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2012: Favorite 50 Albums of 2012
... Blanco’s Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Prince/ss mixtape employed the dank beats of post-corporeal producers like Nightfeelings ... wearisome sandbags weighing him down. Each mixtape was thrown haphazardly overboard and reached us as a chewy mulch of ...
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Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
... narrative — the grounded follow-up to an overhyped mixtape, with all the inner and outer signifiers of career maturation on ...
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Favorite Rap Mixtapes of October 2019
... to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this ... rap tune. let the sun talk explodes that logic onto a mixtape’s worth of lyrical about-turns and deviations, each free-flowing ...
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Favorite Rap Mixtapes of January 2019
... to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this ...
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2010s: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
... a meaningful genre descriptor: Listening to this towering mixtape collaboration between Atlanta innovators Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan ... volume, marked by inventive dynamics and repetition. The mixtape was a lexicon of ear-worms. Every song was memorable, and yet our ears ...
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2010s: Favorite Music Releases ♥ Staff Picks
... only propel him so far. “Acid Rain” was the mixtape’s comedown, the moment Chance realized his heroes fell from grace ... and coming home. Technically, it’s not even a summer mixtape, having dropped in March, but I still find myself returning to it ...
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Synthesis, Synchronicity, and Singularity
... majority of the Raider Klan members’ pen-and-pixel album/mixtape covers, we also read everything from apocalyptic prophesying ...
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Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan
... the first installment of their Rich Gang: The Tour mixtape series. The whole g’damned thing slaps too, back-to-back. Real ... well. This is a surprisingly SKRONG body of work. Cop the mixtape and get to sweatin’. • Young Thug: ...
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2010s: Favorite 50 Cover Art of the Decade
... serve any real purpose when slapped on a .jpg, but a mixtape cover just doesn’t look right without one — even today. ... announcement. Maybe the folks uploading .gifs as mixtape covers back in 2012 were onto something. For now, here are ...
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2010s: Favorite 30 Labels of the Decade
... exciting new additions. Most DJs featured on the original mixtape (e.g., DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso, DJ N.K.) are going strong today, & ...