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  Rap Release of the Week: The Alchemist's 'Yacht Rock'

  November 8, 2012 – <p><i>Yacht Rock</i> is the Alchemist's two-part, Dilla's <i>Donuts</i>-gone-cocaine-crazy collage of <i>Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous</i> clips, samples from sunbaked '70s pop and '80s cheese rock, punctuated with raps from Action Bronson, Blu, Roc Marciano, and others. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Sherman Hemsley's Proto-Swag

  July 27, 2012 – Sherman Hemsley, best known for portraying George Jefferson on the television show The Jeffersons, died earlier this week. Hemsley twisted a white-created cipher of a character into something closer to a a living, breathing black dude. …
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  Hear the Alchemist's Twisted Full 'Russian Roulette'

  July 17, 2012 – Though super-producer the Alchemist is best known for producing Walkman-bangers for Nas, Mobb Deep, and Jadakass, he's increasingly indulging in an avant-garde streak, first in the lo-fi splatterwave of his group Gangrene and now with the magnum opus Russian Roulette. Featuring a War and Peace-sized cast of all of our favorite contemporary rappers (Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, Mr. …
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• The Alchemist, 'Russian Roulette' (Decon)

  July 17, 2012 – Rap cosmonaut and crew fueled on proto-electro UFO crashes, Tarkovsky, VHS horror, fusion jazz solos. …
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