May 22, 2013
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Eyedea & Abilities
High-concept hip-hop
by James M. Manheim
posted 11/1/2004
The sheer cleverness of the Minneapolis hip-hop duo Eyedea & Abilities begins with their name, a punning reflection on the genre's fundamental duality of rapper and disc jockey, of conceptual and kinetic energies. But that's just a teaser for their slender but remarkable output of high-concept hip-hop, music that explores the limits of the verbal
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