Skip to main content

Let’s go!

First post. I’ve been meaning to get this going for a while and for some reason waited all this time. Not sure why. Partly due to lack of time and partly because I wanted this to be well thought out from the jump I guess. But screw being perfect and overthinking things. So here it is. I’m obsessed with the Rap & Hip Hop genre and could talk about it for hours. Since nobody in my direct entourage could stand hearing me talk about it for more than a few mins (if at all) I figured I’d give this blogging stuff a go and share my thoughts on here instead. Hopefully someone will be interested.

So let’s go. Stay tuned for a bunch of good music and I look forward to reading you in the comments.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Revisiting Cypress Hill's Smoking Hot Catalogue

          Maybe it's the recent Halloween with its horror themes and skeletons. Or maybe it's the fact that the group recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 3rd and most critically/commercially successful studio album "III: Temples of Boom" (released on 31st October 1995, same day as Halloween). Recently I have found myself listening to a lot of Cypress Hill, which is bringing back a lot of great memories from my first years getting into Hip-Hop, and has inspired me to write on this blog again.      I first got into Cypress Hill while spending some time in Austria on a school exchange programme. Back then I was listening to a lot more Alternative Rock and Metal than I did Hip-Hop. My only reference was Eminem... I remember watching TV from time to time and leaving it on a channel playing back to back music videos (probably because I could not take watching any other German-speaking TV channel then). Besides a music video from some ...
Post a Comment
Read more

R.I.P. Nipsey Hussle - Revisiting Victory Lap

I was shocked to hear about Nipsey's murder earlier this week. The L.A. rapper had been active for nearly 15 years when he finally released his major debut "Victory Lap" last year to both critical and fan acclaim. He was the poster child for how hard work and dedication finally pay off when you don't let go and don't compromise. His message of approaching life as a marathon rather than a sprint resonated with all audiences no matter where you're from or what your upbringing was. He really was bigger than life, and like a Tupac before him, his message touched a lot of people and he was trying to do a lot of good for his community. Outside of the "Victory Lap" album, his discography is very long and you should check out his "Bullets Ain't Got No Name" and "Marathon" mixtape series. It's been just over a year since "Victory Lap" released and as I was listening to it yesterday I couldn't help but think that...
Post a Comment
Read more

Eminem's The Slim Shady LP turns 20 today

I can't believe it's been so long. On this day 20 years ago (23rd February 1999), Eminem released his breakout album "The Slim Shady LP". While this may not be Eminem's best album ("The Marshall Mathers LP" and "The Eminem Show" top this one for me) and it is far from classic in my books, this should still be on everyone's must-have list. And what better occasion than the 20th anniversary of its release to revisit this project. I must admit I am a little biased when it comes to this album. And when I popped my original copy of the album in my CD player today, the nostalgia kicked in. The memories came back rushing of this being my first Rap/Hip-Hop CD I ever bought, back in 2000. This is this very same CD that got me into the genre in the first place. Now that I go back in, I realise why most of the hip-hop community back then saw Eminem as a gimmick and why some even saw in his rise to fame a conspiracy orchestrated by the establishm...
Post a Comment
Read more