“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now sounds…
Album Review: Big Boi — “BOOMIVERSE”
Typically, when you’re reviewing music, you need to tread lightly with albums with direct puns in their titles. Unless you’re “Weird Al” Yankovic, it’s dangerous territory. It sets your album with a loose, goofy tone. It sucks the pretension out…
Melody on Music: Year-End List Ruiners (Almost)
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. My New Year’s resolution…
Album Review: “Run the Jewels 3” By Run the Jewels
In 2013, Killer Mike and El-P formed Run the Jewels, the exhilarating hip-hop duo that gave both third-decade music veterans the widespread media love and voluptuous public adoration they both deserved decades prior. Only a year later did they produce…
Run the Jewels 2: Electric Boogaloo
Mother-F*cker, (religious figure). Damn, was I surprised by this album. To be honest, the first album surprised me as well, but I haven’t heard a record this clean in a while. In theory, I believe Dre’s Chronic (2001) is possibly…