Tag: Nas
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Fight The Power 2020
Again very timely – Public Enemy revisit their classic with a new posse of Nas, Black Thought, Rapsody, Jahi, and YG, with Questlove and is that DJ Premiere as well?. A brilliant performance, and also sad because it shows how little has changed since 1989. “Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp”…
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An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space
The Beatles back catalogue is a gift that keeps giving, even when you’re the most jaded, some outtake, some stem, remix, or even mashup drags you back in. I was so OVER Beatles mashups especially with hiphop til I heard this. It starts off like every mashup album you’ve heard before (especially Danger Mouse’s Grey…
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There But for the Grace of God Go I
I’m really loving The Get Down, a semi-fictional series about hip-hop in 70’s Bronx via Baz Luhrmann. I don’t know why it’s got mixed reviews because unlike other shows, it has Grandmaster Flash, Nas and Kurtis Blow on board, as well as Furious 4 advising and although there are some minor slips (I’d have gotten…