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“WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE”

“WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE”

As soon as the tracklist for Drake and Future’s rumored collaborative mixtape What A Time To Be Alive leaked on Twitter, the internet hype machine began firing on all cylinders.  When Drake uploaded the cover art to Instagram, he catapulted What A Time To Be Alive from the shadow realm of hip hop fantasy into the bright spotlights of today’s social media.  The 11-track mixtape premiered on and was released exclusively through Apple Music, which is clearly reaping the rewards…

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Album Review: Travi$ Scott’s Long-Awaited ‘Rodeo’ Delivers

Album Review: Travi$ Scott’s Long-Awaited ‘Rodeo’ Delivers

The first words we hear on Travi$ Scott’s debut album Rodeo are from rapper T.I., who praises Scott as a “young rebel against the system, refusing to conform or comply to the ways of authority, [choosing] a mood of ‘fuck this shit.’” Scott (or, as he refers to himself, “La Flame”) takes these words to heart, delivering his well-known brand of “fuck this shit” music on this album. After a few listens, it’s clear that T.I.’s intro serves as both…

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Lady Rappers

Lady Rappers

There is no genre of music that excites me more than hip-hop. I was eleven years old and at my first middle school dance when hip-hop entered my life. The dance was pretty bad—they were holding it in the cafeteria at 3:30 in the afternoon, I barely knew anyone, it was uncomfortable, and I had no idea what was going on. Elementary school dances were easy; you wore something pastel-colored and danced tamely for three hours to Radio Disney as…

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