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Abe Beame takes on the conservative war on women. FAT TAPE: APRIL http://www.mediafire.com/?60fcsbxyw6gr2w2 Full disclosure: The majority of my month was spent listening to Pluto incessantly. Jeff would not let me post 15 Youtube links, so listen to Pluto. These are the nine songs I’ve cobbled together but have more or less skimmed in between… Continue reading »
Deen is all about the process. In lieu of a proper review of El-Producto’s new effort, I’ll leave that shit to a professional because I’m lazy and I “don’t write reviews” (Ed’s note: Son Raw calls dibs), I’m going to write down some of the shit that crossed my mind while listening to “Cancer for… Continue reading »
I’d say that it’s uncanny that Mike wrote this song six months before Trayvon Martin, but only a fool would act that dirty cops are something new. I’ll spare the liberal salvo and the eye-rolling white blogger schtick where I rail against the police from behind a computer screen. The problem isn’t cops per se,… Continue reading »
El-P cluster bombs blogs with his first single, “Full Retard,” setting the odds high of him sustaining his one hot album every five year average. The beauty of this shit is that it makes you think twice about how must contemporary music safely extracts inspiration from the past. No matter how dusted and dystopian El… Continue reading »
Alternately known as the moment when Dirty Glove Bastard readers are informed of the existence of El-P. Though the worlds seem an odd match, Phillip K Dick is the best name that an Atlanta rapper never chose. Can you imagine how big he would play in the strip clubs? Five years ago, El-P and Killer… Continue reading »
1. Bonus points for the homage to the “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)” 2. Lucky Charms are delicious and are a severely underutilized rap video resource. 3. Despot doesn’t look like a Despot. Maybe Fielding Melish. 4. Das Racist will probably never be my thing but the guy in the group with the Rozay beard… Continue reading »
El-P stays on his one hot rap album every half decade average, but stops recording Cancer 4 Cure to collect an Adult Swim check. Or maybe this is on Cancer 4 Cure. No one knows right now, and I suspect that includes El-P. But rather than offer an odds and sods throwaway like too many… Continue reading »
There’s been a rash of recent articles heralding the rise of “weird rappers.” From my perspective, it’s a bizarre generalization considering that other than maybe the last half-decade, hip-hop has always been weird. The only reason why it stopped being strange was that corporate pressure forced rappers to conform to bland thug-trap stereotypes, resulting in… Continue reading »
You can interpret the song’s title in a variety of ways. The lab rat could be America, aspiring to Hovercraft away from its problems before crash landing into double-digit unemployment and Kim Kardashian debit cards. The lab rat can be a metaphor for the spastic torment of the creative process. The lab rat can be… Continue reading »
If the demise of Def Jux yields any dividends, it’ll likely stem from El-P’s new found ability to shed the burden of trying to sell records to people who don’t buy records. The new music biz model is predicated upon licensing and TV, commercial, and film placement and with Mel Gibson on a semi-permanent sabbatical… Continue reading »
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