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• Yelawolf - Radioactive donderdag 01 december 2011

  The Alabama rapper’s star is sure to shine for the foreseeable based on this debut.

  With a catalogue stretching back to 2005’s self-released collection Creek Water, it’s perhaps surprising that Alabama-based rapper Yelawolf (born Michael Atha) has taken until now to reveal his debut album proper. (There have been mixtapes and EPs, but nothing more substantial.) But as its generally positive reception stateside illustrates, Radioactive has largely been worth the wait. With a plethora of guest vocalists crowding the credits, as well as a diverse array of production talents on board, it risks being a case of too many cooks – but the myriad styles just about gel together, enough to ensure that the central voice is worth focusing on throughout.

• Beastie Boys - Ill Communication donderdag 03 november 2011

  Their classic 1994 set that better encapsulates the Beasties than any other LP.

  While it was far from disappointing, the Beasties’ third LP, 1992’s Check Your Head, lacked a lot of the wow-factor that’d graced their sampladelic masterpiece of 1989, Paul’s Boutique. A return to the New York trio’s scrappy punk sound, prominent on early demos, Check Your Head was solid, competent, mixing the band’s trademark rhyme schemes with bombastic percussion and over-amplified riffs. But for their next set, messrs Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA would have to step their game up.

• Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces maandag 19 september 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Distraction Pieces' van 'Scroobius Pip'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Diagrams - Diagrams vrijdag 05 augustus 2011

  Former 'folktronica' maverick branches out in style

  The latest project of erstwhile Tunng co-frontman Sam Genders, Diagrams offer a lavish, folk-tinged take on contemporary pop, full of deftly executed collisions between acoustic instruments and discreet laptop sound design – or ‘folktronica’ as it was once clumsily dubbed. It’s not, frankly, a million miles from Tunng, especially given how intrinsic Genders’ velvety Derbyshire brogue and songwriter’s craft, both very much the focus here, were to so many of his former band’s signature recordings.

• Def P & The Beatbusters - Hard Op Weg woensdag 18 mei 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Hard Op Weg' van 'Def P & The Beatbusters'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Snoop Dogg - Doggumentary vrijdag 08 april 2011

  Album proper or not, there’s no denying this is greatly entertaining stuff.

  To enjoy the 11th Snoop Dogg album you have to do a little surrendering to the modern world, whether you like it or not.

• Gikkels - Uit M'n Cocon Gekropen zondag 19 december 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Uit M'n Cocon Gekropen' van 'Gikkels'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy maandag 06 december 2010

  Met een pretentieuze titel als My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy en diens arty albumhoes moet je wel een rapper van formaat zijn om de hoge verwachtingen die je oproept waar te maken. Kanye West slaagt daar met vlag en wimpel in.

• Subtitle - Brief Bloom woensdag 24 november 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Brief Bloom' van 'Subtitle'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager maandag 15 november 2010

  A disappointing sequel despite Cudi’s innovative tendencies.

  In the often macho world of hip hop, Kid Cudi stands as a strange customer. The 26-year-old Cleveland rapper is, to all intents and purposes, an introverted gawky, geek.

• Jay-Z - The Black Album donderdag 11 november 2010

  An essential experience, and quite probably the peak of the rapper’s continuing career.

  "This here is the victory lap, and I’m leaving…"

• Die Antwoord - $O$ dinsdag 02 november 2010

  Confrontational South African trio strut the thin line between madness and genius.

  "Is this Die Antwoord terrible, like the worst thing ever, or the most amazing thing in the entire universe?" That is the rhetorical question posed on the press release for this debut Die Antwoord long-player by the group’s snarling MC and figurehead, Ninja (or Watkin Tudor Jones as his mum knows him). Inevitably, perhaps, the answer lies somewhere in between; but that $O$ struts the thin line between madness and genius, or more accurately between provocative wilfulness and striking innovation, is indubitable.

• Kanye West - The College Dropout maandag 25 oktober 2010

  An audacious stunt that only one with his towering ego would dare attempt.

  Hard to believe, but there was a time before Kanye West – an age where we had to make do without this unshakably confident MC/producer, with his grand media pronouncements, goofy Twitter philosophy, and reliably excellent hip hop records. That Kanye today is perhaps hip hop’s most high-profile face is a lot to do with 2004’s The College Dropout.

• Rick Ross - Teflon Don vrijdag 06 augustus 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Teflon Don' van 'Rick Ross'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Rick Ross - Teflon Don dinsdag 20 juli 2010

  In the past two years, Miami MC Rick Ross has been dissed by 50 Cent, mocked as a phony gangsta when photos surfaced of his tenure as a corrections officer, and slapped with a $10 million lawsuit by his namesake, reformed drug kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross. He's also made the best records of his career. Here Ross surrounds himself with big-name guests (Kanye West, T.I.) and pours out smart rhymes over sleek, synth-heavy beats. The old Ross was mired in drug-rap clichés; today, he sounds easeful, letting his basso profundo do the heavy lifting in the Jay-Z collabo "Free Mason," and gloating with wit and goofiness, of which he once seemed incapable.

• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty dinsdag 06 juli 2010

  Big Boi's first official solo album is a stunning reminder of the OutKast rapper's hall-of-fame skills: He's got an inimitably slick and speedy flow and a personality bigger and more forceful than anything his producers can throw at him, from Scott Storch's clobbering electro funk ("Shutterbugg") to Lil Jon's eerie crunk ("Hustle Blood"). Big Boi is, as ever, steeped in pimp mythology. ("Tailored alligators/Soufflé/Escalade," he raps in "You Ain't No DJ.") But in truth he's less pimp than craftsman, packing more style – and more substance – into his four-minute- long songs than other rappers deliver in an entire album.

• Tobacco - Maniac Meat woensdag 30 juni 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Maniac Meat' van 'Tobacco'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• The Roots - How I Got Over dinsdag 29 juni 2010

  The seminal hip hop group’s ninth album is another classic-in-waiting.

  The cover gives the title away. On the front of The Roots’ ninth studio album 11 silhouetted people run from darkness into bright light. It’s as if Philadelphia’s finest rap crew are saying, “This is how we got over bad times: with the help from our nearest and dearest.” While that sentiment might seem glib, it comes alive on this staggering record.

• Giggs - Let Em Ave It vrijdag 25 juni 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Let Em Ave It' van 'Giggs'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• ML - Hip-Hop For Dummies woensdag 23 juni 2010

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Hip-Hop For Dummies' van 'ML'. De track lijst is als volgt.