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Milestones: Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
George Clinton built a psychedelic funk band so volatile it couldn’t survive its own best work.
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Imani Raven
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The Loverman Asks Permission Now
Tank flips a Floetry classic into a question only you can answer. Plus: Coco Jones’s two-minute glow-up, Masego’s basement-party invitation, and a…
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30 JAŸ-Z Storytelling Records Ranked by Craft
In honor of JAŸ-Z 30, a countdown of the narrative songs that are built the best. Structure, pacing, dialogue, tension, perspective, characterization…
Jul 11
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Phil
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Album Review: WHY EQUALS SELF by Raz Fresco
The Toronto rapper-producer turns Five-Percent lessons and a family split by borders into the deepest album of his career.
Jul 11
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Album Review: Alchemy by Davion Farris
The eldest of Inglewood’s Farris brothers devoted years to writing songs for other singers to take home. On thirteen songs of grown two-voice R&B, he…
Jul 11
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Noura Haddad
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Album Review: Underdogs Win Eventually by Bizzy Crook
Bizzy Crook gave a decade to other people’s hits while his own family went quiet. In Underdogs Win Eventually, he writes the silence better than the…
Jul 11
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Album Review: The Ends, Never Ends by Joe James
Thirteen homes before secondary school, homeless at sixteen, years of silence with his mum. The Essex rapper’s debut turns all of it into the most…
Jul 10
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: The Real Me by Future
Four years after his last solo album, Future promises to be the man behind the Pluto alias. He keeps the promise on a handful of songs that hold his…
Jul 10
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Phil
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Album Review: NEVER SAY DIE by PFG
J. Cole went home to Fayetteville to produce PFG’s NEVER SAY DIE, and the Sheltuh rapper fills his minimal, bass-heavy beats with the hardest, most…
Jul 10
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Love/Hate II by The-Dream
Nineteen years after Love/Hate turned bedroom synth-R&B into a serial, the Radio Killa returns with Usher, Pusha T, and Rick Ross and picks the dirty…
Jul 10
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Tai Lawson
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Album Review: RHYTHM & MELODY by Sango
On his debut for Mass Appeal, the Seattle producer runs Detroit rap, New Orleans bounce, Chicago footwork, and Rio funk through one set of top-tier…
Jul 10
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F. Qureshi
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New Music Drops: July 10, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of July 10th. We know it can be…
Jul 9
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