It’s been some time since I reviewed a hip-hop album. I feel like the genre has mostly passed me by. Or maybe I’ve passed it by. I don’t know. I just don’t connect...
It's been right about 20 years since I first heard Kool Keith's Dr. Octagon persona on his debut album under that banner, Dr. Octagonecologyst. There was appare...
I am a sucker for a certain era of rap. It's mostly early nineties into the mid-nineties. The rappers back then decided that because they're music was based on ...
Even as I started this album I couldn't remember if I was firing up an MF Doom or a Kool Keith joint. The first couple tracks did very little to remind me, as D...
The humble brag isn't a good look for a rapper. That's how Murs starts off this album with an odd God-centric track that basically talks about his comfy life, h...
Earl, the reform school, bipolar rap prodigy from the hot-for-a-minute Odd Future, surprisingly seems to be the one that really broke out from under the yoke of...
The man is like the Chris Farley of rap. On second thought he's more like the John Belushi of rap. And it's not just because the man loves Italian sandwiches (l...
I have a love/hate relationship with modern rap. Mostly hate. With the whole mixtape thing, it feels like the market has been saturated with a bunch of assholes...
Maybe it's just me, but it seems the fun has gone out of hip-hop. It's not to say fun is what the genre is all about, but back when I was really into the whole ...
This album would literally make Hipster Father-in-Law's head explode. And, yes, I know when people say "literally" they usually use it incorrectly as hyperbole ...
This guy is nutz with a z. He starts off sounding like a hybrid between The Pharcyde and Funkdoobiest. But he mentions both Spongebob and The Matrix within the ...
This album starts quick out of the gate with the really nice throwback, horn inflected "Momma Told Me." Then the album kind of settles into a more low-key under...
Nothing like a giant fat white guy who sounds just like Ghostface to bring a smile to your face. Well, Ghostface minus the sensitive latter day Big Daddy Kane s...
These guys set it up from the very beginning that they aren't out to make friends. They're out to poop on hip-hop. They're the nerdy Wu-Tang with the I don't gi...
If there were ever a more appropriate college album than this one, I can't think of what it might be. What could be better than encouraging drinking and puffing...
Yeah, cuz Kool Keith needed another alias. And, actually, Ice-T probably did. Since starring in every straight-to-video movie that came along where they needed ...
It's good to see L.A. representin', yo! And I can't believe there is a modern hip-hop record that isn't made by Will Smith that doesn't have anything about whit...
I'm not much for instrumental albums or albums filled with guest spots. So imagine my disappointment when the second Vik Vaughn album turned out to be not much ...
