Matt Jost

7.5

Bru-Tang Clan (Akrobatik) :: Enter Tha 63 Chambahs

Matt JostNovember 13, 2012

That unfailing source of rap's lyrical findings,The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive, is able to provide answers where the average rap listener is stumped. Like ... Read More...

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6.5

Revolution of the Mind :: Honor in Sin

Matt JostNovember 6, 2012

Revolution of the Mind caught my attention on this year's Snowgoons double barrel "Snowgoons Dynasty." The beat for "Missing Pages" was probably the weakest of... Read More...

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9

Plan B :: Ill Manors

Matt JostOctober 30, 2012

I went into "Ill Manors" with the preconception that it was an act of atonement for "The Defamation of Strickland Banks." After hitting big with a fictional dr... Read More...

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7.5

Chino XL :: RICANstruction – The Black Rosary

Matt JostOctober 23, 2012

I always thought there was a lot of truth to the opening sequence to Big Punisher's "Capital Punishment" album (an excerpt from the movie 'Fresh'), where two k... Read More...

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7

Grand Papa Tra :: Lost in New York

Matt JostOctober 23, 2012

Mos Def taught us that hip-hop is not "some giant living in the hillside coming down to visit the townspeople." His statement was a product of the great '90s d... Read More...

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7.5

Xzibit :: Napalm

Matt JostOctober 16, 2012

Xzibit is a rap icon. Not because he's a gold and platinum recording artist or because he gave the 'rapper' archetype an unusually personable face on one of MT... Read More...

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