James Totton's Music Reviews: Recent Episodes
James Totton
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Did the Grammy Awards get it all right? Did they get the right winners? I break down my thoughts on the matter.
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It's that time of the year where I bash your favorite song lol.
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Usher dedicates this album to Atlanta with help from Zaytoven.
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After Justin Timberlake delivered an unmemorable performance at this past Super Bowl, we, the public, get to experience another bland performance next year - this time from one of the most mediocre and sanitized pop groups, Maroon 5.
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Disclaimer: There is a muffled section of this audio: Here is what I said:
On ‘The Ringer’ he disses Lil’ Xan, Lil’ Pump, and Lil’ Yachty for making and popularizing mumble rap. Ironically, he uses Lil’ Pump’s flow from his song ‘Gucci Gang’ to mock him. It’s clear that now more than ever that Eminem has turned into the Mr. Wilson of rap music. He’s turned into the “hey, you kids get off my lawn” kind of rapper. Outside of the mumble rappers, he disses Vince Staples with these bars:
If I press the issue just to get the anger out/Full magazine could take Staples out.
He also dissed NF: It’ll help me get back to myself and she’ll love me/I mailed the broad back and said that if I did that/ I’d just be like everyone else in the industry /especially aN Effing Recovery clone of me.
Eminem dissed Staples after he called his 2017 BET cypher trash and that he can do better.
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TAB returns with some new music after he released his mixtape 'Put It On My TAB' a little over a year ago. Here is a link to his SoundCloud page for more music from him or to keep up with his every move:
https://soundcloud.com/tall-and-bony
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I respond to a shared post about the double standard of mistreatment between Azealia Banks and 50 Cent. The short answer to this is that people sympathize with artists if they make good music no matter how awful of a person they are. Who has more fans? You guessed it, 50 Cent. So naturally more sympathy will go his way while Azealia Banks will keep her focus on trolling and not making good music. I have yet to hear anything good music from her.
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Jay-Z and Beyonce release their first collaborative album after scoring a number of hits together in the past. But this time around the content from them just sounds uninspired and lacks any consequences that made their previous albums a lot more relatable.
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Freddie Gibbs keeps his fans entertained while they wait for his anticipated album with Madlib titled 'Bandana'.
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Nipsey Hussle releases his long awaited album 'Victory Lap'.
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I ramble about why the BET Awards are out of touch with artistic integrity.
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These are the best and worst so far.
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According to Pitchfork, Daytona is Pusha’s best work as a solo artist, a tightly wound record that doesn’t recapture the highs of peak Clipse, but finally makes ideal use of the now middle-aged rapper’s considerable skills.
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