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Over the years, people have been padding out their vinyl collections more and more. For a while, playing albums on your record player was considered dated. By then, people moved onto cassette players, then CDs, then just plain ol’ MP3s. But there was a magic to discovering new technology and finding new ways to play your music. Once streaming took the magic away, people started favoring old traditions again. People […]

Artists are notoriously defensive of their own work. They become combative towards critics who train their minds and writing skills to thoughtfully review a piece of art. This is especially true for someone like Kanye West. His massive, self-admitted ego couldn’t wrap his mind around a negative review of his work, especially when it’s as good as College Dropout. So when Rolling Stone gave him three and a half stars […]

“F**k The Police” is one of the most fiery, righteous rap songs of all time. Where Public Enemy eventually became a broader protest song, N.W.A’s scathing rage made the song raw and specific. However, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy E, and co. actually didn’t intend to make this great anthem that would fuel protests in the future. Instead, “F**k The Police” actually stemmed from the aftermath of a prank. In […]

There aren’t a lot of things Drake hasn’t done in his career. He still remains one of the biggest and most successful rappers in the world, even with his beef with Kendrick Lamar and the music industry at large. So what would he ever need to be jealous of? Moreover, who would he be jealous of? Rewind back to 2015, the Toronto MC spoke with The Fader, where he admitted […]