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...December now, and it’s a fitting time to look back on the musical accomplishments of the past year. It was a year that seemed to see it all, but don’t they say that every year? We had a great Brit-rap concept album, an Appalachian hick songwriter cutting a tribute album to his own band, the most drugged-out campfire songs you’ve ever heard, and the long-awaited mainstream success of Modest Mouse. This is all on top of new full-lengths of varying quality from such rock warhorses as Sonic...
...commercial success these two legends found by committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten things—like, say, personality and good songwriting—will inspire record labels to demand higher artistic standards in their other acts. And lest we forget, 2004 also had lots of great rap albums. Madvillain, the brainchild of emcee MF Doom and producer Madlib, broke out of the underground with a relentlessly unique Lo-Fi collaboration. The absurdly gifted young producer Kanye West picked up the microphone and silenced his doubters, proving himself a witty and charming new voice. Eminem returned from...
...right here, at least initially; college students swear an awful lot, and create new and intricate forms of words that used to only have a few. But he gets too giddy when he includes the telltale word seventeen times in a half-page of dialogue. And his imitation rap by the fictionally famous “Doctor Dis” that churns beneath every sweaty dance party is hilarious, though it’s not supposed to be: “spears her haunches Dirty Sanchez dude what wants her nude and slutty pseudo-ruts her butt so rudely taunts...
...RAP WARS...
...Samita’s campaign slogan? Not quite. This one is courtesy of our friends in New Haven. “The Game 2004 (Fuck Harvard),” a special release by Yale rap squad 108 Tongues, dropped days before that glorified cockfight went down at Harvard Stadium...