Tag Archives: Benga

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]

Step In the Name of Dub

Yesterday I equated vicelounge’s “Never Fall” to a hybridization of minimalist slow-jam R&B and the sonorous low-end of UK Dubstep. The irony of making such a comparison when I’d jokingly predicted R. Kelly would trade in the “Chicago Step” for Dubstep in a blog-post title last Summer amused me slightly. But more than anything it […]