Hip Hop Golden Ange Blog

• Aesop Rock – Black Hole Superette | Review 30 May 2025
  Aesop Rock, born Ian Bavitz, has been a singular voice in Hip Hop since the late ‘90s, known for his dense lyricism, surreal imagery, and a delivery that tumbles across beats like a runaway freight train with a dictionary duct-taped to the front. He emerged from the New York underground and made a name for […]
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• Yugen Blakrok – The Illusion Of Being | Review 21 May 2025
  Yugen Blakrok doesn’t release albums often, but when she does, the world shifts slightly. The Illusion of Being is her third full-length project, and it’s another masterclass in intellectual Hip Hop built from shadowy textures, dense wordplay, and unpredictable turns. At 13 tracks deep, it’s a dark, challenging listen—structured more like a philosophical cipher than […]
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• The Goats “Typical American” (1992) 21 May 2025
  The Goats “Typical American” (1992): “Typical American” (1992) is the lead single off Tricks of the Shade, the debut album from Philadelphia trio The Goats. The Goats original line-up consisted of OaTie Kato (James D’Angelo), Madd (a.k.a. “the M-A-the-double-D”, Maxx Stoyanoff Williams), and Swayzack (Patrick Shupe). The group recorded on Columbia Records / Ruffhouse Records, and their first album, Tricks […]
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• Contrasting Rap Titans: billy woods vs Kendrick Lamar 16 May 2025
  billy woods vs. Kendrick Lamar: A Study in Pen Game and Artistic Vision In the past fifteen years, few artists have redefined Hip Hop’s artistic potential as profoundly as billy woods and Kendrick Lamar. Representing opposite ends of the rap spectrum—woods as the elusive architect of underground, abstract Hip Hop, and Lamar as the mainstream’s […]
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• Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap | A Hip-Hop Documentary Masterpiece 11 May 2025
  In the vast landscape of music documentaries, few manage to capture the essence, craft, and cultural significance of their subject matter with as much authenticity as “Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.” Released in 2012, this groundbreaking film directed by Hip Hop pioneer Ice-T with co-director Andy Baybutt stands as one of the most […]
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• Jeru The Damaja “Ya Playing Yourself” (1996) 9 May 2025
  “Ya Playing Yourself” is the first single from Jeru The Damaja’s second album Wrath Of The Math. Wrath Of The Math was completely produced by DJ Premier and continues the themes of Afrocentricity, preserving Hip Hop culture, and more about the harms of materialism that were discussed on Jeru’s debut album The Sun Rises in the East. In its liner […]
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• billy woods – GOLLIWOG | Review 9 May 2025
  billy woods’ GOLLIWOG opens like a trap door. It doesn’t aim to provoke in cheap ways. It lingers, stalks, and drips with unease, constructed like a horror movie shot in reverse. Across 18 tracks, woods delivers some of his most vivid, fractured work to date. The album is dense and difficult on purpose, pulling from […]
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• Knowledge The Pirate & Roc Marciano – The Round Table | Review 6 May 2025
  Knowledge the Pirate’s The Round Table is a razor-sharp collaboration with longtime friend and producer Roc Marciano. It’s a cold, calculated, and tightly wound album that keeps its focus locked on mood, structure, and stripped-down street poetry. Across 14 tracks, the duo stays in their own lane—grim, minimal, and confident. The beats don’t chase momentum, […]
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• Souls Of Mischief “93 Til Infinity” (1993) 30 April 2025
  “93 Til Infinity” is the lead single and title track of Souls Of Mischief‘s 1993 debut album. The song reached #72 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group consists of four members (A-Plus, Opio, Phesto, and Tajai) and is a subgroup of the Oakland, California hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. The album was released on September 28, 1993. It also featured singles “That’s When Ya […]
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• Big Daddy Kane “Smooth Operator” (1989) 15 April 2025
  “Smooth Operator” is the lead single released from Big Daddy Kane‘s second album, It’s a Big Daddy Thing. Arguably one of Big Daddy Kane’s most popular songs, the song topped the newly formed Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart and was a hit on the R&B and dance charts, peaking at number 11 and 17 on […]
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• Saba & No I.D. – From The Private Collection Of Saba And No I.D. | Review 7 April 2025
  From The Private Collection Of Saba And No I.D. is an album built on groove, focus, and mutual respect. The production is steeped in soul, jazz, and dusty funk, with drums that knock and samples that swirl but never overcrowd. No I.D. stretches out across the tracks, flipping chords into loops that breathe, chop, and […]
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• Special Ed “I Got It Made” (1989) 5 April 2025
  “I Got It Made” is one of the classic singles of Special Ed’s debut album Youngest In Charge. “I Got It Made” remains a quintessential slice of late ’80s Hip Hop, a testament to youthful exuberance and lyrical dexterity. Released in 1989 on Profile Records, this track, propelled by its infectious beat and Ed’s smooth, […]
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