John Robinson – Gifted
A friend of mine told me, “if a rapper has to curse every other word…they’re not a rapper.” John (JR) Robinson is a rapper for sure! The Gifted is one of those albums I can play with my mother in the car and she won’t give me that look like what are we listening to. [...]
Thelonious – Life Of A Teenage Champion
The first project I heard from Thelonious was Fear of Flight and it was dope. I kept checking back with Thelonious, and he just cranked one beat tape out after the next. I have had the honor of doing the art for one of the many beat tapes, Big Wheels & Gold Teeth, but also [...]
K. Sparks – Super Senior
My man Thelonious was dropping beat tape after beat tape. One day we were tweeting, and he mentioned he was looking to work with some emcees. K. Sparks was one that he brought up a couple of times, and told me to keep my ears open. Shortly after, Thelonious emailed me this dope track called [...]
Thelonious – BIG Wheels & Gold Teeth
I have no idea where Thelonious comes up with these titles, but I’m sure he’s got a good reason for it. I can’t say much about the first track, Big Wheels, except bangin. I don’t know how many times I played it before I got to the rest of the tracks. Big Wheels & Gold [...]
Thelonious – Fear of Flight
I was catching up on some twittering, and read one by the fam Infinite Cycle about this cat Thelonious. Now Thelonious isn’t his real name, but after this you’ll understand how he got it. Monk was mad genius on hitting the keys, and anyone using “Thelonious” better live up to the name. So seeing how [...]
Dub MD & Illmind Presents…
Just to let you know how much reading and reviewing I do, it took me 3 blogs (days of posts) and 2 mixtapes (that weren’t that good) to find something I think is worth posting. And this is totally worth posting. One of the blogs lead me to The Kaos Effect, which got me reading [...]