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Goodie Mob, Age Against the Machine

2013 | Label: The Right Records

08.27.13 Expectations are intrusive enough when you’re dealing with a reunion from a long-dissolved beloved musical act. With the new Goodie Mob album, Age Against the Machine, that reunion is coupled with a reinvention: 14 years separate this record and the pop-leaning World Party, the last album Goodie Mob made with all four members and something of a contentious stylistic departure in itself. Things get even cloudier if you factor in the styles that the core members have been indulging since — the dearth of straight-up rap on Cee-Lo’s solo and… more »

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Doris

Earl Sweatshirt

2013 | Tan Cressida/Columbia

Earl Sweatshirt, Doris

2013 | Label: Tan Cressida/Columbia

By Jayson Greene Managing Editor

08.22.13 When Odd Future crashed the party in 2010, they seemed, momentarily, like marauders. Now that the Golgi Apparatus of the music industry has more or less broken them down for useable parts — a cartoon show, a pop-up clothing store, corporate sponsorships — they resemble nothing so much as a good, old-fashioned, harmless dysfunctional family. Like any family, they have their louts and their geniuses, their ne’er-do-wells and good kids — Tyler, the Creator is the braying patriarch; Frank Ocean is the successful cousin who moved to Europe and who… more »

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Trap Lord

A$AP Ferg

2013 | A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds Music/RCA Records

A$AP Ferg, Trap Lord

2013 | Label: A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds Music/RCA Records

By Ian Cohen eMusic Contributor

08.20.13 The designated wild card of the A$AP Mob pays tribute to misanthrope rap heroes
A$AP Mob is a decidedly modernist version of a rap crew. They rep high fashion and veganism; they give equal time to obscene strip club raps and borderline horrorcore. But they’re also ardent hip-hop fanatics, and any student of the game knows a real rap crew needs both breakout star and a wild card. A$AP Rocky has taken on the role of the former and A$AP Ferg has played the latter with aplomb. You could call him… more »

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2013 | Label: Roc Nation / IDJ

By Jayson Greene Managing Editor

07.10.13 From the moment it was announced, in a commercial broadcast during halftime at an NBA Finals game, there was a distinct feeling of “Once as history, twice as farce” to Jay-Z’s Magna Carta… Holy Grail. The three-minute short, which showed Jay shooting the breeze with Timbaland, Pharrell and a reclining, cherubic Rick Rubin (who evidently had nothing to do with the album’s creation), played like a bad mirror image of 2004′s Fade to Black, the film surrounding 2003′s The Black Album, complete with a parody of the… more »