Patrick Taylor

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Chief Keef :: Sorry 4 the Weight

Patrick TaylorFebruary 24, 2015

Keith "Chief Keef" Cozart has been through more shit in his 19 years than most people go through in a lifetime. He grew up in the Chicago's chaotic and violent ... Read More...

MixtapeReview

7.5

SZA :: Z

Patrick TaylorFebruary 17, 2015

The last few years have seen a number of R&B singers making music that veers off of the Hot 97 path. For a long time this alternative R&B was tagged ne... Read More...

EPReview

6

Mike Will Made It :: Ransom

Patrick TaylorFebruary 10, 2015

There's been a fear in hip-hop circles for decades that white people's enjoyment of rap music would lead to us co-opting it in the same way we co-opted rock mu... Read More...

MixtapeReview

5.5

Body Count :: Manslaughter

Patrick TaylorJanuary 27, 2015

It's not that surprising that Original Gangster Ice-T would form a metal band as a side project. Ice's love of metal was evident on his first album, which samp... Read More...

LPReview

6.5

Serengeti :: Kenny Dennis III

Patrick TaylorJanuary 20, 2015

"Kenny Dennis III" marks the third time that Serengeti's mustachioed character Kenny Dennis has been given his own project. He has a long and storied fictional... Read More...

LPReview

9

D’Angelo and the Vanguard :: Black Messiah

Patrick TaylorJanuary 13, 2015

For a genre that is ostensibly all about getting down and getting it on, R&B has a significant amount of capital G Geniuses. Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder... Read More...

LPReview