![]() ![]() ![]() This is a perfectly perfect thing!” But here’s the heart of the matter, for me. The way Ye´made MBDTF as an experiment in saying “See! This is what you guys want.” And everyone was all like, “Yeah, you’re right. I mean, there’s just this lingering feeling in my heart that he never presented me with the masterpiece my fandom demands. Did I mention “The Boogie Man Song” is one of the best buddha-head love tomes of all-time? Like, is this even still a serious question? Plus, he’s got a Grammy.īut after the several shining examples of supernatural rhymes he hit us with on Black on Both Sides, Black Star, The Ecstatic and the freestyles (my god, do you remember those?), he never quite put it together the way I’d like. At least two classic albums: (Yeah, I’m sayin’ The Ecstatic was a classic, if only for its trite ability to make you feel irrelevant and unsophisticated). Let’s check the tale of the tape:Ī serious film career: (Two of which, “A Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” and “The Italian Job” were quirky, weirdo philo-comedies). But, with Black on Both Sides turning the age of a pimply teenager Monday, we had to posit on the effectiveness of his career. You know, the time when quote-unquote Hip Hop heads could look back and recall with great precision how a song made them feel like Tommy jackets and Timberland boots would last forever. Without further delay, here’s this week’s “Stray Shots.” Has Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Ever Rapped To His Potential?Īndre: Mighty mighty Mos may be the most underrated emcee from the so-called Golden Age of Hip Hop. Aside from tackling stray topics, we may invite artists and other personalities in Hip Hop to join the conversation. Collectively we serve as HipHopDX’s Features Staff. And the “we” in question is myself, Omar Burgess and Andre Grant. Rappers beef with each other 140 characters at a time, entire mixtapes (and their associated artwork) can be released via Instagram, and sometimes these events require a rapid reaction.Īs such, we’re reserving this space for a weekly reaction to Hip Hop’s current events. Since our blog section went the way of two-way pagers and physical mixtapes, Twitter, Instagram and Ustream have further accelerated the pace of current events in Hip Hop. After a few years, a couple redesigns and the collective vision of three different Editors-In-Chief, blogs are back. Through Meka, Brillyance, Aliya Ewing and others, readers got unfiltered opinions on the most current topics in and beyond Hip Hop. Just a fond farewell to a friend.Once upon a time in a universe far, far away, HipHopDX used to host blogs. And as the curtain closed on bey and his red and white rose pedal adorned stage, just after previewing his genre-destroying final album, Negus In Natural Person, he made sure we knew it wasn’t goodbye. In his return, bey just wants to remind us that we can’t duck our ills by distracting ourselves with four to five inch screens, that 2017 will be just as trying as this miserable year has been and that we are as powerful as we believe him to be.Įvery moment of last night’s performance was as much a dedication to us, the listener, as it was a celebration of the time he’s shared with us. He railed at the audience for their distance, hiding behind “robots” in their pockets (cell phones,) plead with us that our strongest and most reliable machines were our natural ones, pointing to his head, rubbing on his heart. Hope, ironically enough, is one of the central sentiments of this final run. There was even a little love for the A-1s with the inclusion of Black On Both Sides standouts “Hip-Hop” and “Umi Says,” a track that had bey visibly and audibly emotional before launching into its hopeful hook. ![]()
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