Rapospective
Rapospective is a media platform that produces documentary-style reviews and video essays on rap music throughout its existence: from rap's foundations as an element of hip hop culture, through its formative years and the much-lionized Golden Age, and to its commercial accomplishments and cultural and global domination.
Rapospective’s founder, Dayo Akinwande, has a Bachelor’s degree in history from UMBC and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Georgetown University. He started covering rap music as a reviewer under the moniker “Balogun” at the now-defunct Epinions.com from 2006 to 2010, and he also worked as a beat reporter on the Washington, D.C. area’s rap scene for the Post Express. After a few years as a full-time political editor, Akinwande transitioned into tech, eventually founding his own consulting firm with IT architecture and technical documentation as areas of expertise.
Love, Peace & R&B | DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism (1998)
O.D.G. Original Digital Gangsta | Ice-T - Seventh Deadly Sin (1999)
Beauty in the Shadows of Death Row | DJ Quik - Safe + Sound (1995)
Do the Ditty ... or Not | Paperboy - The Nine Yards (1993)
An O.G. Struggling with Reality | Ice-T - VI: Return of the Real (1996)
Career Ender...? | Ice-T - Home Invasion (1993)
Construction and Reconstruction | Geto Boys - Making Trouble (1988)
Rippin' Through the Rap Game | DJ Quik - Way 2 Fonky (1992)
The Beginnings of the Alt-Gangsta | DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (1991)
Just Rollin' on a Hundred Spokes | Above the Law - Time Will Reveal (1996)
An Epic Audio Gangsta Movie | Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (1991)
This Brother Is Smooooooth! | Grand Daddy I.U. - Smooth Assassin (1990)
Try to Shut Me Up! | Ice-T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say (1989)
It's My Turn ... to Rap | Stezo - Crazy Noise (1989)
Godfather of Reality Rap | Ice-T - Power (1988)
Black Supermen | Above the Law - Uncle Sam's Curse (1994)
Cold Countin' His Cash | Ice-T - Rhyme Pays (1987)
Life After Compton | Tim Dog - Do or Die (1993)
The First G-Funk Album* | Above the Law - Black Mafia Life (1993)
Who Wanna Rock Right Now? | Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two (1988)
A Taste of the G-Funk Mega Players | Above the Law - Vocally Pimpin' (1991)
The Unfortunate Understudy | Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers (1990)
The Inevitable Fall of Will Smith, the Last of the "Pop Rappers"
Legend Derailed | The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (1989)
A Grand Mission Unfinished | Eazy-E - Str8 Off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton (1996)
Who's the Real G? | Eazy-E - It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa (1993)
Danger Unto Oneself | Eazy-E - 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992)
... and He Found His Way Home | DMX - Exodus (2021)
Devolution and Dissolution | N.W.A - Niggaz4Life (1991)