2024
Tag: New York
audio review : Richmond Hill ( album ) … Masta Ace + Marco Polo
Masta Ace and Marco Polo are skilled at what they do, especially Polo. His beats are pure hip-hop; the boom-bap type that originated in the ghettos of New York City. He’s actually from Richmond Hill, Ontario, hence the title. Breukelen native Masta Ace has been dropping funky rhymes since The Symphony, but he’s sometimes too innovative for his own good.
The rapper has long had the tendency to limit himself to specific lyrical concepts that, over the course of a whole song, come across as somewhat gimmicky. The first word of almost every bar on Connections connects with the word before it. Outside Inside, with C-Red, puts the title words on repeat. All I Want, with Wordsworth, is a list of Christmas wishes.
Brooklyn Heights, all about what it “ain’t”, is one of the best songs though, along with Below The Clouds and Heat Of The Moment. Plant Based and Life Music deal with health, but Ace stays silent on the topic of MS. As a sequel, Hill is on par with the first Story. The worst bits are still the skits, though there should be an epilogue to match the prologue.
my rating : 3 of 5
2024
Richmond Hill ( album ) … Masta Ace + Marco Polo
2024
Truth Versus News Incorporated [ 2024 February 18 ]
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Soulful Nights [ NYC ] ( DJ set ) … DJ Spivey
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Back 2 The Party ( song ) … Salt N Pepa
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a News 4 report about alleged abuse inside a Queens group home
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nbcnewyork.com
Van Leeuwen French Ice Cream : Campfire S’mores
It’s a fun concept. Ice Cream and S’mores from an actual Campfire make for an otherwise impractical combination. It’s the (“toasted”) marshmallows that damper the experience. They simply don’t; that is specifically to say their gooey texture doesn’t; mesh well with Ice Cream. It would be much better without them.
my rating : 3 of 5
an Adorama compilation : Edit And Chill
2024
a Red Eagle Politics analysis of how Donald Trump can win the 2024 general presidential election in a landslide
2024
redeaglepolitics.com
NTD Evening News [ 2024 January 24 ]
2024
ntd.com