Articles by Aaron Matthews

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  Notes to Self

  Warning Shots

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2009

  Toronto, ON-based crew Notes to Self consist of DJ Dopey and rappers Swamp Donkey, Roshin and Bronze One, who is also the group's producer....

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  Marco Polo & Torae

  Double Barrel

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  Marco Polo and Torae are touting Double Barrel as a return to the gritty hip-hop coming from New York in the mid-'90s, embodied by groups l...

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  General Steele

  Welcome To Bucktown

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

  Welcome To Bucktown is Smif-N-Wessun member Steele's solo debut, inspired by the 1975 Blaxploitation film Bucktown. The album samples dialo...

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  Havoc

  Hidden Files

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2009

  Hidden Files is the Mobb Deep member's second solo album. One wonders why he bothered. The instrumentals are consistent, if unremarkable, b...

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  Krumbsnatcha

  Hidden Scriptures

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

  It's been 11 years since Krumbsnatcha's career-making appearance on Gang Starr's "Make 'Em Pay" and five years since the Boston MC's last a...