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AZ: A.W.O.L.
AZ is a ninja-Zorro-pirate-samurai-Neo-Tony Montana-Shaft-ass mofo on the mic, for serious!"
Lee Henderson
17 Nov 2005
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Young Jeezy: Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Guess Who's Bizzack! Young Jeezy blazed the mix tape scene. His Def Jam debut proves Jay-Z knows how to treat his 'new bitch, corporate America'.
Lee Henderson
31 Oct 2005
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Tony Yayo: Thoughts of a Predicate Felon
These big-budget CDs are interesting for the same reasons we go see the summer blockbuster: to check out this year's latest special effects introduced in basically the same story we watched last summer.
Lee Henderson
17 Oct 2005
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They Shoot Horses Don't They
This band is better than every other band on earth, even if you combined all the other bands on earth into one gigantic band -- this band would still be better than that band.' Yet another Canadian collective claims a young writer's heart.
Lee Henderson
05 Oct 2005
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B.G.: Heart of tha Streetz Vol. 1
At his best B. Gizzle is the Dirty South's anti-Robocop machine.
Lee Henderson
29 Sep 2005
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Beanie Sigel: The B. Coming
This is another insanely over-produced rap record for old people who still want gangsta but none of the loudness associated with it.
Lee Henderson
01 Aug 2005
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Daedelus: Exquisite Corpse
Daedelus, the humble producer, is way more impressive than he realizes, and this album is almost proof.
Lee Henderson
26 Jul 2005
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The Ying Yang Twins: United States of Atlanta
The Ying Yang Twins are filthy misogynistic geniuses, and their new record is their most derivative and brilliant yet.
Lee Henderson
12 Jul 2005
Music
Subtle: A New White
Anticon draws its rock influences to the surface of its hip-hop stream, as Doseone and bandmates create the first post-rock rap record, a landmark debut that went unnoticed last year.
Lee Henderson
19 Jun 2005
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Gruf: Hopeless
The Canadian North has microphone fiends, and producers gone grime, and you ain't heard of that?"
Lee Henderson
12 Jun 2005
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Do or Die: D.O.D.
Do or Die follow their younger Chicago colleagues, Twista and Kanye West, into the American limelight with this impressive but lousily packaged new record.
Lee Henderson
22 May 2005
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The Lumberjacks: The Goodie Mob Presents... Livin' Life as Lumberjacks
The Goodie Mob try the power of positive thinking to deal with the loss of another member, compelling the remaining two MCs to pose under the beard of the Lumberjacks and release an album that works hard but not especially well.
Lee Henderson
31 Mar 2005
Music
Thomas Fehlmann: Lowflow
Ambient in the age of Prefuse 73 sees Orb collaborator Thomas Fehlmann working the clicks & cuts into impressive sonic smokescapes to achieve an album that struggles to attain solidity in a genre that sees too much ephemera.
Lee Henderson
08 Mar 2005
Music
UGK: Chopped & Screwed
You think being chopped and screwed doesn't sound like a good time? Listen again...
Lee Henderson
07 Mar 2005
Music
Ammoncontact: One in an Infinity of Ways
Ammoncontact is hip-hop in the shade of Ninja Tune and Mo' Wax, and these are two very relaxing trees to hang out under, especially because you can bring your laptop.
Lee Henderson
16 Dec 2004
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Lil' Jon: Crunk Juice
On a musical level, Lil' Jon is the Raffi of gangsta rap. This is speak-and-spell rap.
Lee Henderson
06 Dec 2004
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Snoop Dogg: Bigg Snoop Dogg's Puff Puff Pass Tour [DVD]
The filmmakers start to draw out a larger message: The Drug War was a second American Civil War, led by a racist Southern family named Bush, to re-imprison blacks and other minorities.
Lee Henderson
05 Dec 2004
Music
Wu-Tang Clan: Wu-Tang Clan's Greatest Hits
The Wu-Tang Clan is a group of artists whose reputation could grow to become as important to modern history as Dada or Motown.
Lee Henderson
18 Nov 2004
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