Playlist, Video

Weekend Visuals

Press rewind. These are the videos we were watching this year.

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Album Review, New Music

Big Sean and Jhene Aiko’s “TWENTY88” Bears All

TWENTY88, the collabo project from Jhene Aiko and Big Sean, is a concept album on love. That’s the overarching storyline boiled down to a clause. But Jhene and Sean are prone to delve much deeper in their music, using the Ja-Rule-Ashanti rap–and-R&B hybrid here as a blueprint. Showing off their emotional intelligence is where the […]

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Emcee

The Friday Five

This week’s Friday Five has got you covered in all states of turnt up-ness that you’re looking for to make sure your weekend starts off lit. Whether you’re in the mood for anything from Yeezy, Drizzy or even Vic Mensa, trust that this five delivers. Hit the jump to listen.

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Emcee, Video

Peep This: Big Sean ft. Drake and Kanye West – “Blessings”

The year just tipped into March and three of rap’s biggest names already either dropped a project or they’re about ready to: Big Sean released “Dark Sky Paradise”, Kanye announced that “So Help Me God” is about 80 percent done and Drake released an album/mixtape out of nowhere, and is supposedly dropping another later this […]

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2014's Best: The Top Ten Hip-Hop Songs
Emcee, Lifestyle

2014’s Best: The Top Ten Hip-Hop Songs

Hip-hop’s relationship with 2014 can be whittled down to a single word: viral. A majority of the hottest songs of the year easily became the biggest not only due to radio play, but through a one-two punch of top shelf production and slick word play, these songs possessed a mass appeal that kept them on […]

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Emcee

2013’s Best: Nova’s Top Albums

I’m really sorry that I’ve neglected you this year, hip-hop.  New waves of UK dance pop, PBR’n’B, and the budding chill-trap movement have distracted me from my deep roots with you.  Songs by French Montana and 2 Chainz were shrug-while-fist-twisting worthy when I was at the club, but it made me cringe when I realized […]

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Emcee

2013’s Best: Sash’s Top Hip Hop Songs

2013 was an interesting year for Hip-Hop. Aside from it being the year of the mixtape, a number of major Hip-Hop singles came out this year, pleasing both older and younger generations of fans. This year, more than any other, we were able to witness an interesting juxtaposition of releases from Hip-Hop’s veteran and rookie […]

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Emcee

One Year Later: good kid, m.A.A.d city

It’s been a year since Kendrick Lamar’s critically lauded major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, took the hip hop world by storm. Without question, the album is one of the successful hip hop releases of the past five years, and it has been deemed an insta-classic by rap die-hards and casual music fans […]

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Emcee, Media, Video

The Friday Five

Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control” jolted the industry earlier this week and brought about a tremendous level of buzz that hasn’t been felt in hip hop for years.  The varied reactions and sparked debates were refreshing to a scene that’s needed a good wake up call for quite some time.  Amidst all the […]

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Emcee, Media

Jam On It: Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, & Jay Electronica – Control

Look, by now you’ve probably gotten wind of the mountain-moving, earth-splitting, and overall game changing verse that Kendrick Lamar dropped on Big Sean’s new track, “Control”.  If you aren’t up on it yet, click through and listen.  This track apparently didn’t make Big Sean’s final cut for his upcoming album, “Hall Of Fame”, due to […]

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