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Album Review: Confessions of a People Pleaser by CJ Monét
Her debut hands the first words on the record to her late grandmother. Everything that follows is written under that supervision.
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Janelle K. Moore
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Album Review: Circa 01’ by Kastaway & Backpack Beatz
Kastaway and Backpack Beatz were eleven and thirteen when The Blueprint dropped. Circa 01’ remembers that year from the inside instead of curating it.
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: The Premise by Ill Conscious & Finn
A Baltimore rapper writes a sermon disguised as a rap album.
6 hrs ago
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Mantequilla by Recognize Ali & Giallo Point
Eleven boom-bap tracks of executioner bars from an Accra MC who Praises Allah and stages salaam-position sex boasts in the same eight bars.
14 hrs ago
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Blaise Freeman
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Album Review: no country for old men by doPE (Chuck D & John Densmore)
An emcee at 65 and a drummer at 81 turn an Org Music gatefold into a record that argues with the easy idea of an elder statesman.
14 hrs ago
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: Briana by Bri Babineaux
On her third album, Bri Babineaux writes God in the second-person grammar of an R&B love song, and questions whether the form can carry an artist who…
14 hrs ago
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Jamila W.
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Rob Base Only Needed the Beat and a Microphone
The beat of his song “It Takes Two” was to hip-hop what the guitar solo from “Stairway to Heaven” was to rock. Rapper Rob Base has now died at the age…
May 25
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Terryl Jameson
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The Puppetmaster of Rosbach
Boney M.’s gigantic success in the 1970s is actually a dark chapter in pop music history. At its center: producer Frank Farian. An ARD documentary tells…
May 25
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Stay in the Room as Long as You Can
New songs from kwn, Glenn Lewis, Tiffany Evans, Blxst, and Daley—none of them willing to play it safe. Slow jams, self-worth anthems, and reunion…
May 24
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Soulpolitan
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The Handguide to ‘90s Hip-Hop/R&B Soundtracks
Hollywood paid the bill for rap and R&B’s best A&R work all decade. Year by year, these are the comps that came out of the deal.
May 23
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Album Review: EXPERIMENTAL RAP by JPEGMAFIA
JPEGMAFIA spent half a decade letting his provocation outrun his writing. On EXPERIMENTAL RAP, they arrive at the same time, and leave nowhere safe to…
May 22
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Nehemiah
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Album Review: Love You, Mean It by Patrick Paige II
A relationship album that mistakes the recording booth for a confession booth. It survives the mistake as every lyric tells on the man in the booth.
May 22
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Danica Ford
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