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Album Review: Hot Seat by Domani
On Hot Seat, Domani sounds like two different rappers. One of them is worth following beyond the beef cycle.
3 hrs ago
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Alexandria Elise
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Album Review: Better Than Yesterday by Lebra Jolie
On her Interscope debut LP, the Houston freestyler pours out Fifth Ward grief and nonstop bravado in unequal measure.
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Jill Wannasa
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Album Review: Words Are Spells, Thoughts Are Magic by Witch Prophet
Witch Prophet’s fourth album turns brain tumor recovery into plain-spoken demands—for protection, for boundaries, and for the right to want.
15 hrs ago
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Janelle K. Moore
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LaRussell’s Engineer Told Him Not to Drop “Heaven Sent,” and He Should Have Listened
The Vallejo rapper put Adolf Hitler, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump in the same bar as Malcolm X and MLK. His defense crumbles on contact with the…
15 hrs ago
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Jamila W.
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EP Review: Detour by Samara Cyn
On her third EP in eighteen months, Samara Cyn turns self-knowledge into a weapon she refuses to share. She can see exactly what’s wrong with you, and…
Mar 22
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Lillian Sharpe
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Album Review: Highs + Lows by KADEEM.
A ghost musician steps to the mic and lets a wide array of talented guests confess on his behalf. The instrumentals never falter, but the voices carry…
Mar 22
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Jen Mauvais
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These Five R&B Songs All Have Something to Confess
Miles Caton’s post-Sinners gut-punch, Coco Jones in lovergirl mode, a shameless anthem from FLO, Tank Ball joins Lucky, and 6LACK catches something he…
Mar 22
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Soulpolitan
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Album Review: WAVO FOREVER by Hus KingPin
Hus KingPin spent years stockpiling Wu-Tang features like contraband, and WAVO FOREVER finally cashes them in, though most of the bills were spent long…
Mar 21
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Danica Ford
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Milestones: House of Balloons by The Weeknd
Abel Tesfaye sang about getting high and getting laid like someone who hated both. Nobody in R&B had sounded this tired of pleasure.
Mar 21
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: I Guess I'll Never Learn by S. Fidelity
S. Fidelity’s third LP runs seven vocalists through the same doomed love cycle. Most of them sing the heartbreak better than he could, but chose where…
Mar 20
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Sabine Okafemi
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Milestones: Part III by 112
A group in full possession of itself, seizing control of its own sound. The third album arrived not as refinement but as rupture—harder, stranger, and…
Mar 20
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Jill Wannasa
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Album Review: When the City Sleeps by Alex Isley
On her highly anticipated major label debut LP, Alex Isley sings about love the way most people think about it: after midnight, with nowhere left to…
Mar 20
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Tori Hammond
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