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Style I’Con:Most Wanted Style: Spring Bling
May 11, 2011
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Fashion Ave. is Watching: GOINES: Something to Lose
May 10, 2011
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With this pad & pen, watch me heal thE bad within. –GOINES
To be Young, Black & Gifted, Nina Simone wrote a song about it. Aretha Franklin made it an album. An artist has constant therapy with gifts given from a higher power. How does a rapper keep his credibility in an arena of hardcore mannerisms? Three words: SOMETHING to LOSE.
As a fan of the artist, GOINES, you respect his consistency. Four mix tapes deep, you respect his evolution. Just when you thought It’s Gotta Be Black, you’ll realize June 29 he’s Something to Lose. Independent artist don’t get budgets and publicity to promote. Yet GOINES manages to keep you afloat of his arrival via his rousing status updates, always promoting with a pound. Something to Lose is vulnerable growth for GOINES’ aggressive west-coast bred, yet composed southern-raised exterior. Usually protected with sharp punch lines, “S2L” is an invitation to a psyche that embodies change. Not so much in his music delivery or illustrations, but his content. “the INTROVENTION“ is an instant blast for the mixtape’s title. You look at the cover (above) and desire to meld the words and photo. You see the void in the child’s eye, “the INTROVENTION” fills them. “Wasted Truth”, “Big Brother”, “The (in) na (me)”, “WAKE Up” and “NeVeR bE alone” does as well, with GOINES’ usual, wise & humble candor. GOINES raps, “See best raps, don’t always come from CD’s, up close & personal, the same just in 3D.” Giving a middle finger to the funny yet dismaying interlude following “Let It Go” via 2nd Quarter 2010’s Lead By Example. “WE made You”, “ThIS is It!”, “FED Up” is GOINES in touch again with his fiery resistance to mainstream, trends and conventional mindsets. The standout track, to gain, is S2L’s “Runnin”. A continuous rock rebel feel birthed during 2010’s “It’s Gotta Be Black”, “Runnin” does exactly that: RUN! Ah to be Young, Black & Gifted. That indeed is Nothing to Lose.
Pushas $That Work$:Big K.R.I.T.:Return of 4 Eva Tour
April 21, 2011
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“Never change. I can’t be Hollywood. I’m way too country. Plus I’m bumping through my neighborhood.” -Big K.R.I.T.
To do the same thing over and over creates good habits. Especially in cooking heat. Big K.R.I.T.’s recipe for a dish of Southern Success? Spending ten years perfecting his craft. Producing every song on his Return of 4eva mixtape labored a full course meal. Southern Hip-Hop created a base rue for Big K.R.I.T’s gumbo music recipe. It has been slow cooked to leave the audience happy & full. Watching his live performance, you witness the hard task were completed with a passion. This tour is his success in the kitchen.
The R4 Intro seemed crafted as a perfect intro to begin with, city to city, state to state. R4 Intro is “not easy to talk about”. You experience it.
There’s something about being underground. The innocence, the safety, the drive. Fans protect underground artist like family. The fear of them being bigger than yesterday feels like abandonment. That crossover just ain’t for everyone. Big K.R.I.T. defies that pull with a southern coast attached. In his words, “Mainstream is cool. But in my heart, forever underground.” I can dig it.
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April 19, 2011
She’s my motivation. I’m her transportation.-Wayne
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April 18, 2011
Girl you got the body of a Goddess-Roscoe Dash
Who Serves?:Wale & Black Cobain: Gangsta Go-Go
April 18, 2011
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I’m attentive. My opinion is monumental-Wale
Fashion Ave. is Watching:Dawn Richard:Eye of A Tiger
April 5, 2011
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? – The Narrator–A Tell Tale Heart
They broke up? He kept her. Betrayed the others may have questioned why. Diddy explained. I already knew why. It was the eye. An Eye of A Tiger.
Dawn Richard’s A Tell Tale Heart is more than a mixtape. It’s Dawn’s musical narration of a momentary, nameless, solo artist in tune with all pop music’s genres. As with the nameless narrator, in Edgar Allen Poe’s A Tell Tale Heart, Dawn has a secret that drives her. The watchful eye of the industry and fans may question her sanity to work with a mogul known to give talent just the blueprint for bigger and better. For Dawn, A Tell Tale Heart is the music secret that she cannot contain. Each track flirts with the simplicity of pop music while stamping her genius niche of making more than fluff records. She creates layers.
“The Intro” (The Fall) & “I Know” is Dawn, musically, in the present. The Euro-techno, laced beats and autotune layered backgrounds stay in the same neighborhood as her Dirty Money collaboration, Last Train to Paris. “Runaway”, “Vibrate”, “Biggest Fan”, and “Superman” are catchy tunes reminisce of her girl band days with group Danity Kane. They’re also a testament to Diddy’s decision to keep the songstress for the Dirty Money venture. The proof is in the production. Right?
“SuperHero” (Acapella) leaves us wondering if the song is about rescuing a person or her obvious love, Music. Initially a cappella, until the last five seconds, Dawn takes vocal leaps and bounds to save the day. The last moments weave in a track that teases fans with the possibilities of how much more the concept could be. Even with autotune her tone is undeniable. “Bulletproof”,” Let Love In”,” These Tears and “Me,Myself and Y” are the Tell Tale’s gems with their flawless production and performance. The eclectic mixtape gives limitless range. This well-rounded artist reaches for a musical throne as, maybe, her temporary home. Her blog and website lets us know that sanity may be for those with no story to tell. Poe’s Tell Tale has the narrator’s story tell of loving an elder but hating his Glaring Eye. Dawn’s A Tell Tale Heart keeps one in tune with her heart’s desire: To love the music and throw a finger to the Industry Eye. In the words of Dawn, “Let Love In”.
Echo Virgil 