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A Hundred Years of Renaming Black Music
The genre a label assigns still sets the radio format, the award, and the budget, so the artists flagging “R&B” are naming a paycheck problem, not…
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Blackpolitan
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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“Spend Dat” Is a Mirror and the Argument Is Aimed at the Glass
Yung Miami put her own face on a hundred-dollar bill and a country that can’t make rent sang it back to her; the spread of “Spend Dat” is a reading on…
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Blackpolitan
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Tabia N. Mullings
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Album Review: Loving This Black Woman by Oriiginelle
An Eswatini rapper courts one Black woman in siSwati and English, then hands the mic to God, to the woman, and to her own anguish.
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Shatter the Standards
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Tunde Albright
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Album Review: Finesse the World 2 by RetcH
A friend killed on his birthday, a brother gone, years of cases. RetcH turns the decade since Finesse the World into his coldest, most cohesive album.
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Shatter the Standards
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Rafael Greene
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Kiss-Offs, Come-Ons, and a Rider Full of Rum
Jorja Smith stays up all night with Wizkid, Fana Hues torches an ex, and Manchester’s finest soul duo ends a long quiet spell. Summer R&B is here.
Jul 5
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Soulpolitan
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Black Music Kept the Minutes of America’s 250 Years
Five hundred schoolchildren in segregated Jacksonville sang “Lift Every Voice” before the country ever heard it; the music Black people made since is…
Jul 4
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Blackpolitan
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Aicha Odilia
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Album Review: xperiment by Ken Carson
Ken Carson stretches Opium rage-trap across 22 songs of drugs, jewelry, and grievance.
Jul 3
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Shatter the Standards
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Kamarion
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Album Review: the garden by sahn
On her second album, the Vallejo singer drags self-help language off the wellness poster and into the dirt, where digging up roots is labor and…
Jul 3
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Shatter the Standards
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Zoe Westfield
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Album Review: Live at the Tabernackle Vol. II by Estee Nack & Mike Shabb
Three years after the first Tabernackle service, the Lynn, Massachusetts MC and his Montreal producer turn in the tightest sustained rapping of Estee…
Jul 3
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Shatter the Standards
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Joelle Figueroa
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Milestones: Breaking Atoms by Main Source
Large Professor was eighteen and finishing the SP-1200 technique of an engineer who had been murdered. The debut he made turned into the school where…
Jul 3
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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New Music Drops: July 3, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of July 3rd. We know it can be a…
Jul 2
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Shatter the Standards
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Album Review: Confessions II by Madonna
Reunited with Stuart Price two decades on, Madonna runs the nonstop mix through grief, exes, and pre-fame New York. Her best album since the original.
Jul 2
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Shatter the Standards
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Charlotte Rochel
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