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| Spin |
 On their second full-length, Seattle's Blue Scholars try to promote hip-hop's potential for personal transformation and political change, dedicating songs to soldiers in Iraq ("Back Home") and protesters at the 1999 WTO demonstrations ("50 Thousand Deep")....full text |
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| TinyMixTapes |
| Despite the massive sales G-Unit types point to as the only real proof of their relevance (you guys do know it’s mostly white yuppie kids buying your shit, right?), hip-hop’s roots lie with the desire and execution of socially positive acts, by the people and for the people. Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa weren’t murdering their own people for garish jewelery and independently moving rims. They had genuine concerns. The sensible Seattle duo of emcee Geologic and deft producer Sabzi, together as Blue Scholars, is all too aware of this fact, and they’re doing their part to change the trends. Thank Jebus for that small miracle....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| The line between relatable and mundane has been a hard one for rap artists to straddle: for every time Del complained about the Oakland public transit service on I Wish My Brother George Was Here or Devin the Dude stressed about how to stretch $17 on Waitin' to Inhale, there've been countless other underground MCs who rhyme about the struggle of their daily lives with the same ground-down fatigue that makes their living situation hard to tolerate in the first place. They spend so much time talking about their humble regular-guy status that they forget to draw an identifiable picture of what it's really like to be there -- and often what you're left with is PSA rap, something that somberly feeds you information you already know and thinks it's important for doing so....full text |
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