Search results for 'blackalicious'
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Blazing Arrow (Quannum Projects / MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
BLACKALICIOUS BLAZING ARROW Quannum Projects / MCA For better and worse, a lot of things change when a major label picks up an underground group. It leaves me, for one, not knowing exactly how to feel. In 2G, Blackalicious dropped Nia, which was most definitely one of the best albums that year. With ...
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The Living Soul (Hum Drums/Groove Attack). Review by Bill Campbell.
3582 THE LIVING SOUL Hum Drums/Groove Attack For hip-hoppers who consider suicide when Blackalicious isn't enuff, here comes 3582's The Living Soul. Fat Jon (35) and J. Rawls (82) take time away from their respective 5 Deez and Lone Catalysts to deliver a soulful hip-hop gem that picks up the torch ...
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Understanding (Big Dada). Review by Stein Haukland.
... , marking them out as some of the truly individual rap voices of recent times. And with guests ranging from Ty and Roots Manuva to members of Blackalicious and Antipop Consortium, you know you're in for something out of the ordinary. What's truly impressive about this release isn't the fact that it's ...
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Vol. 2 (Groove Attack). Review by Bill Campbell.
... picture. If Big Willie would take Talib Kweli's advice and look underground, he would see the battlefield mined with the talents of Company Flow, Blackalicious, Micranots, and their ilk. These groups, and other acts like them, have a lot to say and great beats to pound. Maybe Will Smith just doesn't ...
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All of the Above (Coup d'Etat). Review by Christopher R. Weingarten.
... . He is a hip-hop revisionist with the flow of Del tha Funkee Homosapien, the arty cadence of De La Soul, and the playful word-game-obsessed brain of Blackalicious. "One For the Griot" tells a tale with multiple-endings, sounding like Slick Rick narrating a "choose your own adventure" story. The gleeful ...
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Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
... 's song isn't too bad. Cassandra Wilson does another one of her mind-blowing pop song deconstructions with "Time After Time." The Roots, Hi-Tek, and Blackalicious also appear. For you old hip-hoppers, Eric B. & Rakim's "7 Minutes of Madness -- The Cold Cut Remix" version of "Paid In Full" has been added ...
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Being Black (Waxploitation / Spun). Review by Bill Campbell.
... and pride that's to be found in the book. Boiling over with rappers of substance (Jurassic 5, Mystic, Dilated Peoples, Jazzy Jeff, Will.I.Am, Blackalicious, and Bahamadia), the disc does exactly that and more -- giving us some real hip-hop. The music's tight, the beats hard, and the rhymes deep. The ...
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Remember the name. Shelton Hull brings us up to speed on Jacksonville's hottest rap property.
ANATOMY OF A BUZZ THE MAKING OF ASAMOV by Shelton Hull "Summoning the pass-the-mic group ethic of rap music's past, this Jacksonville-based quartet achieves a feel-good vibe on its debut via soulful beats, vocal harmonies, and doses of humor." These 31 words, from the "Indie Beat" section of Vibe magazine ...
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