Masta Artisan
Masta Artisan
Genres: Hip-Hop, rap, internet reviewer, USA, channel awesome
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About Masta Artisan
Daren Jackson, better known by his reviewer handle The Rap Critic or his stage name Masta Artisan, is an alternative hip-hop artist and music critic affiliated with Channel Awesome and ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com. The youngest out of all the reviewers on the site, Jackson, as his handle implies, largely reviews hip-hop or, in the event of a crossover, material that contains either hip-hop music/references to it (as seen in his crossover with Film Brain reviewing "Big Momma's House: Like Father, Like Son") or well-known personalities within the industry (his crossover with Oancitizen for "Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai", which starred and had music produced by RZA). Aside from his work as a critic, Jackson is also an aspiring rapper and has released three albums digitally and through limited physical release. In a parallel to his reviews, his work has a very heavy influence from conscious hip-hop, discussing themes such as the implications of wearing brand name clothing (both socially and on a broader economic scale), the motivations and psychological consequences of being a stereotypical "playa", the entitlement of the modern generation, and the implausibility of the topics discussed by most modern hip-hop artists.
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