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Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • The Best Songs of January 2022

    Here are the Apple Music & Spotify versions of the playlist of my favorite songs from the month of January. Shoutout to Bloodmoney Perez & Messiah Musik for having my favorite album of the month. Anyway, check these tracks out and let me know which one is your favorite, as well as what your favorite album from…

  • Album Review | Wu-Tang Clan – The W

    This album was released on November 20th in 2000. I’m not really sure how I’m gonna feel about this album. I never really see people talking about it, so I’m not sure how the reception was. I’m assuming it’s nowhere near as good as the first couple Wu albums just because this is the first…

  • Album Review | Bloodmoney Perez & Messiah Musik – Second Hand Accounts

    This album was released on January 28th this year. Bloodmoney Perez is an artist with whom I’m only slightly familiar. I covered his A Hundred Disorders EP last year, and I loved it, so I’m hoping my listening experience with this new album will have a similar outcome. I think he’s a really great writer,…

  • Album Review | S. Reidy – An Album, With Songs

    This album was released on January 28th this year. S. Reidy is an artist I’ve covered a couple times on this blog before. I’ve enjoyed pretty much everything I’ve heard from him, so I’m expecting this to hopefully be his best work to date. I’ve enjoyed all of the singles I’ve heard from it, so…

  • Album Review | Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele

    This album was released on February 8th in the year of our lord 2000. This is one of the few Ghostface Killah albums that I’ve actually heard already, and it’s widely regarded as one of his best albums. At this point in the Wu-Tang marathon, a lot of guys were dropping subpar albums, so it’ll…

  • Album Review | Che` Noir – Food for Thought

    This album was released on January 21st this year. At one point, Che` Noir was one of the most promising newer artists to me. The Thrill of the Hunt 2 made it into my top 5 albums of 2019, and I still love that album to this day. However, the projects that she’s released since…

  • Album Review | Raekwon – Immobilarity

    This album was released on November 16th in the year of our lord 1999. I’m not really expecting this album to be that good to be honest. I obviously loved Raekwon’s first album, but this album has a far less positive reputation. Based on what I’ve seen people saying, I’m expecting the production to be…

  • Album Review | Earl Sweatshirt – SICK!

    This album was released on January 14th this year. I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about this record. The last project from Earl that I fully enjoyed was his Solace EP, but everything he’s put out since then has been mediocre at best. With that said, I actually really loved the first single from…

  • Album Review | East Hampton Polo Boys – Winter Catalogue

    This album was released on January 14th this year. The East Hampton Polo Boys are a duo comprised of MC Scorcese Lorde Jones and producer Panels. Their first album, Summer Catalogue, was actually the first Scorcese project that I ever checked out, and I enjoyed it a lot, so I have no reason to believe…

  • Album Review | AJ Suede & Televangel – Metatron’s Cube

    This album was released on January 14th. I’ve never heard a song by AJ Suede, so I’m not really familiar with him, but I wanted to check this album out for a couple reasons. First of all, I think the cover art is fucking awesome. That’s definitely my favorite album cover of the year so…

  • Album Review | Jay Cinema – Out the Loop

    This album was released on January 8th this year. Jay Cinema released a pretty good album with WilfMerson at the beginning of 2021, and I’m hoping this latest project is even better. He also dropped a project with a producer named FROwNS in May last year, which was okay. I definitely prefer What You Need…

  • Album Review | U-God – Golden Arms Redemption

    This album was released on October 19th in the year of our lord 1999. I’m just gonna be honest. I don’t think I’m gonna like this album. U-God is probably my least favorite member of the Wu-Tang Clan. It’s between him and Masta Killa for sure. U-God has just never been that interesting of an…