2022 featured a wide range of album releases from some of the biggest names in music. We got long awaited from SZA, Kendrick Lamar, and Beyoncé. Also, there were some albums released by newer artists that came and shook the…
Category: Hip Hop
It’s been nearly 20 years since Compton-born rapper, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, released his first mixtape in 2003. Kendrick Lamar, who originally went by the stage name K.Dot, was able to obtain a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment shortly after…
It takes a lot to make a song. Traditional song structure usually consists of a chorus, verse, and a bridge. Most people automatically assume that the artist performing the song wrote every lyric of said song, but that is not…
2021 featured some album releases from some of the biggest names in music. There were some albums that lived up to the hype and a few albums that missed the mark. 2022 is setting up to be a huge year…
A first impression can positively (or negatively) impact so many aspects of life. Similarly in music that first impression, or introductory song, can truly set the tone for an album. It has become apparent that Drake understands just how important…
Legendary rapper and music producer, Kanye West, has been in the news lately for a lot of reasons other than music. Kanye is most known for his classic studio albums that have been released over the course of the last…
2020 was a year marred with so much despair and destruction. 2020 forced all of us to reevaluate and change the way we do things whether we were ready to or not. 2020 has been a year in which uncertainty…
As the saying goes, too much much of a good thing can often times be a bad thing. The songs that are discussed in this article though are the complete antithesis of that saying. These are songs that are excruciatingly…
Not every album is Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly or Nas’ Illmatic. Not every album is critically acclaimed to be mentioned with the greatest albums of all time. In actuality, those timeless and classic albums are so infrequent. They…
It has been over 10 years now since Drake first burst onto the hip hop scene. As of 2020, Drake has released 5 studio albums, 6 mixtapes, 3 EPs, and 3 Compilation albums. Also in 2020, Drake broke the Billboard…