-
(Was) Popular
- VH1 Soul is dead, long live Centric posted on March 29, 2010
- The ten most popular indie-rap artists… posted on January 11, 2011
- Digable Planets fracture, cancel tour posted on March 22, 2009
- Superlists!: Top Ten Femcees posted on March 24, 2009
- The Plug One Q&A: Flying Lotus posted on June 10, 2008
- Review: Atmosphere, “To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy” posted on September 9, 2010
- R.I.P. Paper Thin Walls posted on August 29, 2008
- Zion-I tour dates posted on February 25, 2009
- Vibe’s demise posted on July 1, 2009
- Why Plug One survives posted on March 17, 2010
Categories
Archives
America's Most Blunted
Tag Archives: Sa-Ra
Uh oh, Taz Arnold’s trippin’ again
I spotted this video over at Okayplayer.com. As you know, I am a big fan of Sa-Ra Creative Partners, even when it comes to their coked-out material. But “South$ide Blood Cuzn” is kind of a mess. It’s bliss funk that’s … Continue reading
A beautiful mine: Flying Lotus
I find it hard to embrace the new Flying Lotus album, Cosmogramma. It’s not as if it’s a bad album — it’s great, in fact. But the secret is out about FlyLo. He’s not mine anymore. I wasn’t one of … Continue reading
Posted in Greatest Hits, News
Tagged Adult Swim, beat scene, critocracy, Flying Lotus, future soul, L.A. underground, music journalism, Pitchfork, popapocalypse, Sa-Ra
Leave a comment
The Plug One 50 2009: Top 30 Tracks
While the Plug One 50’s top 20 albums list is designed to be authoritative (or at least highly opinionated), the top 30 tracks list tends to be a mishmash of random favorites. These are a few songs that caught my … Continue reading
Posted in Plug One 50, Reviews, Superlists
Tagged Aceyalone, Antipop Consortium, Asher Roth, Buckshot, Busdriver, Cage, Cam'ron, Clipse, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dorian Concept, Drake, Eminem, Filastine, Hudson Mohawke, J Dilla, Kero One, KRS-One, MF Doom, Mos Def, Pill, Raekwon, Sa-Ra, Tanya Morgan, The Clonius, The Roots, Themselves, Theophilus London
Leave a comment
The Plug One 50 2009: Top 20 Albums
This year’s crop of hip hop albums was an improvement over last year. But it didn’t come from the artists expected to dominate. Around this time in 2008, everyone was buzzing about the “new school” of blog-hyped rappers. They injected … Continue reading
Posted in Plug One 50, Reviews, Superlists
Tagged Aceyalone, Antipop Consortium, Brother Ali, Busdriver, Dorian Concept, Finale, Jneiro Jarel, Khujo Goodie, Madlib, MF Doom, Mike Slott, Mos Def, Mr. Lif, Nosaj Thing, P.O.S., Polyphonic, Raekwon, Sa-Ra, Serengeti, Shafiq Husayn, Tanya Morgan, Willie Isz, Zion-I
Leave a comment
Sa-Ra’s “Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love”
On June 9, Ubiquity Records will release Sa-Ra Creative Partners’s long-awaited Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love. Although technically Sa-Ra’s second album, Nuclear Evolution may be their first proper full-length. 2007’s The Hollywood Recordings was a mish-mash of old singles … Continue reading
Ten anticipated albums for 2009
Here is a speculative list of ten 2009 hip-hop albums. All of these titles are scheduled to drop sometime during the next 12 months. I omitted some perennial “coming soon” titles (Madvillainy 2, 9th Wonder’s The Wonder Years, Ghost & … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Antipop Consortium, Charles Hamilton, Dam-Funk, Hi-Tek, Hudson Mohawke, Jneiro Jarel, Khujo Goodie, Kid Cudi, Mos Def, Sa-Ra, Talib Kweli, Willie Isz, Zion-I
4 Comments
Review: Sa-Ra, “The Hollywood Recordings”
After nearly being shelved indefinitely by Sony, Sa-Ra’s debut finally gets released on Babygrande. J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Talib Kweli and Capone-N-Noreaga drop in and pay their respects to the future soul avatars. Continue reading