Articles by Omar Mouallem

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  Erykah Badu

  New Amerykah Part One (Fourth World War)

  PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2008

  Erykah Badu’s long awaited album, New Amerykah Part One (Fourth World War), is her first LP since 2000, but its concision could justify an...

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  Archetype

  Bleed For Them

  PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

  One look at ID and Nezbeat and they might be dismissed as another hipster-hop group, but they actually bring a very traditional style of hi...

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  Common

  This Is Me Then: The Best of Common

  PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

  This Is Me Then takes it back to when Common had "sense” and a solid-coloured kufi. It’s hard to believe that you could fit an entire legac...

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  Public Enemy featuring Paris

  Remix of a Nation

  PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

  If there’s any good that’s come out of these last seven Bush years, it’s the resurgence of Public Enemy. No doubt, the American Decider has...

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  Various

  This Dance Dance Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

  How did an X-Box game find its way into my review pile? It’s not a game, actually, it’s the cunningly packaged and marketed new instalment...

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  Classified

  While You Were Sleeping

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

  Classified is 12 years deep in the game, and he has one of the largest rap discographies to prove it. So it’s about damn time he compiles h...

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  Necro

  Death Rap

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

  To say that nobody does "death rap” as well as Necro is like saying nobody does IEDs like al-Qaeda. How wonderful it would be for Necro to...

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  Somobe

  The Great Communication

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2007

  With Las Vegas as their background, you’d think hedonism would be the meter to which Somobe rap but they’ve reversed it entirely. While sub...