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The Plug One 2000s: Tanya Morgan, “Moonlighting”

88. Tanya Morgan, Moonlighting Loud Minority Music Released April 4, 2006 In the Okayplayer-led world of soulful, classically inspired hip hop, Tanya Morgan’s debut marked a transition from the Little Brother styles of the mid-00s to the freewheeling blog rap … Continue reading

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Tanya Morgan’s “Hi-Fidelity Tour”

Tanya Morgan embarks on the “Hi-Fidelity” tour later this month, the “Hi-Fidelity” a reference to Donwill’s forthcoming album Don Cusack in High Fidelity. The East Coast run features support from Kooley High. Since everything nowadays is prefaced with a YouTube … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Hardcore Gentlemen’s “Hardcore Gentlemen”

Tanya Morgan made a video for their hilarious parody “Hardcore Gentlemen.” It’s directed by Ilyas. Check below for Hardcore Gentlemen’s slightly overdone “press bio.” Question: How can they have only one self-titled single AND a gold album and follow-up single?

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Tanya Morgan welcomes you to “Brooklynati”

The three members of Tanya Morgan — Don Will, Ilyas and Von Pea — have tormented and teased their fans with side projects all winter, from mixtapes (Von Pea’s The Further Adventures of Von Pea, Ilyas’ The Prelude) to web … Continue reading

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Interdependent Media emerges with Tanya Morgan, J*Davey

What is Interdependent Media? The Bay Area, Calif. label is relatively unknown on the music scene, but has already corraled two major artists in the urban underground: J*Davey and Tanya Morgan. Interdependent Media was launched by Ian “ID” Davis, Evan … Continue reading

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Hiero spends summer on Freshly Dipped Tour

It’s been a little over ten years since Del, Souls of Mischief, Casual and producer Domino launched Hiero Imperium. So this summer, the crew will celebrate with the Freshly Dipped Tour, a summer-long trek through North America. Oddly, at the … Continue reading

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Tanya Morgan drops new mixtape, tours

Usually, when someone releases a mixtape it isn’t a big deal. But it has been over two years since Tanya Morgan released their debut album, Moonlighting, to rave reviews and backpacker fame. Since then, the Cincinnati-Brooklyn trio has spent more … Continue reading

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