top prospects
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Kev Decor, The Unexplained #TopProspects
Kev Decor is one of those artists who had hovered around the borders of my conciousness for a minute. DJBooth had been posting his music for just a shade over a year now, but while I personally recognized the name, had some…
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Muzi, The Tribe Life #TopProspects
Our brains are already over flowing. We need to finish that report for our job and go grocery shopping and text that girl back and try to eat healthier but then Instagram that burger we just ate and find a…
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Saba, The Native Son #TopProspects
Right now you can’t be from Chicago without being from Chicago. Hip-hop has always been obsessed with geography, but with Chicago blanketed in the kind of epidemic violence that fill headlines and threatens to smother the city, the city itself has become the lens…
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Eric Biddines, Self Made #TopProspects
Some men are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them. And then others create their own greatness, piece their greatness together with whatever humble materials they can find: duct tape, hope, recording studios, drive, day jobs, creativity. Early on, growing up…
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Allan Rayman, The Unknown #TopProspects
We don’t live in the age of too much information. We passed by “too much” about ten years ago. We live in an age of an almost unbearable amount information, a tidal wave of multimedia that has drowned us, and…
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Top Prospects: Anderson .Paak, The Discovery
Anderson .Paak can see that promised land and he wants you to trust him enough to follow him there.
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Lorenzo Asher, The Director #TopProspects
Acting is a skill. Acting is an art. Actors can have genius in them. But actors often don’t have to see beyond the lines they’re given, beyond the role they’re playing in any given scene. Actors can afford to have tunnel…
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Kembe X, The Feeling #TopProspects
Late night. The studio. A female sits on the couch, eyes fluttering between open and closed. Kembe X is smoking and waiting for her to fall asleep so he can start recording. He’s not sure exactly why he needs her to be…
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Meet Sincerely Collins, The Phoenix
Metaphor alert: The phoenix rises from an environment where that rise seems impossible. The phoenix is able to turn death into life, to immerse itself in pain so fully that energy becomes joy, life. The phoenix doesn’t just willingly destroy itself…
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Russ, The Wild Card #TopProspects
“It’s just about crazy self belief, like delusional self belief.”
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Mick Jenkins, The Conscience #TopProspects
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the word “conscience” became a taboo in hip-hop, when a simple test – “Do these words actually mean anything?” – went from an essential tenet of rapping to an albatross. It might have been “Moment of…