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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…
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Seraphina Joy Clarke
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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…
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Randy
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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…
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Deja L.
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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…
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Tabia N. Mullings
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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
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Soulpolitan
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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
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Greg J.
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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
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Rosa Delgado
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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
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Quinn Baptiste
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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
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Raya Sinclair
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Album Review: I Can See by Nick Hakim
The Queens-based singer writes love songs with the family in the next room, a sister talking to grandpa in the attic, a brother’s guitar downstairs.
Jul 24
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Kendra Oluwaseyi
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Album Review: Did the Rain Stop? by Felix Ames
Writing again with producer Calvin Valentine, the R&B songwriter turns a lost love, a heavy cup, and a family name he’d sooner bury into unambiguous…
Jul 24
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Cierra Marcel
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Album Review: Ego Ruins Everything by Kenyon Dixon
Watts’ steadiest R&B craftsman plays a man who’d rather go numb than admit he misses her.
Jul 24
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Phil
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