Album Review: Jay Rock – 90059
Of the four members of TDE’s Black Hippy collective, Jay Rock always seems to be the most overlooked. Jay Rock does not have the same buzz of TDE main superstar Kendrick Lamar, the magnetism of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Mac Miller – GO:OD AM
Mac Miller is a hip hop head through and through. Following a mediocre studio debut on 2011’s Blue Slide Park, Mac brought in a slew of producers from Flying Lotus to Pharrell to help him on his 2013...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Drake & Future – What a Time to Be Alive
Go outside. Take a deep breath. Come back. Sit down. Continue reading this review and marvel at the wonderful age of hip hop we live in. An age where a former child actor from Toronto and an auto-tuned...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Disclosure – Caracal
Two years after the commercial success of Disclosure’s album, Settle, brothers – Howard and Guy Lawrence, aged just 21 and 24 – are back with the release of their sophomore album, Caracal. Right off...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kelela – Hallucinogen
With electronic music permeating every aspect of underground and mainstream consumption, artists who care about both live and album versions of their electronic sounds are increasingly difficult to...
View ArticleReview: Savages – Adore Life
Adore Life is a confrontational record. From the instant one is exposed to its raw sounds and earnest sentiment, one thing remains clear: Savages have something to say, and they fucking mean it. The...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Majid Jordan – Majid Jordan
A chance meeting between two students – Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman (while attending the University of Toronto), blossomed into a great friendship due to their love of music. After dropping...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Anderson .Paak – Malibu
The first time I gave Anderson .Paak’s Malibu a listen I wasn’t satisfied. I didn’t hear the same genre-bending music that was found on his previous album Venice and although that album wasn’t without...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
The musician currently known as Kanye West is an asshole. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. I could write for days regarding his assholery, but frankly I’m just happy to have the word...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Future – Purple Reign // EVOL
Nothing was the same. Well, it hasn’t been for a while. A lot has changed for Future since the release of his last mixtape, 56 Nights almost a year ago. Future scored his first #1 album, a full...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
Fresh off a Grammy for what will undoubtedly go down in the hip-hop history books as one of the greatest albums of all-time in To Pimp a Butterfly, it seems Kendrick Lamar can do no wrong even if he...
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Album Review: The Range – Potential
“Right now, I don’t have a backup plan for if I don’t make it / I was too sad to move on to something bigger and better.” The internet is a playground for musicians to build their interpretation of the...
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Album Review: Drake – Views
If Drake’s 2011 Grammy-winning sophomore effort Take Care stands as his most personal and introspective musical offering then Views is his nostalgic opus yearning for his humbler Jane and Weston...
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Album Review: Kaytranada – 99.9%
It’s been over two weeks since Louis Kevin Celestin, known by his stage name Kaytranada dropped his fantastic debut album, 99.9%. The album is an evolution of musical progression that blends a...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
As indicated on the cover, Chance The Rapper’s Coloring Book was originally entitled 3 as it is the third in a series of mixtapes that have launched the young musician’s career into the stratosphere....
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“More Life” The Drake Album That “Views” Never Was
Following the lukewarm critical, but commercially scorching, reception to last year’s uber-anticipated Toronto love letter Views, Drake wasted little time getting right back in the booth to put in work...
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Kendrick Lamar shines brighter than ever on ‘DAMN.’
Coming off the conceptual masterwork that was To Pimp a Butterfly, which earned him a Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2016, Kendrick Lamar’s place in hip hop history was cemented and left many conceding...
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Drake and Future Show Us Why They Run Hip-Hop on ‘What a Time to Be Alive’
Go outside. Take a deep breath. Come back. Sit down. Continue reading this review and marvel at the wonderful age of hip hop we live in. An age where a former child actor from Toronto and an auto-tuned...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Disclosure – Caracal
Two years after the commercial success of Disclosure’s album, Settle, brothers – Howard and Guy Lawrence, aged just 21 and 24 – are back with the release of their sophomore album, Caracal. Right off...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kelela – Hallucinogen
With electronic music permeating every aspect of underground and mainstream consumption, artists who care about both live and album versions of their electronic sounds are increasingly difficult to...
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