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Live Review: Bas "Milky Way"

Bas delivers "Milky Way" effortlessly. Two years after his sophomore album Too High To Riot Bas returns, smoothly sailing on Milky Way. The Queens-based Dreamville signee has spent much of the summer on the 26-city "Too High To Riot Tour" with fellow Dreamville members Cozz and EarthGang. The Milky Way, in contrast, is significantly more upbeat than his previous work, finding Bas rather celebratory, as he welcomes the highest point in his career thus far. Bas approaches all the tracks with the attitude of someone at total ease with their environment. Barring a few hiccups, there’s an almost nonchalance with how Bas raps that pervades the entire work and makes for an easy listening experience. Roughly half of the tracks have featured artists, and Bas works well with each of them, at no point is he explicitly overshadowed by those assisting him. His collaborations with A$AP Ferg, J. Cole, and Ari Lennox make for some of the best songs on the album. The production on M

SahBabii "Squidtastic" Review

SahBabii continues to forge his own cannon on "Squidtastic". When SahBabii’s “Pull Up Wit Ah Stick” first went viral, a few tried to write off the Chicago-born rapper as a Young Thug clone. It didn’t help that his strongest tracks at the time - “King Of The Jungle”; “Only Knew 1 Way”; “Purple Ape”  - were often mislabeled as “rare” Thugger leaks on Youtube. It was his flow, more than anything, that had people shook; everyone had believed Thug’s elusive crooning to be irreplicable, yet here was Sah, firmly latched onto a few specific idiosyncrasies that made Slime Season Thugger such a thrill. Sure, he wasn’t operating at the same level as his inspiration, but he was doing something much more important - he was building his own world. In that sense, it’s hard to knock Sah for the influences he wears so openly (Thug himself flew Sah out to London the minute “Pull Up Wit Ah Stick” got on his radar). Raised by his mother in Chicago before eventually joining his older brother, T3,

Live Review: Eminem "Kamikaze"

Eminem's "Kamikaze" provides fans and haters alike with ample fodder for their respective causes. “Every CD critics gave it a 3, Then three years later they go back and re-rate it Then called The Slim Shady LP the greatest The Marshall Mathers was a classic The Eminem Show was fantastic But Encore just didn't have the caliber to match it I guess enough time just ain't passed yet A couple more years, that shit'll be Illmatic" - Eminem, “Careful What You Wish For" Eminem has never played nice with critics. A simple journey through his discography provides ample proof. In truth, Em has toyed with rappers and pop stars alike, making short work of them across a variety of storied diss tracks. “The Sauce.” “Nail In The Coffin.” “Quitter.” “The Warning.” “Can-i-Bitch.” All share a similar pattern, in which Eminem embodies an apex predator of his choosing. Few dare go against him, and those that do throw stones have come to expect a boulder in response. Yet

Drake Gives The Crowd Exactly What They Want On "Aubrey & The Three Amigos" Tour

Drake was polite, methodical, and very Canadian during his "Aubrey & The Three Amigos" tour stop last night. Drake returned to Canada last night. (One of the) crowning glories of the Great White North, the actor-turned-rapper-turned-generally-super-famous-person, brought his tour, “Aubrey & The Three Amigos,” for the first of a two-night stint in Montreal on a warm Tuesday evening. The tour already visited Canada at its outset, with back-to-back shows in Drake’s native Toronto, followed by more back-to-back-to-back shows in New York. If we’ve learned one thing from this, it’s that literally where ever Drake goes, he can sell out back-to-back. While tour dates were delayed and rescheduled multiple times, the shows are now running smoothly in each city, whatever production kinks initially hindering the schedule seem to be fully resolved, at least judging from last night’s event. ---- Everyone loves Drake. A Drake show, which filled an arena of 20,000 people last night,

"Power" Finale Recap: An Unstoppable Force & An Immovable Object Collide

Ghost vs. Tommy - you knew it was coming. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? The collision course of Ghost and Tommy's actions have officially placed them on opposite sides of the fence. There was a moment in Power that occurred earlier in the season that heavily foreshadowed where their friendship was heading. At the time, Kanan was rescuing Jason from the hit Ghost put on him. When Jason asks Kanan to kill off Tommy and Ghost in the midst of a double cross, Kanan blatantly replies that the two friends will tear each other apart on their own. He was right. At the conclusion of this week’s season finale, Ghost and Tommy take the epic leap from deteriorating friendship to enraged enemies. Aptly titled “When This Is Over,” the season finale of Power is bringing Starz’s hit series to a close. Show creator Courtney Kemp sat down with Deadline to speak about the fallout between Ghost and Tommy, and she also hinted at the show’s overall conclusion. “So, we’