January 2012
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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#TheMoreYouKnow About Hip/Hop
2012 is comin’, 2011 almost done.  A lot of things have changed, a lot of things have not.  Mainly me.  This year of hip/hop has been a challenge.  Coming from a position of knowing little to nothing about hip/hop and not really caring that I did not know anything about hip/hop, I have come a long way.  I now find hip/hop to be a legitimate form of music, more legitimate than several...
Dec 31st
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The New Year Music Challenge: Week LII
Beat Rabbi feat. DeepSpace5 - DeepSpace5oul Beat Rabbi, in his description of this album, set out to create a hip/hop album that resembled the hip/hop albums of the 90s when the samples were thick with funk, jazz and soul. Originally, it was going to be a largely instrumental album, but as the project went on and the DeepSpace5 crew became a part of it, the project morphed into something...
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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New Stuffs from 'zee Christmastime
So I received a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas and decided to buy four books on their website to have shipped to me (and I only had to pay $1.97): Hip-Hop Redemption: Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme by Ralph Basui Watkins Liberating Black Theology: The Bible and the Black Experience in America by Anthony B. Bradley On Being Black and Reformed: A New Perspective on the...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 27th
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“Parents: Blake, why is Santa unconscious on the living room floor? Me: I...”
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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The New Year Music Challenge: Week LI
Listener - Whispermoon Dan Smith, a.k.a. the Listener, may be one of the most unique and intelligent emcees in the game today.  Yes, he is white and, yes, he is from Arkansas (and looks like it!), but his “spoken word” approach to rapping is far superior to his kin, such as Sole.  It doesn’t hurt that he is also creative with his lyrical play.  The one thing that can be said...
Dec 25th
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“Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were...”
– Third Verse of “The Love of God,” a hymn penned by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917.  This verse was written by a ward of an insane asylum, as Lehman put it: “One day, dur­ing short in­ter­vals of in­at­ten­tion to our work, we picked up a scrap of pa­per and, seat­ed up­on an emp­ty...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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The New Year Music Challenge: Week L
Playdough - Lonely Superstar After two DeepSpace5 albums, Playdough ventured out into a solo album which, on the whole, turns out to be a solid hip/hop album.  Out of all of the DeepSpace5 crew, Playdough provides the most bravado in his persona.  He is an established battle-rapper out of Dallas, TX (check out some of those battles on Youtube), so he is practiced at finding creative ways of...
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“Okay, The Scarlet Letter. To me, the A stands for asshole. Both Hester and...”
– Crazy, Stupid Love. Absolutely hilarious, and exactly how I feel about The Scarlet Letter.
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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The New Year Music Challenge: Week XLIX
DeepSpace5 - The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be One thing I noticed at the beginning of this month: all of the sample databases do not register any remotely Christian hip/hop artists and I do not have near the wide spectrum of music knowledge to pick up samples on every track.  I am guessing this is because hip/hop heads automatically assume that anything that is remotely Christian must...
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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100 Followers...
…and, yet, I feel like a failure, because most of you I don’t really know and the rest I just barely know and two of you I know very well.  I have much work to do to make sure I know those people who were willing enough to endure my music posts and incessant existentially chaotic posts.  Thank you for following and make me get to know you…seriously.
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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WatchWatch
Treat your ears right. Listen to this track. And if you don’t buy the album, then you will likely miss out on the greatest Christmas music made recently.
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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The New Year Music Challenge: Week XLVIII
Jaylib - Champion Sound Madlib, simply on the work of Madvillainy and Champion Sound alone, has moved into my top echelon of hip/hop artists for the year.  Some of his DJ and producer material is a bit of an undertaking to listen to, especially his 30-40 minutes mixes that show up from time to time.  He does have a bit of an ADD personality that can be seen in his music.  There is no doubt that...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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