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Album Review: Rite of Passage by insyt.
The Canadian rapper-producer made most of these beats himself and raps over them about staying alive as day labor. He carries the weight his verses…
10 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards and Lance “LX” Brooks
Album Review: Greed Tastes Like Power by SUBSTANCE810
SUBSTANCE810 raps about money as maintenance work here, from credit repair to reinvested checks to a box truck at the post office.
10 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards and Harry Brown
Album Review: Kingdom Music for the Hard Rocks by Cargo Cults
Over Zilla Rocca’s hard production, the New York MC swaps wisdom for arcade quarters and funeral suits, a bracing and very funny account of what your…
10 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards and Phil
The Many Facets of Roberta Flack
While most of Roberta Flack’s albums have just been reissued, the time has come to reconsider her work, which brought out the best in every form of…
18 hrs ago • Blackpolitan and Seraphina Joy Clarke
Album Review: My Uncle Told Me Some Real Ass Sh*t on the Phone Yesterday by zayALLCAPS
Producing nearly all of it himself, the rapper turns a run of unanswered calls into a funny, self-incriminating album about needing people who don’t…
Jul 26 • Shatter the Standards and Randy
Album Review: Bars Not Dead. Vol. 2: He’s On Fire! by Kai Ca$h
The Brooklyn rapper hands his firmest writing to verses with no hook underneath for a diaristic rap album that settles for a good line where a song…
Jul 26 • Shatter the Standards and Deja L.
Mixtape Review: Her, Actually by Bankroll Ni
The Atlanta rapper builds every song out of money owed, men taken, and women told exactly where they stand. On her debut mixtape, the joke-writing holds…
Jul 26 • Shatter the Standards and Tabia N. Mullings
The Laziest Apology in R&B Is a Haiku
Summer situationship ultimatums, 1 a.m. rescue missions, and a courtship strategy with a syllable count.
Jul 26 • Soulpolitan
Album Review: WHAT IF I SAY NO? by Songer
The British rapper’s sixth album follows the midweek drinkers home and answers the kid he was in 2019.
Jul 25 • Shatter the Standards and Greg J.
Album Review: EQUILIBRIVM II by Anitta
The Rio singer writes protection as household equipment, coarse salt and amulets and Ogum’s shield, across seventeen songs of samba, coco and reggae.
Jul 25 • Shatter the Standards and Rosa Delgado
Album Review: Pretty Girlz Run the World by Loe Shimmy
The South Florida rapper dedicates an album to women and grades them like merchandise.
Jul 25 • Shatter the Standards and Quinn Baptiste
Album Review: THE NAIJAMERICAN DREAM by Adanna Duru
The Orange County R&B singer turns cheating men, fake friends, and ignored therapy advice into grudge songs with jokes in them. Her love songs go just…
Jul 24 • Shatter the Standards and Raya Sinclair
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