Beyond Dilla and Dipset: Can Hip-Hop Deliver in 2010?

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Chris Faraone

For a break from radical posturing and whizzing bullets, 2010 promises spreads from two of the genre’s most reliable beat specialists. Lucky for us, former Aesop Rock collaborator BLOCKHEAD’s The Music Scene (Ninja Tune, due January 12) arrived at the Phoenix months ago and is surely his most mesmerizing sonic spring break ever. I have yet to hear The Colossus (RJ’s Electrical Connections, January 19) from instrumentally inclined stylist RJD2, but if anyone can bounce back from a lackluster performance like 2007’s The Third Hand, it’s him.

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