Posted by Logan Broger on December 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax Hyperbole aside, 2012 may have been the best year music has ever had. The envelope was pushed, welcome new trends started, and most of all, narrowing it down to ten albums was near impossible. But I managed, and as a result, have come up with the following list. Feel free to tell me [...]
Category Articles, Music, Reviews · Tags 2012, best, Code Orange Kids, Grizzly Bear, Hardcore, Indie, Kendrick Lamar, Killer Mike, Metal, rap, records
Posted by Logan Broger on August 5, 2011 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax While not a result of its overall musical quality, Rick Ross‘s Teflon Don record may just be the most influential rap album of the last few years. It wasn’t until Ross teamed up with young producer Lex Luger for the tracks “MC Hammer” and “B.M.F.” that rap started to head in a similar [...]
Category Articles, Music · Tags album, blogspot, Download, hip hop, iTunes, Jay-Z, kanye, leak, Lex Luger, MP3, new, Pre-Order, rap, release, Rick Ross, Waka Flocka, Watch the Throne, west
Posted by Joe Criger on February 21, 2011 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax I’m gonna do this thing where I’m not going to tell you what I’m writing about or why I’m writing it and if you’re up on current events or follow the news or read the trending topics at Twitter every morning, you’ll know what I’m writing about and why. I feel that further [...]
Category Articles, Blogs, Criger Finger, Music · Tags assault, battery, hip hop, horrorcore, rap, rape, sexual assault, violence in music
Posted by Logan Broger on July 19, 2010 · 5 Comments
Follow @hearwax In 1994, rapper Common released a song entitled “I Used to Love H.E.R.” (H.E.R. meaning Hearing Every Rhyme), in which he blamed the degradation of hip hop on west coast gangsta rap, and compared it largely to the misogynistic view of women in society. In 2008, he released a track entitled “Announcement”, which [...]
Posted by Logan Broger on December 6, 2009 · 12 Comments
Follow @hearwax Clipse have always been a bit of an anomaly: a coke-rapping duo with full Neptunes support (Pharrell guests on how many songs?), production ranging from bass-driven anthems (“Trill”) to percussion-dominated hits (“Grindin’”), all while stylin’ their way through two of the best hip-hop albums of the decade, 2002′s Lord Willin and 2006′s critically [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It’s aural, it’s classy, it is distinctly East Coast; it’s Tame One.
