February 2012
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SPIN: Heems - 'Nehru Jackets' →
no-trivia: Reviewed Heems’ ridiculously great, Queens rap-indebted mixtape for SPIN. It was given the “essential” tag, which it totally deserves. There are a few words about Kool A.D.’s The Palm Wine Drinkard in there as well. Dunno, I feel like people are really underrating Nehru Jackets. Go back to it if you thought it was “too long” or whatever. FINE, listening again.  All I really want is a...
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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Jan 11th
Better Late Than Never
These were my 20 favorite albums of 2011, with a bunch more tossed on at the end that spent a bunch of time in my ears as well. woooooo 1.) G-Side- Cohesive… The One  2.) Danny Brown- XXX 3.) Fucked Up- David Comes to Life 4.)The Cave Singers- No Witch 5.) DJ Quik- Book of David 6.) Deer Tick- Divine Providence 7.) Dum Dum Girls- Only In Dreams 8.) ScHoolboy Q- Setbacks 9.) The Rapture- In...
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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“3. EMA, “California” EMA dubbed her signature song a “rap ballad” and she...”
– Spin’s incomprehensible love letter to EMA. I love this song. I see they were trying to do something loose and cool here. But what do these two sentences actually MEAN?! “Time-laps corner-boy soliloquy”?! (via judyxberman) And the award for worst two sentences written this year goes to… (via...
Dec 9th
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SPIN: 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011. →
no-trivia: I helped with this list and wrote the blurbs for J. Rocc, J. Cole, Kristmas, Clams Casino, and Mouse On Tha Track. I think it’s pretty unimpeachable. Indeed. The list is great. Got to drop blurbs on some of my favorite albums of the year as well (shady blaze, gibbs, cities aviv)
Dec 9th
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November 2011
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Here’s a bunch of download links to some of the albums included in the list @notrivia and I made for the December SPIN issue 2 Chainz- Codeine Cowboy http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/12727/tity_boi_codeine_cowboy.html Alley Boy- Purgatory http://www.datpiff.com/Alley-Boy-Purgatory-mixtape.189841.html A$AP Rocky- Deep Purple http://www.mediafire.com/?id7kc7ob6bimx30 Big K.R.I.T.-...
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October 2011
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ListenThe Big Pink- “Stay Gold” (Araabmuzik...
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September 2011
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“And I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women.”
– Echo Chamber: James Blake | News | Pitchfork I guess somebody wasn’t at Lollapalooza? (via desnoise) YES.  I was waiting for someone to say this.  Can someone just show Blake a crowd photo of Electric Daisy or something? James, couldn’t you just say, “I personally don’t like...
Sep 28th
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Cities Aviv- “Araw” (20110
Sep 28th
SKINS VS. BLOUSES
Why start beef with Drake?  Maybe it’s at the behest of his boss?  Really, Pusha supposedly has an album coming out on Def Jam, so the obvious, smart thing to do when gearing up to promote a major label rap album is take shots at rap’s biggest, softest star.  What’s Drake going to do?  Have Rick Ross leave a bunch of candy bar wrappers on Pusha’s lawn? I’d much...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Jul 21st
I CANNOT LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT FLOCKA
drinkbleachmynigga: where will i hear somebody say “FLEX” with all of their might where will i hear ad-libs that are as long as the bars he is rapping dj holiday and trap-a-holics will not be able to ruin nearly as many mixtapes with their yelling and 183 decibel tags i just don’t even know what to say, what to do i feel like a 14-year old girl with a tumblr with a flowery cursor who longs...
Jul 9th
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tumblinerb: Young Chris f/ Freeway - “Street Secrets” (2011) This is what it would sound like if Afrika Islam tried to make a dubstep track in the Ice-T era but hadn’t yet figured out sidechaining. #ripsnotboogie
Jul 1st
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June 2011
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Jun 28th
P4K: Cities Aviv - Digital Lows →
no-trivia: Best rap record no one’s talking or even really blogging about. This one’s particularly relevant given all the Memphis fetishism going on. Well, here’s a guy from Memphis who internalizes his hometown’s music history in interesting, never derivative ways. Imagine that! Download it here. Everybody cop. 
Jun 23rd
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BLESS SQUADDA B'S HART
grovestmaurice: he made all of his and Main Attrakionz’s mixtapes available again on datpiff now downloading insane amounts of great music http://www.datpiff.com/profile/Green_Ova_Djs/mixtapes/
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BALLERS EVE NYC: Ballers Eve Exclusive! ST 2... →
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May 2011
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Waking Lights- Where It All Began (The Rabbit Hole/2010) Get serious Coyote Bones vibes from these New Jersey guys.  Kinda campfire singalong things popping then every once in a while some beautiful strings or gut-punch guitars appear on their tracks.
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ListenDavid Bazan- Wolves at the Door (Strange...
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May 16th
Fam-Lay f/ Project Pat "Money Makin Trick"
spaceagehustle: The production really works here, borrowing both from Pat’s Memphis gospel menace and Fam-Lay’s Neptunes-infused minimalist melodies. The most soulful track I’ve heard about prostitution this year. -SM (via DGB) Always reblog new Fam-Lay.  Plus did you read that? Project Pat is on this track! This is an automatic thing… download, download, download....
May 12th
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Vid for the single from the upcoming Coathangers album Larceny & Old Lace.  It’s really, really, really good.  The album and this creeeeepy video.  Gonna go have daymares now. suicidesqueezerecords: The Coathangers have premiered their awesome new video for “Hurricane,” the lead single from their forthcoming album Larceny & Old Lace at Pitchfork TV.  Directed by Mike Moore for...
May 5th
ListenThe Hood Internet- VCR feat. Freddie Gibbs, Telli...
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April 2011
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