3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z and Nas in the 2000s
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (2001) – A It really was a blueprint. Not just of things to come but rather because within the album’s 64 minutes, The Blueprint covers a […]
Category Archives: 2000s
3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z in the Early 2000s
The Black Album (2003) – A- I think I speak for all of us when I say that we were entertained, Jay-Z. I mean, how could you not be? The […]
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Wherein Jay-Z’s rapping takes a dark turn for the worst. He does fine on opener “What We Talkin’ About”, but I expect significantly more beat-wise from a combined team of […]
3 Album Reviews: Girls and Guitars (Jay Som, Laura Marling, Grouper)
Jay Som – Everybody Works (2017) – B+ Starts off just fine, with “Lipstick Stains” drifting in and out of focus; washes of acoustic guitar and horns providing ballast to […]
3 Album Reviews: The South (Goodie Mob’s best, OutKast’s Worst, UGK)
Goodie Mob – Soul Food (1995) – A- Some of the most paranoid lyrics and beats ever: Big Gipp’s only response to police brutality is silence, Cee Lo convinces himself […]
3 Album Reviews: Mountain Goats and Sufjan Steves (Internal Apocalypse)
Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015) – A- When Goths was announced with the all-caps-ed “NO GUITARS,” my first thought was “?!” and my second thought was that John […]
Talib Kweli – Eardrum
1. Hey Talib? Given the shoddy quality of your solo output, maybe you shouldn’t be slinging around stuff like “Only using 10 percent of my mental on instrumentals” on the […]
