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| TinyMixTapes |
 Prior to 2002's stellar Blazing Arrow, Blackalicious were unfortunately typecast into a categorical ennui that could have been their ultimate demise altogether. Founded on the roots and branches of Quannum Projects' existence, Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel blended a plethora of funk, jazz, and old school elements that complemented the entire Quannum collective's visionary sound and structure. Unfortunately, Quannum succumbed to the same faith as many other conjoined efforts by hip-hop posses (ah hum... Definitive Jux), resulting in staleness and redundancy instead of its futuristic promise....full text |
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| Popmatters |
By and large the once holy ideal of an "album" has taken a hit in the last decade or so.
As genres splinter and form new cross-breeds from one another, technology is bounding forward faster than we can comprehend. Struggling to cope, record companies are scrambling get in on the file-sharing market, feverishly licensing their songs to online databases like iTunes for a measly $1 per song. In a landscape where music lovers can point-and-click their way to that hot new Kanye track they heard in the club, the concept of an album presenting itself as one solid entity is fading behind the horizon....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| An armchair sociology moment: the "backpack" vs "jiggy" wars of the late 90s when the Rawkus kids played it on some Italian-army-circa-1943 ish and deserted their losing cause with remarkable speed. Nowadays, they all listen to The Crunk, and fill their poorly researched MP3 blogs with all manner of japes, such as the illusion that Mike Jones isn't actually a piece of absurdist performance art, and quoting Lil Jon's hysterical catchphrases "Yes," "That would be OK," and "How you doin'?" at length, in place of any actual, you know, understanding or analysis....full text |
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