“I have a plethora of material that deserved a presentation larger than a mixtape,” Little Brother’s Rapper Big Pooh told allhiphop.com in a recent interview. As a result, Pooh developed a cutesy way to release three separate and slightly varied versions of his new The Delightful Bars “street” album, all named after decadent snacks (Candy […]
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Kooley High with K-Salaam: Kooley Is High mixtape
If hip-hop is dead in the Triangle, Raleigh’s Kooley High might just be the grave robbers that can shake the corpse back into life. The criminality doesn’t stop there, though: Given the strength of the six-member Kooley High crew, there’s a little bit of con-artistry involved. Indeed, while Kooley High has been picking up the […]
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Live: Cut Copy Paste
Cut Copy Tuesday, March 24 Cat’s Cradle The last time I ate at a Chuck E. Cheese, it was for a frat brother’s 25th birthday gathering. I remember it fondly, how a pal and I pulled off a plot to smash a piece of cake in the birthday boy’s face. But what I remember most […]
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Cesar Comanche’s Die in Your Lap—D.O.T.F.W.
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. If, like us, you’re still scratching your head while contemplating the possible symbolism of Raleigh emcee Cesar Comanche’s last album title, Squirrel and The Aces, just stop. Comanche’s fourth and most recent LP, Die in Your LapD.O.T.F.W., leaves little room […]
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Confidential to K-Hill, but you other rappers should read it, too.
On the Triangle’s preeminent hip-hop message board, “The Lawn,” local rapper/producer K-Hill recently voiced his opinion regarding the lack of coverage that I’ve been giving to North Carolina hip-hop in the music pages of the Independent Weekly. The comment stemmed from a thread announcing a show featuring local R&B songstress Keisha Shontelle. “Who the fuck […]
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KAZE gets paid
A few weeks ago, I ran across a picture of long-time Chapel Hill emcee KAZE and HOT 97’s Peter Rosenberg sitting down in what looked like some sort of closed business meeting with another rapper guy named Knonam. It turns out that the little sit-down was one of the final meetings in the SRC/Loud.com $100,000 […]
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L.E.G.A.C.Y. & DJ Flash’s N.C. Chainsaw Massacre
It’s hard to say who’s to blame, but Durham rapper L.E.G.A.C.Y. epitomizes North Carolina hip-hop’s horde of missed marketing opportunities: Early in the game, L.E.G.A.C.Y. was known as the Jim Morrison, wanna-be-rock-star of local rap. He’d arrive at shows dressed completely in red or in metal-studded leather belts, crawl around the stage in the clutch […]
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Edgar Allen Floe’s The Streetwise LP
With his bassy voice, Triangle rapper Edgar Allen Floethe soi-disant “Justus League GZA”nearly made one of my ex-girlfriends leave me to find a man with a bit more boom in his voice. It did a harsh number on my ego, sure, but who could deny the gentlemanly impression Floe and producer 9th Wonder left when […]
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Murs: Watching the election, listening to hip-hop
Los Angeles rapper Murs was due on a plane bound for his hometown at 6 a.m. Tuesday morningjust four hours after delighting a crowd at Cat’s Cradleto cast his vote in the presidential election. He would then get back on a plane to make Wednesday’s Charlotte date on his ambitious Murs For President tour. It’s […]
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The Foreign Exchange’s Leave It All Behind
Literary critics call it intentional fallacybasically, that the author’s intentions do not matter and that it’s up to the readers to determine a work’s meaning. That said, we are holding Nicolay Rook and Phonte Coleman responsible for making an album that leads us straight into the upcoming presidential election. Indeed, in many ways, Leave It […]