The Easy Truth is hip-hop in it's purest form with Apollo Brown taking us through a master class of producing and sampling, and Skyzoo taking each track through a lyrical exercise. It's a beautiful, refreshing album that shows exactly why Apollo Brown is one of my all-time favorites.
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August had a ton of great new albums and music videos from the likes of Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Logic and The Killers; and it also featured some interesting trailers for mother!, You Were Never Really Here, and Loving Vincent. We've highlighted some of the best drops over the month and now we're ready to crown the best album, movie trailer, and music video.
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Things just seem to gel better with Brown's more traditional boom-bap and sample heavy sounds as Ghostface Killah's sinister lyrics glide more effortlessly than before and the dark tales have decidedly more pop. The end result may be less ambitious than Younge's previous effort but it is a better match and a smoother listen.
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The latest joint project from Apollo Brown featuring Joell Ortiz is a respectable effort in essential East coast hip-hop although it stays strictly within the lines.
We kick off the first volume of Compilation 2 of our Musicphiles podcast by taking a quick look back at some of our favorite projects to drop in 2016 and giving our overall rating for the year. Then we list our top 10 most anticipated albums of 2017 from artists like Andre 3000, Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, Japandroids, Drake, Kanye West, and many more. We finish things off with a discussion about the latest release from Run the Jewels, Tory Lanez, and others.
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Artists are continuing to line up to work with Apollo Brown and for good reason. His sampling is on another level and his lush, soulful production is exceptional as always. Anchovies isn't my favorite project of his but I'll take as much Apollo Brown production as I can get.
Check out some of this weeks most talked about and interesting music videos from Flying Lotus, Gorillaz, Fabolous, Miguel, Majid Jordan, and more.
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Apollo Brown definitely coasted on this one and it showed. It'll still make the catalog because I still love a good Apollo Brown beat but 'No Question' is one of his weakest efforts yet.
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