Tag: Alternative Hip Hop
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Outkast ‘ATLiens’ (1996)
When Outkast released ATLiens in 1996 hip-hop was locked in a coastal war. You had New York’s materialistic swagger on one side and Los Angeles’ gangsta theatrics on the other. André 3000 and Big Boi broke the binary almost immediately, expanding Southern rap beyond Cadillac anthems into something cosmic and weird AF (especially for the…
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Chuck Strangers ‘The Boys & Girls’ (2023)
On The Boys & Girls Chuck Strangers eschews optimism and embraces pessimism in a stark way. With a brooding baritone Strangers embarks on a somewhat cryptic journey, weaving together bits and pieces of anecdotes in a way that makes it clear the aesthetic he’s shooting for is a lo-fi blueprint very similar to Earl Sweatshirt’s…
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Joey Valence & Brae ‘NO HANDS’ (2024)
NO HANDS sounds like a time machine transported the Beastie Boys to 2024 and let the boys rip with modern trance rock sounds. Joey Valence & Brae self-admittedly take a ton of inspiration from the boys from the 5 boroughs, but in the end it doesn’t really matter cause this shit is simply just fun…
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JID ‘The Forever Story’ (2022)
Penned as a spiritual follow up to his 2017 debut studio album The Never Story, JID’s 2022 cut The Forever Story is an ambitious project that chronicles the life experiences over the past 20 years that brought him to where he is today. In the vein of hip hop giants Kendrick Lamar and J Cole,…
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The Streets ‘Original Pirate Material’ (2002)
British hip hop has always been a sort of guilty pleasure of mine. As a high schooler my brother and I had a side project called “The Wankers” where we threw down silly rhymes and rapped in faux British accents, a project based off our shared love for the wonderfulness of the British accent and…
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