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004 – Speakerboxxx
005 – The Love Below Mike M – Reviews 1 - 50

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This opinion might actually get me some hate, but I like Speakerboxxx more than The Love Below. Don’t get me wrong, Three Stacks was more creative, but I feel like Big Boi’s project was more focused and concise. Like, he knew what he wanted to do and did it, where as André just sort of ran around with his newly established state of carte blanche. That said, A Life In The Day of Benjamin André is an opus.

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002 – Exmilitary Mike M – Reviews 1 - 50

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So following Nation of Millions, I wanted to prove the “Downright Strange” part of my shtick. And there’s nothing weirder in the rap game than Death Grips.

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001 – It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back Mike M – Reviews 1 - 50

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I had no idea what I was doing, LOL. All I knew was I wanted to make a comic and I was stuck in a delivery job where I was listening to music constantly. I just put two and two together. This is probably my worst review over all, just because I was so new to the game. Which is sad because it’s one of the GOAT rap albums.

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I remember my friends with no differences
But pigment is relative, isn’t it Yelawolf – To Whom It May Concern

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The Confederate flag has a storied and awkward history with America. On the one hand, to many Southerners, it is a piece of history to be remembered and owned. On the other, to many other Americans (mostly black), the flag has a nasty history of white supremacism that while important to remember, needs to be ideologically discarded.

For more on the subject, peep Kat Blaque’s discussion piece on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdGccQk3j8&ab_channel=KatBlaque

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Big KRIT, I love you homie, keep killin’ shit
You inspired this verse, I got your back and that’s limitless Yelawolf – To Whom It May Concern

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KRIT and Yela are both proud Southern rappers and have been good friends for a while. They’ve even had a collab supposedly in the works for the past few years.

KRIT more than likely reached out to Yelawolf after the latter ranted on Facebook about the Confederate flag, probably reminding him about what the flag means to black people. As such, Yelawolf is now vowing to remember to live with the flag’s history and never forget his roots.

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Yes I apologize for me and anybody with that flag
Honestly, any proud Southerner is sad Yelawolf – To Whom It May Concern

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Yelawolf has spoken on the issue of racism in the South before, albeit briefly. In a VladTV interview, he said that the use of the N-word in the South is not taken lightly due to how many lives were lost in the Civil War.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdKzVPawvU&ab_channel=djvlad

Naturally, having pride as a Southerner, and still waving the Confederate battle flag while owning up to it’s history, he found it tragic that a symbol of the South was used in such a heinous crime as the Charleston massacre.

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Burzum is the one-man musical project of the notorious Varg Vikernes. Burzum took its name from the fictional Black Speech (Lord of the Rings) word for “Darkness”. The project is generally considered one of the most important acts in the history of metal.

Varg was deeply involved in the early Norwegian black metal scene. During such period, he played bass on Mayhem’s critically acclaimed De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, and with Burzum’s fourth album Filosofem, contributed invaluably to the subgenres of ambient black metal and DSBM (Depressive Suicidal Black Metal).

During his time in prison for the murder of Euronymous, Varg switched his sound to dark ambient music (having only access to synthesizers). After his release from prison, he put out three more black metal records (the last one being in tribute to early contributors of the first wave, namely Celtic Frost), before retooling Burzum as a neofolk/ambient project.

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Burzum is the one-man musical project of the notorious [Varg Vikernes](/artists/Varg-vikernes). Burzum took its name from the fictional Black Speech (Lord of the Rings) word for "Darkness". The project is generally considered one of the most important acts in the history of metal.

Varg was deeply involved in the early Norwegian black metal scene. During such period, he played bass on Mayhem's critically acclaimed *De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas*, and with Burzum's fourth album [*Filosofem*](/albums/Burzum/Filosofem), contributed invaluably to the subgenres of ambient black metal and DSBM (Depressive Suicidal Black Metal).

During his time in prison for the murder of [Euronymous](/artists/Euronymous), Varg switched his sound to dark ambient music (having only access to synthesizers). After his release from prison, he put out three more black metal records (the last one being in tribute to early contributors of the first wave, namely Celtic Frost), before retooling Burzum as a neofolk/ambient project.

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There’s no such thing as DSBM (Depressive Suicidal Black Metal)

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观世音 Kannon 观世音 Kannon

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The seventh album from Seattle doom-drone weirdos, Sunn O))). It is the first solo album from the band since 2009’s acclaimed Monoliths & Dimensions.

Kannon is deeply inspired by Buddhism. The name itself draws from the Japanese name for the Buddhist deity Guanyin.

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The cover to Sunn O)))’s seventh studio album is a photograph of a sculpture by Angela Lafont Bolliger, commissioned by the band themselves. Bolliger sat down with The Quietus and thoroughly discussed the album’s art and the inspiration behind it, citing Sunn O))) themselves, Buddhism, and Gian Lorenzo Berninis' Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. The end result is a quasi-comet object, simplistic in it’s purpose, yet complex and detailed in design.

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... Ostia, Italy, just weeks before the scheduled premiere of his final work, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. (A young man was convicted of the killing, but the case remains in dispute.) Pasolini, whose leftist beliefs and homosexuality made him a controversial figure in his time, is now considered one of cinema's most challenging and complex artists. Today, the reminder of his mysterious, all-too-sudden dea... An Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini - From the Current - The Criterion Collection

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Leftist being the operative word. Pasolini was an openly gay man, anti-clerical and anti-capitalist (at one point identifying with the Italian Communist Party). Much of his early work, sympathetic to the Lumpenproletariat , was criticized or censored by the nationalist parts of the Italian government. In his life, he was charged with both “contempt of religion” and “contempt of the state”.

Ironically, despite his anti-clerical leanings and open atheism, he later filmed the acclaimed film, The Gospel According To St. John out of what he described as nostalgia.

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