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Start With Your Musical Vision Before you buy anything, determine your musical position. Do you envision yourself playing classical music, making electronic music, or playing blues? The type of instrument that will suit you will depend on the genre and style you prefer. The needs of a potential producer are… Read more »

Nashville rapper Starlito (Jermaine Eric Shute) has been in the game for a long time. He was still in his teens when he dropped “Grey Goose” in 2003, but the 2005 remix with Lil Wayne and Yo Gotti really took him to the next level. If I’m being honest though… Read more »

The inconsistency of Wikipedia’s “notability” policy is vexing. I’m not saying Bang Belushi should be removed — I’ll get to why not in a moment — I’m saying that better known rappers HAVE been challenged for “lack of notability” and/or removed from their pages. The idea of a comprehensive global… Read more »

There are only two D-Nice albums — “Call Me D-Nice” and “To Tha Rescue.” In the words of his Boogie Down Productions cohort KRS-One, “Why Is That?” One source alleges that Derrick Jones and Jive Records clashed over the creative direction of D’s music, and that rather than fight them… Read more »

The differences between Chicago drill, Brooklyn drill and London drill are increasingly smaller and smaller. To me it’s all drill so long as it has a few defining characteristics — dank bass, gritty realism, electronic production, and a propensity for violent fantasies. The accents or the slang may change a… Read more »

It’s impossible to start a review of “I Can Do What You Can Do” without telling you the facts. Fact number one – Dave Blunts wrote “H*** H****r” for Kanye West. If you weren’t already of the opinion West was a sick man in desperate need of help, that song… Read more »