I have been pretty hard on hip-hop recently. I don’t want to be, I just can’t help it. I get excited every time I hear someone raving about a new release, but more often than not I am left disappointed and confused. Am I getting too old to understand what ‘good’ hip-hop means? Am...
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Kanye West & Jay-Z – Watch The Throne (Roc-A-Fella, 2011) Watch The Throne, the much-hyped collaboration between Kanye West and Jay-Z, isn’t going to win these two any new fans, but they won’t lose any either. If you are a fan of these giants of hip-hop, you should enjoy this album. You might even...
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I just paid $14.99 for an album on iTunes. I don’t think I have ever bought an album on iTunes and I have never paid $14.99 for digital music. The fact that I charged something more than a $0.99 iPhone game to my iTunes account is a testament to the marketing skills and ‘leak...
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Wugazi – 13 Chambers (self-released, 2011) Obviously this album layers Wu-Tang rhymes over Fugazi post-rock to create the ultimate tribute to the early 90′s. What might not be so obvious before listening to the album is how well these diverse groups fit together. Like Danger Mouse and Jaydiohead before them, Cecil Otter, Swiss Andy,...
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In these days when most are too jaded to even waste their time claiming ‘hip-hop is dead’, the Minneapolis-based Doomtree collective continue to put out exciting releases from P.O.S., Dessa and most recently Simms. Today they leaked the first track off their Wugazi project. Joining the likes of Danger Mouse‘s Grey Album and Jaydiohead‘s...
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It had been well over a year since I’d been to a hip-hop show. Sure, I’d seen hip-hop acts at festivals, but the last true hip-hop show I attended was the P.O.S., Dessa, Grieves show back in February of last year. It’s not that I don’t like hip-hop, it’s just that I have been...
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ILSUHD2 will be on a posting hiatus for two weeks while on holiday in Cambodia and Thailand from March 26th – April 10th, but this does not mean you have to start listening to 106.7 KBPI or your city’s equivalent…we’ve got you covered! With all the interviews, features and live shows lately, we’ve gotten...
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1969 – 2011 Nate Dogg has passed away at the age of 41. Details of his death have yet to be released, but he had suffered a stroke in both 2007 and 2008, the first one leaving the left side of his body paralyzed. Nate Dogg was an invaluable asset to the second Golden...
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Yesterday Kanye posted his Xmas tune Christmas In Harlem, but it was not finished. Today the finished track featuring Teyana Taylor, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Pusha T, Big Sean, and CyHi Da Prynce was posted on the Good Music-blog. Take a listen below. Kanye West – Christmas In Harlem
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‘Now if you don’t think this song is the greatest song ever, I will fight you. That’s no lie.’ – Ron Burgundy The best thing about the end-of-year lists isn’t finding out where everyone decided to place the new Arcade Fire, Kanye or Deerhunter or to hear people bitch that their favorite album didn’t...
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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy After a year that can only be described as ‘fuckin’ ridiculous’, Kanye drops his 5th album on Tuesday. Almost every track has been leaked over the past few months, whether by Kanye himself in his G.O.O.D Friday series, on awards shows or by other means. But...
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