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Album Review: God Must Really Love Me by Tori Kelly
On her sixth album, made in the first year of motherhood, Tori Kelly sings about a marriage that holds, a new son, and the God she thanks for both.
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: DIRTY BLONDE by Bebe Rexha
Bebe Rexha’s fourth album hides prayers and panic inside dance-pop hooks built for a packed room. Her plainest, meanest writing about herself beats…
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Oliver I. Martin
Album Review: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love by Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo writes love as poison in the blood and a doctor who finds nothing. On her third album, the diagnosis runs from the first kiss to the…
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Darryl Keyes
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Why Freddie Gibbs’ “Axxtion” Is the Rap Song of the Summer
Rapping straight over Mad Cobra’s 1992 “Flex” record without touching a word of it, Gibbs spends a minute in pure pleasure mode and gives the summer its…
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Javon Bailey
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Album Review: My Mess, My Heart, My Life. by Myles Smith
The Luton singer’s debut is most alive inside his childhood home; the love songs filling its back half could belong to anyone.
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Darryl Keyes
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Mixtape Review: I Heard You Paint Houses by Conway the Machine & DJ Whoo Kid
Conway rhymes over beats jacked from 50 Cent, Eminem, and Biggie while DJ Whoo Kid hollers across the top. The writing makes the borrowed production…
Jun 10
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Devon Kai Brooks
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Album Review: Waxing In Mecca by John Brown the Rapper & Da Beatminerz
Two years in Mickey Factz’s lyricism program, John Brown turns these beats into a clinic.
Jun 10
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Joelle Figueroa
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Album Review: Fortune & Glory by Paul Wall
Paul Wall raps about money the way he always has, but the details have moved to crypto, the election, and cold plunges.
Jun 10
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Rafael Greene
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The R&B of 2016, Ten Years On
A special look back at the year R&B got strange. Mýa funded her own Grammy nominee, Sean and Jhené played a couple falling apart in real time, a…
Jun 10
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Wednesday Roundups #153: 20 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Imani Imani, Paul Wall, Navy Blue, Smoke DZA, Jalen Ngonda, Latanya Alberto, Inayah, Sparklmami, Lakecia Benjamin, S!MONE…
Jun 10
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Album Review: The Way the Light Looks by Eligh & FAZE.ONE
Forty-six and content with no repeats, Eligh writes fatherhood and recovery plainer than the nanobot and matrix conceits he hangs beside them.
Jun 9
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Harry Brown
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Deciphering Jourden’s “The $triker”
On a single that opens with a cry for help on a Brooklyn corner, the rapper narrates her own drugging and knife-in-the-back escape, then spends four…
Jun 9
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Okoye
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