Das EFX “Mic Check” Rap Flow Analysis!
—by Nigel Telman If I were about a decade or so older I would say that this song—”Mic Checka,” by …
—by Nigel Telman If I were about a decade or so older I would say that this song—”Mic Checka,” by …
—By Nigel Telman As I’m sure you’re aware, J.I.D just dropped a new track today (9/19) and it’s, to put …
She’s been at #1 on the Billboard charts for dozens of weeks. Multiple readers have requested my thoughts on her. …
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(by guest author, John Mattessich) “What it is, you know, we know What it is, they know, y’all know What …
In the rap community, it is a point of pride for who is the best wordsmith in a technical sense. …
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Below is the sheet music for Kendrick Lamar’s vocals rhythms on his 2015 song, “For Free? (Interlude.)” In addition to …
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Today, I started listening to Polish Hip Hop for a graduate project I’m working on at the University of Colorado …
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So, I haven’t talked about Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony much in my writing not because I didn’t think …
After having dealt with how jazz has influenced rap in a general sense, I’ll now mention the specific, strictly musical …
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