I proudly present the songs of Pop Mythology and its wonderful collaborators from FAWM (Feb. Album Writing Month) 2015. Live long and prosper.
Read More »FAWM 2015 Week 3: my favorite songs (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Write a Song
Here are my favorite songs from Week 3 of FAWM and guess what? I'm on my own list!
Read More »Lizabett Russo teams up with UK rapper Abstrkt in jamming new single ‘Wind Down’
When Lizabett Russo's voice is taken out of its usual folksy context and situated in an atmospheric hip-hop production as it is here, it highlights a certain chanteuse-like quality of her voice even more, and the result is seductive and intriguing.
Read More »Modern hip-pop is stupid
It’s been said enough, so I’ll keep it short. I just want to say it, though. Modern hip-pop is stupid. As in dumb. Unintelligent. Simple, as in Forrest Gump.
Read More »5 amazing hip-hop artists you’ve never heard (thanks to Lil Wayne)
I will not argue for the following artists. I don’t need to: they speak for themselves. But I defy any person who considers himself a hip-hop aficionado - or any fan of rhythm, music and lyrics - to listen to the albums mentioned here and say they don’t contain the same levels – if not more - of complexity, depth and creativity as any mainstream artist like Kanye West or Lil Wayne.
Read More »Is the Jay-Z and Samsung deal the Holy Grail of sellouts?
Jay-Z’s 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' is the exact opposite of a sellout album; it sounds like every other Jay-Z album. It may as well have come out in 2003. Samsung didn’t make Jay-Z sacrifice his integrity anymore than those previous endorsement deals did. No, Jay-Z sold out years ago.
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