Articles Posted by John Dukes
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Straight Outta Brabant: Growin’ Up
Rocking 4XL pants and knowing every Cormega guest-verse by heart isn’t gonna get you paid nor does it get you laid. So what’s a young hip-hop head living in an economic meltdown to do?
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Straight Outta Brabant: The Infamous
18 Years after its release, ‘The Infamous’ is still one of the greatest rap albums of all time. Dukes can explain you exactly why, and if you disagree he will mean-mug you until you until you cry, ya lil’ half-way crook.
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Straight Outta Brabant: G.O.A.T.Face Killah
In honor of Ghostface Killah dropping his new album this week, we forced Dukes to finally explain why he thinks that Ghostface is the greatest rapper of all time.
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Straight Outta Brabant: Selective Outrage
Dukes never listens to the fat cop unless it’s unavoidable, but he does have some questions about the controversy over Rick Ross’ rape lyrics, and other aspects of selective outrage in society.
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Straight Outta Brabant: Gangsta Nation
Dukes spent his Easter weekend camped out in front of the TV for an A-Team marathon, which made him reflect on the relation between Hollywood’s action flick classics and the Cold War.
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Straight Outta Brabant: Charity
Buying an ugly bracelet from a fraudulent cyclist does not equal a donation. It’s called trade, transaction, not charity, and Dukes has had his fill.
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Straight Outta Brabant: Studio Time
Dukes’ his writing frequency has taken a dip due to hangovers and worries about moving out of his beloved crackie Red Light district, but the primary reason for his self-inflicted hermit phase is another one – it’s studio time again!
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Straight Outta Brabant: Collective Grieving
Hip-hop probably has one of the unhealthiest ways of reminiscing over the dead. Every year this becomes painfully obvious whenever the date of Pac or Biggie’s passing comes up…
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Straight Outta Brabant: Drug Of Choice
Everybody’s got their drug of choice, no need to fret about it. Unfortunately, health freaks and overzealous anti-addiction agencies have managed to ruin rap concerts by driving everyone into separate zones.
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Straight Outta Brabant: No Mistakes Allowed
Due to being hung the f*** over from Carnaval and Valentine’s day, Dukes is a bit later than usual but on point as ever. Dive in for his 2 cents on bonus tracks.
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Straight Outta Brabant: Carnaval
Most of my readers probably don’t have a clue what Brabant is and what’s it all about. It’s time I give you some insight in what’s widely accepted to be the cultural highlight of every full blooded Brabo’s year: Carnaval.
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Straight Outta Brabant: The Hunger
What makes up a good rapper? Some might argue it’s flow, others might say it’s all about vocabulary, retards might argue it’s swag, but to me it’s very simple. It’s the Hunger.
