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Nate Patrin

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Nate Patrin’s writing has appeared in several far-flung corners of music critic circles, ranging from Pitchfork to SPIN to the Seattle Weekly and the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages. Quiz him on what his favorite record is, and he’ll typically ask if he can narrow it down by era, genre and region, and even then he’ll wind up mulling over a couple dozen candidates. Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele, the Stooges’ Fun House and Miles Davis’ On the Corner, for starters.

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El-P, Cancer 4 Cure

El-P's music has always been a mix of sci-fi futurist grandiosity and old… more »

Blockhead, Interludes After Mi…

As whimsical and childlike as Ninja Tune mainstay Blockhead's music can b… more »

Death Grips, The Money Store…

The first impulse after listening to Death Grips' The Money Store might s… more »

Stik Figa, As Himself

For hip-hop fans who value authenticity, Stik Figa is as real as it gets … more »

Gensu Dean, Lo-Fi Fingahz…

Texas-based Gensu Dean is a traditionalist about crate-digging and beat-b… more »

ECID, Werewolf Hologram…

The Twin Cities have nurtured and cultivated abstract hip-hop to the poin… more »

Busdriver, Beaus$Eros

In more than a decade's worth of work, Busdriver has exhibited amazing po… more »

Sean Born, Behind the Scale…

The most memorable MCs in the formative years of drug-kingpin rap all sha… more »

Union, Analogtronics

Parisian producers OJ and Gold are driven by a shared aesthetic, one in w… more »

Alias, Fever Dream

If there's such a thing as an in-house production style over at anticon, … more »

yU, The Earn

It's not unprecedented for a hip-hop artist to hit his stride after hitti… more »

Common, The Dreamer, the Belie…

Sometimes the best returns-to-form are the most obvious ones. And after t… more »

G-Side, iSLAND

G-Side's Huntsville-rooted, codeine-hazed strain of Southern rap has been… more »

Drake, Take Care – Delux…

Drake shot to the upper echelon of hip-hop fame by bypassing nearly every… more »

Drake, Take Care – Edite…

Drake shot to the upper echelon of hip-hop fame by bypassing nearly every… more »

Freestyle Fellowship, The Prom…

Twenty years after their debut, To Whom It May Concern..., and a decade a… more »

Mayer Hawthorne, How Do You Do…

In jumping from the dusty-crate beat-geek aegis of Stones Throw to the po… more »

Das Racist, Relax

"Yeah, I'm fucking great at rapping" — it's a statement so matter-o… more »

Six Degrees of Blue Öyster Cul…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Theophilus London, Timez Are W…

An odd splinter faction of independent hip hop has arisen in the last hal… more »

Co$$, Before I Awoke

While Los Angeles's gangsta and backpack rap scenes weren't as divided as… more »

DJ JS-1, No One Cares (Ground …

Putting together an album heavy on '90s throwback hip-hop and subtitling … more »

Kool G Rap, Riches, Royalty …

It's been a long time since Kool G Rap's fluid flow established h… more »

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