Ok so first: Unrelated to DMX, Tyler the Creator dropped a new single which means it's officially TYLER THE CREATOR ALBUM SEASON. And I'm soooooo excited, so I wore my IGOR shirt today in celebration. "LUMBERJACK" sounds so good, and I'm hyped to see what Tyler is gonna give us on this next project. I...just....Tyler … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #25: DMX’s ‘Exodus’
It's been a few days since I did the First Listen on DMX's Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998), and he hasn't gotten significantly better since then. From what I've read, he's still essentially doing the same as he was then. I've added "check on DMX" to my morning phone routine, so … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #24: DMX’s ‘It’s Dark and Hell is Hot’
It's been really sunny and warm out this week, so naturally, my Virgo-southernness drove me to go on a walk outside yesterday. And what's a walk without listening to music? A waste of time. I was getting my Grammys prediction write-up done (which was supposed to be out yesterday - I lost track of time, … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #23: D Smoke’s ‘Black Habits’
It's been a minute since I've done one of these! I've just started getting back into my album-listening groove (though I've been interrupted a few times for ~mental health-related reasons~ ), and there are some short projects that I've been listening to that are too tiny to talk about in a First Listen but perfect … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #22: Arlo Parks’s ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’
Currently writing this by candlelight (edit: it's now 5 hours later and the power is obviously back on lol); Hurricane Zeta is making its way through the South, so Georgia is getting the residual wind and rain from the storm. As soon as I woke up, the power blanked out. I figured since I couldn’t … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #21: Erykah Badu’s ‘Mama’s Gun’ & Wings’s ‘Band on the Run’
Fresh off of another bike ride! I have actively started to crave going on bike rides now lol. My body is like "please go find somewhere to escape," and after seeing Mike Pence have that fly on his head for 10 minutes during the debate yesterday, escapism was exactly what I needed. 7 miles (of … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #20: Kelis’s ‘Tasty’
I have been a fan of Masego's for a pretty long time. Going off of Spotify, the first time I started really listening to him heavily was around December 2016. I don't know exactly remember how I found out about him, but I want to say I found out about Masego the same way that … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #19: Masego’s ‘Lady Lady’
I was listening to JMSN's Blue album (2014) yesterday, which led me to re-listen through the majority of his pre-2014 discography. He has a song called "Girl (I Used to Know)" with Boldy James (from Priscilla (2012)), and that reminded me that I wanted to check out Boldy's project with the Alchemist, after seeing a … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #18: Boldy James and The Alchemist’s ‘The Price of Tea in China’
I was originally going to do a First Listen for Ghostface Killah's Fishscales (2006) for today, since that's the record I'll be receiving for September from Vinyl Me Please. But that album is too LONG, and y'all know I don't like a long project. So I decided finally listen to Lucky Daye's Painted (2019), but … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #17: Lucky Daye’s ‘Painted’
Joji is one of those folks - like always lol - who I've wanted to get into for a while, but I just hadn't given myself the opportunity. I was actually doing some work for an (hopefully lol) upcoming write-up, and Joji's name came up, so that made me even more interested in checking him … Continue reading Bite-sized Album Review #16: Joji’s ‘BALLADS 1’
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