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  Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly Album Review Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope Records Released March 16th, 2015 Genre: Conscious Hip-Hop, Jazz Rap, Funk, https://open.spotify.com/album/7ycBtnsMtyVbbwTfJwRjSP Rap has become a culture that has a very distinct divide between fans. There are fans of the genre that only like boom-bap style beats, thick New York accents and songs about fake MCs. Others want newer-sounding, more electronically affected music. Kendrick Lamar is one of those rappers...
After the rough release of Battlefield 4, expectations were relatively high for Visceral Games. The outcome for this game's release however went quite smoothly. This was the outcome of several lengthy Betas that were offered by the developer. Compared to Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline lacks the game breaking bugs and glitches which is an absolute joy considering I myself am an incredible fan of...
"Get Rashkosky into the plane! The Cops are right behind us!" I exclaimed to my Heist crew over my headset as we attempted to flee from the police in a 6 seater prop plane. My three teammates moved the prisoner into the back of the plane as bullets pinged off the wing and fuselage of my plane. I began...
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear Album Review Sub Pop Records Released February 10, 2015 Genre: Indie Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Art Folk, Indie Rock Father John Misty is in love. Madly in love. But promotional performances for Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman’s, sophomore album I Love You, Honeybear tell a different story. When the Fleet Foxes ex-drummer appeared...
The Order: 1886, created by Ready at Dawn has been facing harsh criticism for over two weeks now. The game was rumored to be incredibly buggy and short (About 5 hours), the latter of which would not have been an issue the game was not exclusively single-player. In addition, other reviews by notable organizations killed any of my hopes for this game. Needless...
This film season saw many phenomenal movies, with groundbreaking advances in several categories. The race for each category was neck and neck, with quite a few excellent movies snubbed even in the nominations. However, many well deserving films won big, with a dark horse rising to win a surprising three Oscars. Ida from Poland won Best Foreign Language Film, topping...
In a makeshift backstage area in the Off The Record record shop, which resembled a storage closet, Jordan, singer and shredder for West Virginia’s Rozwell Kid, sinks into a chair. “It was a very short trip ,” Jordan says, thankful for a drive that was shorter than a 24-hour drive from South By Southwest to work in West Virginia....
A slow pan across a shadowy ally, a subdued, gravelly voice-over setting the tone, a morose orchestra of strings crescendoing into a dramatic climax: all contemporary tropes of the modern action film. While films such as The Dark Knight, Dredd, Godzilla and Daniel Craig’s James Bond all pull off these common themes with great skill, they do not negate...

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