| Alpoko Don & Scarface Move in Silence | February 21, 2014 |
Max Bell only trick or treats when Halloween falls on a weekend. On The ‘Ol Soul EP Alpoko Don elevated pen and table raps to heights, and depths, seldom heard. It was a marked improvement from the comparatively lackluster mixtape Plugged In he’d released prior, which suffered from fairly generic and tepid production. Now that Alpoko Don […]
| Question in the Form of An Answer: An Interview with Alpoko Don | January 13, 2014 |
After serving almost a decade in prison, Alpoko Don came home to Greenville, South Carolina in May of 2012 and started banging on his porch with a pen and rapping to it. He uploaded the videos to Youtube under the name Dondada and they quickly racked up millions of views. If you love drumming your […]
| Lord’s Day: Alpoko Don’s Blues Raps | August 21, 2013 |
Earlier this year, Alpoko Don dropped the Ol’ Soul EP, which most dozed on because he presumably has no publicist, manager, or label. He’s also from Greenville, South Carolina, a city most famous musically for serving as the site of the last Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. I imagine the truth is quite different. There are inevitably […]
