No Country for Old (Rap) Men: When K-Pop gets rapping (sorta) right Who knew that Korean pop music would make such good use of 808s and sax samples? Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: For the culture? How valuable is a co-sign from your favourite rapper anyway? Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: The Wild review A track-by-track breakdown of Raekwon's new album Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Just another case of hip-hop history repeating A few narrative suggestions for Russell Simmons and anyone else making *another* rap doco Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Stuff that Tupac Was Better at Than Joey Bada$$ Joey had Twitter lit with his braggadocio this week so here's a thoroughly scientific comparison of the two rappers Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Three Cheers For The Engineer Has modern-day music consumption sent good album mixing to the trash? Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: The legacy of top-heavy LPs Is it better to burn out quickly or slowly fade away? Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Gang Starr’s Daily Operation – the first minimalist rap album The group's iconic record is the perfect example of "Less is more" Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Fans or fam? Robbie tries to understand why some of today's relatively unremarkable rappers attract so many loyal fans Music
No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Robstradamus 2K17 Robbie looks into his Cristal ball to predict the year ahead in hip-hop Music
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