Tag Archives: Kanye West

The “Sound of Kudoro” Is “the Titts”

Blame the internet, or M.I.A., but I can’t remember when there was so much international cross-pollination going on in dance music. Yeah, back in the day the Brits took House and Techno and made them their own, spawning the Rave culture that eventually found its way back to our shores, bringing us Drum-N-Bass in […]

Time Has Come Today

Obviously getting older is cause for a bit of introspection. For some it might even be a source of panic, worry or depression. For others it’s simply a passage of time. For me it’s an across-the-board experience, but the chronology of my experiences has always been important to me. During my relatively short […]

The French vs. The British

Like I said yesterday, the search for new and unproven talent–and the flood of wannabes in that respect–continues in a seemingly never-ending fashion. But there are a few established–both very well established and not-so-well established–artists I consistently check for regardless. The name Pharrell Williams–along with that of his partner Chad Hugo–is one of […]

The Audacity of Hope

My friends and I ascribe to a little known doctrine called “The Dreadlock Theory” which states that any rapper who rose to prominence while sporting dreadlocks will, should they ever cut their locks, lose their artistic vigor. It’s far from scientific, and I won’t name any names, but an examination of the history of […]

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 […]