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Here's the hip hop on our playlist this month:
Blood Moon: Year of The
Wolf, The Game's sixth
studio release, immediately
identifies everything his
fans love him for. He's
an aggressive individual,
delivering lines such as "I'm
the black Marshall Mathers"
on the explosive opener
'Bigger Than Me', showing
the rapper's persistent
confidence in himself.
Not many can back up
statements of superiority
over 2pac or The Notorious
B.I.G., but The Game comes
pretty close.
Blood Moon might not
eclipse the acclaim of The
Documentary or Doctor's
Advocate, but it certainly
has enough variety,
aggression and supreme
bars for hip-hop heads to
keep spinning it all year.
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
THE GAME - BLOOD MOON:
YEAR OF THE WOLF
The West Coast rapper's sixth studio
release shows signs of a resurgening
career.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH
FLIPTRIX
The High Focus leader is having an insane end to the year
HIP HOP LEGENDS
RUN-DMC
It's been just over 30 years since
Run-DMC changed the face of Hip-Hop
It's been just over 30 years
since Run- DMC released
their seminal track 'It's
Like That'. It's the track
that marked a change in
the order of things: the
move away from the more
upbeat old school hip hop
of Grandmaster Flash and
The Furious Five to more
cynical lyrics and vocally
aggressive music. The
success of the track pushed
the group to release their
eponymous debut album
in 1984 that included
ground-breaking hits such
as 'Jam-Master Jay' and
'Hard Times', as well as the
highly influential, platinum
certified 'Rock Box', which
paved the way for future
Hip-Hop/Rock fusions. It
was also the first rap video
to air on MTV. Their most
famous contribution to
music was of course 'Walk
This Way', a defining track
of the 80s and one which
not only put hip-hop firmly
in the mainstream but also
resurrected Aerosmith's
career!
If you know anything about the hip hop scene in the UK,
you will know about High Focus. The label have been
leading the way for UK hip hop for over 4 years now, and
at the centre of all this is Fliptrix, the Head Honcho of HF
records and an amazing rapper in his own right.
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Issue 69 / 2014
HIPHOP / RNB
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