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Ryan Israel | Thursday, September 24, 2020
It’s 2020, the world is on fire, they killed Pop Smoke, Kanye leaked his contract, Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper released a devotional love song, Bobby Shmurda and Drakeo the Ruler are still in jail, Kendrick Lamar is M.I.A. and if it’s a hit, it’s probably a TikTok hit. But rap music hasn’t stopped.
Owen Lane | Monday, February 27, 2017
Chicago-native Lupe Fiasco’s sixth album “DROGAS Light” has arrived, almost exactly two years after his middling effort “Tetsuo & Youth.” Lupe Fiasco busted onto the rap scene more than 10 years ago with as much power and energy as any great rap rookie. “Food and Liquor” and “The Cool” are both excellent rap albums that
Matt McMahon | Tuesday, February 9, 2016
It’s really no wonder the mash-ups on the Kanye Wes Anderson Tumblr fit together so naturally. Despite the apparent diametrical stylistic opposition between the two, both musician Kanye West and filmmaker Wes Anderson create their individual works in the post-postmodern mindset of New Sincerity. Eschewing the cynicism and irony of the previous generation, the two embrace the
Matt McMahon | Wednesday, January 28, 2015
On Lupe Fiasco’s early album centerpiece “Murals,” the Chicago rapper talks a lot, but doesn’t say much. Across its repetitive, hookless, one-verse, eight-and-a-half minutes of a recycling piano line, Fiasco at one point plays a game of word association that comes across like an amateur improvising a freestyle, scrambling to string together just enough syllables