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Album Review: All Eyes On Shiest by Pooh Shiesty
Recording from federal custody ahead of a February trial, Pooh Shiesty makes incarceration his subject and gets more comedy and grief from it than most…
 • Shatter the Standards and Quinn Baptiste
Album Review: NO ME ARREPIENTO DE SENTIR TANTO by Karol G
The urbano star’s bitter and unhurried new album is an account of the long middle of a breakup, where the wanting and the resentment share every song.
 • Shatter the Standards and Rosa Delgado
Album Review: Dragon’s Breath by Inspectah Deck & PA Dre
The Wu-Tang MC runs his hustle like a job with hours, a payroll, and a supervisor. The writing about work and betrayal is the best thing here, as the…
 • Shatter the Standards and Miles Everette
Blues at the Top with Bessie Smith
Through the combination of toughness in her temperament, her technical command, and her stature as a performer, Bessie Smith would give vocal blues some…
 • Blackpolitan and Imani Raven
Album Review: We Will Be Brief by Defcee & steel tipped dove
Two years after steel tipped dove mailed the beats, Defcee came back and rapped his way through his debts, his age, and a business he calls a mass…
 • Shatter the Standards and Koda Lin
Album Review: What Does It Take to Bloom? by Somi
Somi wrote and starred in a musical about Miriam Makeba before making this, and her own songs here put grief, blame, and leaving in plain, hard terms.
 • Shatter the Standards and Osei Addae
Album Review: WD, Vol. 1 by DyMe-A-DuZiN
Twenty years into his career, DyMe-A-DuZiN turns every grievance back onto himself, and the album is excellent hip-hop.
 • Shatter the Standards and Devon Kai Brooks
Dawn Richard Is Clocking In for Love
The legacy of Static Major turns up in the credits of a new Brent Faiyaz single, while Lalah Hathaway gives her first verse of the week to the…
 • Soulpolitan
JAŸ-Z, Kanye West and the Road 2 the Throne
Teacher and student, partners, comrades, and each other’s fiercest rivals. The story of JAŸ-Z and Kanye, who built a joint album together.
 • Shatter the Standards and Reginald Marcel
Milestones: Watch the Throne by Kanye West & JAŸ-Z
The luxury-rap era’s high-water, built under a paranoid lockdown at the Mercer Hotel by two rappers coasting through an expensive hour, with a core that…
 • Shatter the Standards and Owen Baptiste
Milestones: 8701 by Usher
The Atlanta R&B prodigy’s third album was gutted by Napster and rebuilt by a committee of hitmakers who bet everything on his voice over his…
 • Shatter the Standards and Kendra Oluwaseyi
New Music Drops: August 7, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of August 7th. We know it can be…
 • Shatter the Standards
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