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Juno Records | Even on the troubled streets of Detroit, Black Milk has been steadily delivered through these rough economic times, providing an original, distinct concoction of different R&B ingredients for fans needing an escape. 2008’s Popular Demand proved to be one of the sleeper hip hop gems of the year, seeing the rising star collaborate with legends like Pharoah Monch and others. With the new release of Tronic, the listener hears Black Milk improve on his already vintage sound, incorporating a series of new influences and new collaborations, and showing up fresh at record store doorsteps across the rest of the country. Now to go overkill with the milk metaphors: B.M. may prove to be a bit of an acquired taste, but its eclectic flavor is already proving to have what the hip-hop star predicted would be a longer shelf life.

Words by Jeff Nau

Black Milk – Give the Drummer Sum

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I’m down for breaking records. Not smashing my record collection (although it is quite smashing), but absolutely tearing about the expectations of the past with fresh goals, new levels of standard and freakishly potent ambition. One time, I won three consecutive races in what my friends and I like to call the Suburban Shopping Cart Downhill Finals. I am legally obligated to tell you that the police were eventually called and we returned every single tooth that we could find to the man of whom they once belonged (or so he claimed). But there are also those glorious aspirations that we can all appreciate (not just a gaggle of neighbors and your local police force), like when a young label-turned-collective by the name of Exchange Bureau decides to slam 18 of their musicians and artists into an hour and perform it all live on the Red Bull Music Academy stage.
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Remember your first kiss? That sweetly awkward pounce in the shadows of the roller rink, timing your approach and nervously wiping your sweaty palms against your adolescent denim? It makes for fond memories and hilarious fodder — how your teeth accidentally slammed against each other’s, how you just couldn’t figure out where to put your hands. Believe it or not, all people go through this awesome awkwardness — even those super cool musicians you see on ten-foot high stages, covered in fog and professional lighting. But when you translate that romantic teenage fondling into, say, visiting and also performing in the United States for the very first time, you’ve got Krazy Baldhead — suitcases in tow — soaking up the sights of the country via Detroit, performing live on the Red Bull Music Academy stage and planting that first sloppy kiss with the land of fast food and big flag dreams.

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