Apr 222011
 
Front-Free Gets Lo With Camp Lo

I remember watching CMC (California Music Channel) back home in the Bay Area, CA and seeing the video for “Luchini (This Is It)” for the first time, sandwiched in between the local rap and run-of-the-mill mainstream videos being played at the time.  I stopped everything I was doing.  All I knew was I liked what [...]

Apr 212011
 
The Listening: Volume 1

HAPPY BELATED 4/20, FOLKS. It’s been a dope week in music.  Some nice releases and I’ve been put on to a couple of things as well.  This is something new for Front-Free, so bear with us as I get the feel of this. COVERT COUP x CURREN$Y (PROD. BY ALCHEMIST) Appropriately dropped on 4/20, Curren$y [...]

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Apr 152011
 
Review: Gunz 'n' Butta by Cam'ron & Vado
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If you’re looking for that Jansport rap, it ain’t here.  Take that shit up the block.  Pharoahe Monch just dropped an LP not too long ago and it’s dope, but this is just something else entirely.  If you’ve never stood on the couch in the club buggin’ out, you may not get into it.  If [...]

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Apr 132011
 
Enter Sandman: Exclusive Interview With Sandman

You probably best remember Philadelphia MC Sandman (aka Sandcannon) from his role as 1/4 of The Re-Up Gang, with The Clipse and Ab Liva (of Major Figgas).  After leaving the group in 2008 over artistic differences, Sandman has been on his solo grind, releasing street-oriented mixtapes Philadelphia Ego, Gianormous and Heart of the City. What [...]

Apr 122011
 
Kill Your Radio: Smoke DZA, Camp Lo & Nerd Ferguson

Ignore that picture (I just thought it was funny) and kill your goddamn radio.  That’s the new motto.  There’s too much good music to be had out here for grown-ass people to be turning on the radio or Pandora (if you haven’t gotten hip to Grooveshark, you’re losing…support this site as they’re in some legal [...]

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Apr 082011
 
Fashion Friday: The Original David

From TheOriginalDavid.com: the original david was conceived in the eighties. it’s the result of hip hop, the challenger, sesame street, reading rainbow, boom boxes, eight tracks in the garage, records in the house, weekly readers, national geographic, the tearing down of the berlin wall, british knights and triple fat goose, goonies, breakin, pepsi vs coke, [...]

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Apr 012011
 
A Slightly Imperfect Weeknd [Review]

I ended up downloading The Weeknd’s House of Balloons mixtape as a result of a very simple suggestion: “Man, just download it”.  I was asking one of my Twitter followers what it was supposed to be after reading a few cryptic tweets hyping the project.  I didn’t know what the genre was supposed to be, [...]