Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Connor Turner
Already anointed the next great Windy City saviour of hip-hop, Lupe’s debut album Food & Liquor was pigeonholed with a sizeable disadvantage by the enormous sense of expectation. While a stunning revival of mid-nineties era Tribe Called Quest hip-hop, the nostalgic vibe was a commercial failure, albeit a critical [...]
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Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov
While You Were Sleeping is a collection of unreleased tracks to whet fans’ appetites before Classified’s summer 2008 release of new material. The album is full of well-disguised sentimental love letters. As sentimental as Classified gets, anyway.
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Rating: 4/5Released: October 30, 2007Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov
Buck65’s last album, Secret House Against the World, was a conscious step away from his hip-hop roots. The album was overwhelmed by an ambitious combination of roots-folk, spoken word and a foundation of guitar, drums and piano rarely found in his native genre. For Situation, though, Buck [...]
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