10 Songs: Monday, June 30th, 2014
Nas Is Like… Nas – 1999, this was one of my fave tracks, the verse is all spit strong rap and choppy beat but the chorus is half a man and half amazing and my question is why does it sound so much like… A
Dave Chapelle At Radio City Music Hall, Friday, June 27th, 2014, Reviewed
Dave doesn’t really get angry, he gets bemused. He has a perpetual quizzical expression that is perhaps the only response to racial politics and personal politics left. He was fine, but he wasn’t Richard Pryor on Sunset Strip.
10 Songs: Sunday, June 29th, 2014
Mathematics – Mos Def – “You want to know how to rhyme you better learn how to add” Mos Def advises and he makes his point on this classic whose rhythmic hook has showed has shown up ever since, on the flip side of his biggest song – A