The Chuckness

Watch The Throne, the highly anticipated collaborative effort between Kanye West and Jay-Z , was released last night exclusively via iTunes. I shacked up the $15 for the deluxe version, added it to my iPod, and awaited my flight from Chicago to Boston before pressing play. After listening to the album four times front to back, I felt the need to put the initial reaction into words. Before we get too far into this, let’s get one thing straight: Kanye West and Sean Carter are just two human beings who make music for a profession. With the immense, over-the-top hype behind … Continue reading →

Lupe Fiasco’s Lasers is arguably the most anticipated album of 2011. It’s definitely the most hyped album of the year thus far…I don’t think anyone would argue with that. The controversy surrounding Lupe’s position with Atlantic Records and the fact that this was originally going to be the third and final release of his career both have fueled the hype tremendously (It’s no longer his final album). This past week articles surfaced detailing how he himself hates Lasers. According to him, several of the beats were given to him by people at Atlantic, refusing to release the album unless he … Continue reading →

After several weeks with Kanye’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, I’m finally comfortable writing a couple words on it. As South Park put it, the self-proclaimed “mothafuckin’ lyrical wordsmith mothafuckin’ genius” is back with arguably the most hyped album of the year. I’m just gonna cut to the chase here and tell you that I don’t care how much of a egocentric dickhead Kanye’s perceived to be (or actually is). From the opening sequence of “Dark Fantasy” to the closing segments of “Who Will Survive In America”, his fifth studio album blows everything out of the water, and … Continue reading →

KiD CuDi’s sophomore album, Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager has been one of my most anticipated releases of the year. The guy’s one of my favorite artists out there, and to say that I was heavily into his mixtapes and first album is an understatement. If we still lived in the day and age of records or CD’s, my copies of A Kid Named Cudi and Man On The Moon: The End of Day would be scratched and out of commission.  Both are pieces of work that I keep coming back to and continue to obsess over. With … Continue reading →

Mike Posner’s debut album dropped tonight.  I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I heard his first mixtape last summer, A Matter of Time…and it pains me to say that you’re much better off sticking with his mixtapes.  Plain and simple. Listen to A Matter of Time and his follow up mixtape, One Foot Out The Door, and you hear pure potential blasting out the speakers. He made his own beats and had an infectious, bizarre voice that flowed perfectly on top of his production. When he was coming up, he was something different and unique, yet it resonated … Continue reading →