Tag Archives: Blu

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 8 — All of That Shuffling is Making Me Sick

There are a number of reasons why I may have woken up this morning feeling sick…The late-night walk in the rain I took yesterday could have been a factor. There’s the chance that I could have come into contact with that “stomach bug” I’ve seen everybody on the internets griping about for the last […]

Duck vs. Eagle!!!

In spite of the fact that I’ve had to cut the blog back to just two days a week I will be doing my best to keep it diverse and cover as wide a variety and a as large a number of records as I can every week. That probably means that I’ll be […]

The Colo(u)rful Clango(u)r of Blu and Sin Fang Bous

As some of you probably noticed, there was no Blogarhythms post yesterday. No, this was not the result of some unusual affection for former US presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln that prevents me from blogging on their designated day of honor. But it was the start of what will be a new—hopefully […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Micah James, Cadence Weapon and Juba Dance

Like I said yesterday, on the occasions when I find something to like about contemporary Hip-Hop I really like it. And for the last couple years some of the things I’ve liked the most have been “mixtape” projects. This despite the fact that for a number of years previous a decrease in mixtape […]

Pissed Off Stef’s Out of Category, He Ain’t There Wit Y’all, He Got a Positive Vibe But Ain’t Scared of Y’all

I can admit that my far-reaching musical tastes are at least partly a product of a dissatisfaction with much of what the Hip-Hop genre’s had to offer over the last decade. Whether it was shiny-suit materialism, strict adherence to formula, macho posturing, repetitive content, or stilted songwriting, there have been a myriad of reasons […]