Oddisee is one of those artists whose name I would see constantly but never really listened to...until one day I did, and now I listen to motherfucking everything the man puts out. He has yet to disappoint me and fittingly his new EP, "Odd Renditions", is just another in a long line of dopeness from the man.
Don't get it twisted, T.I. is still hands down one of the most powerful and successful men in hip-hop. Even after the arrest, re-arrest, re-re-arrest and re-re-re-arrest TIP is still able to command the attention of every room he walks in. However, it's also a fact that since he's been "back" he just hasn't been able to come up with a song that hits in any way. Listen...
Childish Gambino is always walking a fine line with his music. It's a mistake to box him into being an emcee who should only talk about his feelings and shit (fucking feelings). Some of the man's best work comes when he's being aggressive and throwing out some of his patented punchlines. On the other hand, if he tries to go too hard he loses me. Listen and download...
Damn, I wish I always got what I wanted that easily. When a new track from NC representer Thee Tom Hardy popped up a few weeks back it made me realize, "Man, it's been a minute since I've heard a new project from Hardy" And boom, just like that Hardy delivers a brand new album, the aptly named "Guerrilla Broadcast", featuring a plethora of some of the game's most unique flows. Listen and download...
Everyone's favorite, and I do mean favorite, RefinedHype series, "Mystery Booty of the Week (MBOW)" is back. Is the series a shameless and sexist way to keep your eyeballs glued to RefinedHype? You bet it is. Do I hear any complaints? Yeah, that's what I thought.
It seems like DMX has been a little all over the place when it comes to the songs he's released since he was last released from prison. But with his latest release titled "Sh*t Don't Change" I think we've finally got a track that's authentically DMX. Listen and download...
The fact that "Touch N' You" features both Rick Ross and Usher means this song is going to get absurd amounts of airplay, but truth be told the song is quite the extreme snooze-fest. "Touch N' You" basically sounds like every other "for the ladies" song Ross has released in the past year or so but a little more on the boring side. Listen and download...
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