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Album Review: keepsake by Ragz Originale
The Skepta collaborator’s sophomore album keeps asking for somebody and barely waits for an answer. It is slim, warm, and gone before the feeling fades.
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Okoye
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Album Review: PRAY FOR ME by RAAHiiM
RAAHiiM talks to God about women and talks to women about God. The confusion between those conversations is the truest thing here.
5 hrs ago
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Jill Wannasa
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Milestones: Street Songs by Rick James
Eight songs about sex, poverty, and police, written by a man who was weighing whether to become a carpenter. The filthiest and most honest funk album…
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Reuben Dara
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Album Review: Machetes & Micheladas by Coyote & Statik Selektah
The Hawthorne duo and Statik Selektah make bilingual boom bap that covers lotería, drive-by narratives, political fury, and letters to firstborn sons…
Apr 6
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Joelle Figueroa
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Every J. Cole Interview Makes the Last One Worse
The more Cole talks, the less any of it holds together. His Fall Off press run is a case study in how not to explain yourself.
Apr 6
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Rian Frost
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Album Review: Santa Rosa by Fat Ray & Raphy
Detroit’s underground keeps feeding itself. Fat Ray and Raphy run back the Santa Barbara formula with better bars and bigger names.
Apr 5
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Shattered Glass by Daniel Son & Futurewave
Toronto’s most prolific underground duo keeps sending dispatches from the same frozen block. The consistency borders on unreasonable.
Apr 5
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Xavier Thomas
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Love Songs for Grown Folks With Standards
Mary J. Blige won’t bargain, Johnny Venus won’t stop apologizing, LAYA flirts through GPS, PJ Morton won’t rush, and India Shawn plays no games.
Apr 5
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Album Review: ... say it again ? by AJRadico
The Queens rapper’s self-produced debut chases women across every song without catching much besides a vibe. His ear for a beat deserves better than his…
Apr 4
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Randy
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Album Review: 6WA by BigXthaPlug & 600 Entertainment
BigXthaPlug and his 600 crew drape themselves in N.W.A. mythology on a brisk gangsta-rap showcase. The Compton debt is heavy, but the Dallas dirt keeps…
Apr 4
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Murffey Zavier
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Album Review: Art Monk by Patty Honcho & Wiz Kelly
A Paterson rapper and a sample-digger name their album after a wide receiver who waited decades for Canton. The comparison isn’t flattering, as Patty…
Apr 4
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Owen Baptiste
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Album Review: rent due by bbymutha
A Chattanooga rapper on her third album and her seventh life talks shit, counts grudges, and still can’t afford to quit.
Apr 3
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L. Ari James
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