Articles Posted in the Gumbo Category
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Cuban Linx – All Over
♣ 9 Actors You Never Knew Voiced ’80s Cartoons [Topless Robot] ♣ Forgive But Never Forget: Former Slave Pens Letter To Former Plantation Owner [The Smoking Section] ♣ Tom Brady Used An Illegal Online Stream…
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Murdoc Announces Gorillaz Collaboration With Andre 3000
On February 23 Converse.com will release the next song in the series of artist collbaborations their sponsoring, and fictional Gorillaz bass player Murdoc Niccals just announced that his band will collaborate with Andre 3000 and…
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A$AP Rocky and ScHoolboy Q Announce Collabo Mixtape
Now here’s some good news for everybody that’s been bumping ‘Hands On The Wheel’ as hard as it’s heard around the TRU offices. Yup, me and Schoolboy Q. That’s going to be trill as fuck.…
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BBC Stands By Decision To Censor The Word “Palestine” From Rap Verse
To quote the late, great Amy Winehouse, “What kind of f*ckery is this?” In February 2011, British MC Mic Righteous spit a verse on late night BBC Radio containing the following words: I still have…
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De La Soul’s Plug 1 & Plug 2 – Must Be The Music
Plug One and Two’s project with ‘First Serve’ is shaping up nicely, as the animated style is finally employed towards a video for an actual song. Not that the skits weren’t fun, but when it…
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Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan
‘Chimes Of Freedom’ is a collection of Bob Dylan covers with wildly varying interpretations across many genres. Raphael Saadiq, K’NAAN, Queens Of The Stone Age and Mariachi El Bronx are just a few names among…
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Dilla Lives! Two Unreleased James Yancey Gems
Today James Yancey would’ve turned 38 years old, if his life hadn’t been cut short by dramatic health problems back in 2006. But instead of lamenting the huge loss to music, let’s celebrate the gems…
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DOWNLOAD: Curren$y – Here EP
Look who dropped a brand new EP out of the blue, and for $free,99! Gotta admit I’m posting without prior listen, but I’m always in the market for some new Curren$y, especially at these prices,…
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Planet Asia – Golden State (Video)
Planet Asia celebrates his home base while rocking a Black Belt Jones vibe. The organic 70s vibes really works for him and while I wouldn’t have minded if the video would’ve been a bit more…
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Classics Revisited: A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
These days, the word “classic” is thrown around as loosely as a Nerf ball at a picnic. However, we at TRU consider classics to be something which stand the test of time and have a…
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Pharoahe Monch Ft. Jill Scott – Still Standing (Video)
It’s been almost a year since Pharoahe dropped ‘W.A.R.’ but his signing with Duck Down proves itself a smart move as it apparently creates avenues for him where he can still take his work too.…
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Blu – jesus∆ (Video)
Blu catches a lot of flack for every record besides ‘Below The Heavens’ not sounding anything like ‘Below The Heavens’ but I fully respect his willingness to experiment, besides, ‘No York’ was one of my…
