Start The New Year Off With Some Free Music

Check out this 11 minute Mix: Chauncey Johnson – NYE BOOTY BANGER MINI / MEGAMIX
[Via: Chauncey's Tumblr Blog]

Peep this Free DL from Rick Whispers (of Albany Hip-Hop fame). [Via Rick's blog].

Weiss of Passion + LATimes fame gives us his Best Albums of the Year List, along with some inline mp3 downloads. He also uses really big words in his Kanye West album review… (I say that in a loving, hope to have his lexicon one day, sort of way):

Heartbreaks & 808s is Kanye West’s Electric Circus. It’s his Love Below.  His Life of Chris Gaines.. His Trans–except done directly in the prime of a white-hot career. It’s “emo pop.” It’s too much like Tears for Fears. It’s not enough like his first album. It’s got too much techno. It’s not techno enough. His production is inspired by Gary Numan. No, it’s inspired by El-P. But it’s not hip-hop! Why can’t he sing? His use of auto-tune is stupid. No, it’s a brilliant way to project a robotic and detached despondency. It’s artistic overreach. It’s a genius in his prime following his muse in whatever warped direction it takes him. It’s a work wrought by tragedy. It’s the product of self-indulgence. The lyrics are fourth grade poetry. The album sounds incondite and muddled. Its hasty construction lends it an immediacy and raw power. It’s ephemeral at best. It’s a Zeitgeist tapping, tour de force, that captures the personal and political at their lowest ebb. It’s a Rorschach blot designed to elicit every possible emotion and opinion. It may be all these things combined. It may be none of them. It may be the best album of the year. It is.

(And he’s on the ‘Ye payroll – allegedly, j/k).

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Permalink Posted in: hip-hop, music January 1, 2009