Kendrick has always patterned himself after 2pac. This is one of those perfectly articulated dedications. Section.80 is a brilliant album and should be treated as such.
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Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G bring you a special edition of Comprehensive Beatdown this week. The guys listen to the new Kendrick Lamar album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” for the first time and offer their comments and discussion without any pre-work or notes. “To Pimp a Butterfly” was scheduled for a March 23 release, but a snafu with Lamar’s label, Interscope, led to the album being released for a short period of time on March 16. The album was pulled once the mistake was discovered, but the guys got their hands on an early copy and vowed not to listen until they could sit down and record the podcast. So, sit back and listen as Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G go through one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year. The guys are left a little speechless on several occasions.
Comprehensive Beatdown will be back next week with a very special “Ladies Edition” of the podcast with the return of the regular segments. You won’t want to miss it.
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The posse cut from Long.Live.A$AP features what many consider the new wave of Hip-Hop doing what thye do best over some Hit-Boy production. The best of the young bucks in the game go in. Enjoy.
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Bloggy Bonilla and Silent G host the inaugural episode of “Comprehensive Beatdown,” a podcast to shine light on new music. In this week’s episode, the guys break down “B4.DA.$$” from Joey Bada$$. A track from the new Aphex Twin EP is discussed as well as “Blacker the Berry,” Kendrick Lamar’s most recent single release. “Comprehensive Beatdown” introduces its segment entitled “Shitty Songs From our Friends,” where a horrible song is selected by a local Jackson artist, musician, or business owner, and submitted to the podcast for review. DJ Young Venom submitted something called “Honey Dip” and the guys listen to it for the first time on the podcast. The episode is wrapped up with a look at a song from Jackson hip hop artist Dolla Black. Thanks for tuning in.
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Top Dag Entertainment’s SZA will be dropping her album Z, tomorrow and the DJ Dahi produced “Babylon” is but one song on the stand out album. The song is a great representation of SZA’s potential, of course, a cameo from Kendrick Lamar never hurts anyone. SZA can certainly stand on her own two feet. She has the voice of a siren infused with this bass heavy beat which makes this an instant repeat track.
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Tech N9ne’s 2013 album Something Else is probably the most growth we’ve seen from Tech over a record. This is coming from someone who was checking for Tech back in the Wake Up Show days, when all he had out was “Planet Rock” before Calm Before The Storm even dropped. Tech can spit like nobody’s business. His label Strange Music has redefined what an independent music label can do and be. He recently signed Murs to his label. He was on the Black Hippy movement before anyone else, when he signed Jay Rock. He continues to evolve which is crazy. This is a man who packs shows like Jay-Z and rocks shows like……I mean like nobody you can imagine. Here we get Tech and Kendrick giving verses providing hope and recognition to the real artists. With !Mayday! and Kendall Morgan vocals on the hook.
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Plan B is working Kendrick, and the hearts of the people are worth more than platinum and gold. Imagine Dragon’s remix to “Radioactive” features the Compton rapper murdering everything. In the grander scheme of things this is going to strengthen Kendrick’s brand. David Dennis at Smoking Section wrote a great article on it yesterday, check it out here. You can also pick up the track on iTunes. It’s going to be a HUGE year for TDE, Schoolboy Q’s album, Oxymoron, is getting ready to drop in a couple months and you can believe that there will be some fall out hype for his project.
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I wanted Kendrick Lamar to win the Grammy for best rap album for obvious and probably selfish reasons. I know Macklemore probably had the bigger mainstream year with “Thrift Shop” and his politically charged track “Same Love”. I also knew that Kendrick did not stand a chance. If anyone would have told me back in ’09 that Macklemore would have beat out Kendrick Lamar, then K-Dot, for a Grammy in literally every rap category, I would have laughed you out the building. Kendrick has been crowned the Prince of hip-hop and King of the West Coast for the last several years. He has released 2 critically acclaimed projects before Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. Macklemore had released an album and a few EPs over the years, with little recognition, leading up to The Heist. Of the two, I believe that Kendrick had the better album, though I don’t get a Grammy vote. There has been a ton of backlash towards Macklemore because he beat out Kendrick. I mean most of you were dancing to “Thift Shop” before it got big and you know it. I really don’t care for dudes music and I never have, that song was catchy though. So what makes you “discount” his music now that he beat out Kendrick? Discount, get it?, ha, anyway would it be different if Kendrick would have won at least one award last night? Macklemore himself knows that Kendrick deserved to win. What if he would have said so during his acceptance speech. Would the hate still have been so much?
A lot can be learned when comparing the two acts last night, Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons performed a mash-up of their smash hits “Maad City” & “Radioactive”. A spectacular performance that was executed flawlessly. Regarded by many as the not just the best performance of the night but the best Grammy live act in a years. Macklemore performed his “controversial” track “Same Love” with Mary Lambert (who co-wrote the song), Trombone Shorty, Queen Latifah who married 33 couples (although the television cameras still wouldn’t show anyone kissing), and Madonna’s sorry, Boss Hogg, calling her son a *****, looking self. It seemed more like a publicity stunt using Macklemore, sans Ryan Lewis, as the main attraction. This is where I believe the line is drawn. Kendrick Lamar is an artist, he lives his art, he is Hip-Hop. He will continue to make great records and we will continue to support him. Macklemore is a nice story, he almost gave up on making music. Then teamed up with Ryan Lewis and started making music again and then a few years down the road they strike gold or platinum rather. The mainstream has continually looked for it’s great white hope in the Rap industry. Vanilla Ice couldn’t do it, Eminem wouldn’t do it, so what will Macklemore be? I don’t know if Macklemore has the ability to be it. Maybe he does. Time will tell. That is what was at work last night, Kendrick Lamar had a great album and in most any other year would have won numerous awards. Unfortunately he went up against the machine, a machine who wants to create stars but prefers those stars to be on the lighter end of the color prism.
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20Syl, French producer/emcee, drops a new remix off to kick start his 2014. This time Kendrick Lamar’s “Sing That S***” get’s the old what for.
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Kendrick + The Doctor + Scoop DeVille? Yessir, go ahead and press play…..
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