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While he may not get the blog-love or indie-rap nerd hype associated with a lot of other emcees these days, Denizen Kane has forged a strong career for himself on
What are some of your favorite songs buried deep on an album by an artist not a lot of people even know about?
As a listener, it's getting harder and harder to give new artists the benefit of the doubt. Everybody raps; and hardly anyone is worth a damn. Sketch, however, can SPIT.
I read a couple of great satirical pieces recently about how to write about Africa, and how to write about Muslims. This is an admittedly less serious topic, but
It’s been called “post-rap,†it’s been called “hip popm†and it’s been called “hey why won’t that OutKast guy just shut up and rap?†But no matter how you file
To me, this is indie hip hop’s OK Computer. It’s that good.
...Who are your favorite female-identified hip hop artists?...
While his other albums all have worthwhile tracks, Williams has never sounded so focused; his self-titled album isn’t a spoken-word masterpiece—it’s just a masterpiece.
An album that deftly combines the spiritual with the political with the personal, Mama’s Gun deserves a place in the soul music canon right next to the best albums from
It doesn’t succeed despite its eccentricities; it succeeds because of them.
It’s the perfect soundtrack to a society that’s either evolving into something new or destroying itself, maybe both.