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Staff pick: Injury Reserve and Armand Hammer at Skully’s

Columbus Alive 25 May 2022

It’s a celebration of the cathartic and absurd ... Armand Hammer, on the other hand, revels in the grit and grime of Wu-Tang histrionics ... There's something potent in the quick delivery of album highlight “Roaches Don’t Fly,” wherein the old-school, Def Jux-inspired textures and hypnotic glooming can do serious psychic damage.

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El-P Looks Back at 20 Years of Fantastic Damage

Spin 14 May 2022

Def Jux ended between I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead and Cancer 4 Cure—did it come about because you were doing too much at once? ... As much as I like to think I had the bravery to foresight to step away from Def Jux because of those reasons, it really had to collapse underneath me before I could reemerge as an artist.

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Fantastic Damage Turns 20

Stereogum 13 May 2022

Sept. 11, 2001 ... Eminem, Cam’ron, Talib Kweli) ... 11 ... And as the primary producer for his independent label, Definitive Jux, he had already left his warped, cacophonous mark on the scene ... His production — for himself, for others on Def Jux, and more recently for Run The Jewels — has always garnered praise for being futuristic ... .

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Our Top Picks for The Freakout Weekender

The Stranger 30 Mar 2022

Sponsored ... Fans of '90s underground-rap powerhouses such as Def Jux and Rawkus and of heavy, angel-dusted unit New Kingdom will get shivers of nostalgia while listening to Armand Hammer albums such as 2013's Race Music, 2020's Shrines, and 2021's Haram, the latter slightly more accessible yet still disorienting, thanks to the Alchemist's production.

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Y’all Shouldn’t Have Let The World Gas Jack Harlow

Stereogum 09 Mar 2022

Imagine being Jack Harlow. It shouldn’t be too hard. Jack Harlow is not special. Fundamentally, Harlow is just some guy. He’s a reasonably talented, reasonably good-looking 23-year-old white guy from Kentucky. (He’ll be 24 next week ... How? Why? ... But that was not Jack Harlow’s ceiling ... 1 ... I’m ready for a whole new Def Jux renaissance ... .

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Louisville Rappers Join Forces On ‘Superlative’ New Kr8vn8vs Compilation. We Break It Down Song By Song.

LEO Weekly 15 Oct 2021

The Kr8vn8vs community has the same energy as the Wu-Tang Clan or Def Jux, independent artists who put their egos aside for the greater good. Like Def Jux, Kr8vn8vs recently released the first in what is hopefully many volumes of their N8VS series, a compilation that highlights the superlative work of all involved ... “The N8VS” – feat ... by Dom B ... .

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XXX Turns 10

Stereogum 13 Aug 2021

Related ... XXX shows off that varied taste, veering from Detroit’s best stab at grime (“Bruiser Brigade”) to funky, noise-blown boom-bap (“Fields”) to psychedelic loops (“Adderall Admiral”) to introspective warmth (“DNA”) to Def Jux-style dystopian electro-rap (“Die Like A Rockstar”) ... .

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Blue Chips: AJ Suede

Spin 28 Jun 2021

To read previous columns, click here ... He spent the rest of the early 2010s working day jobs, digging into the Def Jux catalog, and shuttling between family homes in Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, where he embedded himself in the rap scene surrounding streetwear brands like Мишка, which released 2015 project, Lefthanded Virgo ... I went there with no plan.”.

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SPIN Sessions Presents: Hollis

Spin 19 Jun 2021

Hollis is an incredibly conscious artist and wordsmith that uses her voice literally and metaphorically ... I was super into Def Jux Records and in general became a total backpack rap nerd ... We loved artists like Mos Def, Medusa, Ursula Rucker, K’Naan, and my local favorite Blue Scholars, who embodied the spirit of hip-hop as social change ... .

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Behind The Walls Of The Iron Galaxy: El-P, Cannibal Ox & Philip K. Dick

The Quietus 10 May 2021

We’re inside Definitive Jux, lit by the glare of a boxy TV set ... The film is Bazooka Tooth, a Def Jux time capsule ... Similar to Philip K ... Sleeping bag mound and whiff of stale cig butts ... People are rarely one thing ... Dick ... With Def Jux, El desired true self-determination ... “Def Jux was a self affirmation,” said Curly Castro on The Next Movement podcast ... .

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We’ve Got A File On You: Nick Thorburn

Stereogum 03 Mar 2021

Even in an age where everyone in indie is a multi-hyphenate, Nick Thorburn’s done a lot ... This shit is a bad penny, man. I can’t shake it.” ... NICK THORBURN ... It was very strange ... I first met him in Clinton Hill and just went up to him and said “What’s up?” Jamie had previously introduced me to Cannibal Ox and Def Jux in general, so I was a fan of El-P’s ... .

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Stream Dark Time Sunshine’s New Album Lore, Their First Since 2012

Stereogum 04 Feb 2021

Today, they’ve returned for their new LP Lore, a collection of flickering, personal, athletic music that recalls some of the sounds of early-’00s Def Jux rap expressionism ... Ferreira and Homeboy Sandman ... Stream the album below ... tombreihan ... .

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Dark Time Sunshine – “The Rite Kids” (Feat. R.A.P. Ferreira & Homeboy Sandman)

Stereogum 22 Jan 2021

The duo hasn’t dropped an album since 2012’s ANX ... Recorded between May and August of last year, the album finds Ozzborn reflecting on recovery from years of trauma; his cadences and Zavala’s shapeshifting beats will probably appeal to fans of El-P, Aesop Rock, and the whole Def Jux extended family ... Ferreira and Homeboy Sandman ... .

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Aesop Rock’s New Album Is A Dizzy Vision Quest

Stereogum 18 Nov 2020

Summer 2002. I’m at someone’s house some early evening, drinking ... The show costs $14 ... After watching the flame burn out on his Def Jux indie empire, El-P regrouped, got together with the guy from “Snappin’ And Trappin'” and “The Whole World,” and remade himself as a bomb-throwing festival-rap star ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... .

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Blue Chips: July 2020 in New Hip-Hop

Spin 31 Jul 2020

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a new starting five, a group of rappers who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers or forgettable flashes in the pan ... Louis ... Louis ... These are introspective and dense stream of consciousness raps influenced by DOOM and Def Jux ... .