Best known as a beatmaker for the likes of Slum Village, the Detroit-based Dilla-disciple Black Milk is respected as a more-than-capable producer with a penchant for bringing funk and soul samples to life, aided by unbelievably crisp drums. But the lyrical content of last year’s ambitiously-titled Album of the Year, shaped by the deaths of both friends and family members in a single year, takes his MC shine to a level on par with noted bar-for-bar beasts Elzhi and Royce Da 5’9″. With a record title that ambitious, the bar is set highbut Black Milk is too talented to fall short of his own self-imposed tongue-in-cheek audacity. With Candit, Grynch, Sol. NICK FELDMAN
Wed., Feb. 23, 8 p.m., 2011
