Mos Def Points out Doom’s Awesome Idiosyncrasies. On the new Doom album, Born Like This, there are many guest stars,Ghost, Rae, but I had Empress Sharrh joint on repeat for the last twentyminutes. Take a listen. I’ll wait. She had me at , “Sign away your publishing for Jordan’s and loosie?” Say word?I feel like [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jay Electronica is Basquiat on Wax’
Empress Sharhh is the Nicest Emcee Since Jay Electronica
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Jay Electronica vs. S.O.U.L Purpose?
Friday, May 9th, 2008“How can you be nostalgic for something that youdidn’t live through” What?According to Webster defines nostalgia as: 1: the state of being homesick : homesickness2: a wistfulsentimental yearning for return to or of some past period orirrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia While I think it is reasonable to criticize the young bucks [...]
Jay Electronica is Basquiat on Wax
Sunday, February 10th, 2008I believe in Jay the way ?uestlove belives in Tanya Morgan.Ever since I read Grace Lee Boggs autobiography I havebeen obsessed with the notion of becoming a more human, human.Jay brings multi-layered samples similar to Doom.Farrakhan samples.Muhammad Ali samples.Tribe-esque licks. Come to think of it, I don’t think The Nationhas been on a rap song [...]
