Sach O used his Shaolin poison to set up your master. Rae’s got the juice now. With the knowledge of an older God and a rekindled fire that has him out-spitting young Turks left and right, The Chef has the “elder rap statesman that can still rap” spot in a sleeper-hold and it doesn’t look […]
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Zilla and I have a theory: Ghost and Rae are the Elaine Benes and George Costanza of the rap world. When one is up, the other must be down. The world’s energy ultimately strives towards balance, even Steven, lay my game down quite flat. So as Stark’s output has become rote (but still blandly very […]
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Raekwon-“Travel Places” August 13, 2010
Rae’s always conceived rap as an episode of No Reservations. He is the Chef, after all. And it is conceivable that Anthony Bourdain may have ingested more illicit substances than Rae–even factoring in this photo. So we go from Caesar’s palace eating salad (presumably Caesar), to nights out in Egypt eating wild rice. A series […]
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The ideal Memorial Day soundtrack if your plans are to make a verite re-creation of Scarface, eat linguine with shrimp scampi, and wear Aztec colored Wally’s with the oyster chain dangling off your ox-neck Orlando Woolridge. Or something. Rae’s latest and greatest are collected here, minus his latest gem “Sunset Strip,” a collaboration with Sick […]
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  A-Z raps have been written by MC’s of nearly every letter –from Aesop Rock to Saigon, with Masta Ace, Blackalicious, Papoose, Busta Rhymes, and Kool G Rap filling in the blanks. But as Sach pointed out, “every decent concept has been done, the Alphabet thing is like the “Rhyme from a bullet’s POV” thing: […]
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The Wu-Massacre trio clearly squandered Def Jam’s art budget on the official album cover, leaving the promo mixtape graphics to the jurisdiction of a stoned intern from Fordham with a rudimentary handle of Photoshop.  Were one to judge a mixtape by its cover, this one would involve Ghostface’s unsavory relationships with gilded eagles, Rae feebly […]
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