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Album Review: ScHoolboy Q – Habits and Contradictions
If Kendrick Lamar is the natural evolution of Ras Kass, then Schoolboy Q is somewhere between Kurupt, WC, and Crooked I on one end of the spectrum, and Micah 9 and Pharoahe Monch on the other, with the...
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Album Review: Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
It is worth acknowledging that this is exactly the type of album on which rap writers love to cut their teeth, bring out their axes to grind, and throw all of their personal prejudices and hang-ups...
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Hardwood Blacktop’s 2012 Hip Hop Awards: Top 15 Albums of 2012
2012 has been an exceptional year for rap music. It’s hard to think of a year over the course of the last half a decade that saw the release of so many excellent rap albums. Remarkably ten of the...
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Hardwood Blacktop’s 2012 Hip Hop Awards: 10 Best Rappers of 2012
There have never been more divergent definitions for what makes a rapper good at rapping than there have been in 2012. HB’s formula is made up primarily of technique (originality as well as...
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