Play It Again Sam: Kanye West|808’s & Heartbreak
2008 was my first year on the ‘Fro, and I was doing it real big; I went from reviewing Green City and Yung Berg to reviewing T.I. and Kanye in just 2 months! The Kanye album I had been skeptical about the entire year, mainly because I thought the Auto-Tune thing was wack and seeing [...]
The Numbers Game: Jamie, Beyoncé, & Clifford
For some reason, this week has been hard on your boy B-Easy. Not to say I’m not working on projects for nappyafro. I’m ALWAYS working on projects for nappyafro (Shit, I gave you people magic earlier this week). No complaints though
The Numbers Game: Kanye Stays At #4
We still here? I thought a Numbers Game this week wouldn’t see the light of day, but here we are. But hey, we’ll talk about that drama another time. Even though this January has been rough for the nappyafro crew, I can’t wait for this releases to start coming in. Think about it: Mariah Carey [...]
The Numbers Game: Kanye Goes Platinum
Damn, it’s 2009 already? After almost doing this column 40 times now, it still feels like I just started this yesterday. What does ‘09 hold for Hip-Hop on the charts? We’ll see a new Eminem album, maybe Detox, hopefully Blueprint 3 as well as a host of other releases (January looks slack as hell by [...]
The Numbers Game: Kanye Gets Top Spot
Once again there’s no surprise that Kanye’s 808’s & Heartbreak captured the #1 spot this week, but there is a question: Yes, it sold over 400,000 copies but what does that mean? With all the hype, speculation, and promoting, doesn’t that seem a little low? I mean, didn’t the sound of the album go for [...]
Kanye West|808’s & Heartbreak
Mr. West has tried to diversify his music for most of his career; The College Dropout was a Hip-Hop record with the sampling and soul music of The Blueprint, Late Registration was the album where his production took center-stage, while his rapping was still great. Graduation is where Kanye really started killing it with lyrics [...]
Kanye Leaks
With all of the leaks that have been springing up lately, you didn’t think that Marty McFly was going to escape untouched did you? Artists may as well get used to what is going on. No, it isn’t fair to them, but you have to love the fact that people want to hear your [...]
Friday Night ‘Fro: “Pulp Fiction”
I hope I didn’t fool anybody with the title of this post; this has nothing to do with the movie that revived John Travolta’s career (I do love that movie Pulp Fiction though). I think I’m just gonna throw up some random title so every Friday Night ‘Fro won’t be just called…Friday Night ‘Fro. I’m [...]
Song of the Week: Kanye West – “Love Lockdown”
This week I had mental notes about what should be Song of the Week. Why not put up that other bonus track from The Recession? Didn’t Jay-Z jump on a remix recently? Hey, what about Devin The Dude’s new one? In the end, the choice was really obvious
