Tag Archives: Black Thought

Only Built 4 Polk County?

A lot was said in Friday’s Records at Random post dedicated to the 13th (despite its rep thirteen is one of my lucky numbers) anniversary of Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx about the qualities I admire a Hip-Hop album. Dirty sample-based beats imbued with the crackle-and-pop of vinyl, emcees who are creative, intelligent, […]

“Blown to Hell… Crash… I’m the Last Splash”

The internets (and the blogosphere specifically) is notorious for being a fast-paced flood of information where all that matters is getting it fast, getting it first and then forgetting about it as soon as the next “it” comes along. But personally, I like to take my time with this blog shit. Sure, my broadband connection […]