, it’s Biggie’s born day today (May 21st)! Everybody…
Kendrick Lamar released DAMN., his highly anticipated, third major label studio album this Friday April 14, 2017. As I was listening to it, a line from Jay Z’s song “Moment of Clarity” kept coming back to me: “I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars, they criticized me for it, yet they all…
“She like ‘Don’t you know this s**t already?’‘N***a ain’t you rich already?’” “Yeah but I got dumb as s**t, hanging around these rappers cause they dumb as s**t.” That’s from J. Cole ladies and gentlemen, and boy is he right. I’m a hip-hop nerd to the core. The sheer emotion and adrenaline of rap music…