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Album Review: Fidelity by Yaya Bey
The Queens songwriter’s fourth full-length is a self-produced record of grief. She counts what’s been taken from her and leaves the numbers unrounded.
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Osei Addae
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Album Review: Forever Ends Someday by Wesley Joseph
Three years of patient writing turn into a debut that calls youth something borrowed and grief something you repay by singing it forward.
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: 10 Til’ Midnight by Snoop Dogg
The 22nd Snoop record rests on the same premise as its sleeve. He bought Death Row, he is from where he is from, and the kids need to know.
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Murffey Zavier
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New Music Drops: April 17, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of April 17th. We know it can be…
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Album Review: Superbloom by Jessie Ware
The London singer closes her disco trilogy with immaculate songs to her husband. One of them catches him dancing with someone else.
Apr 16
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: KONNAKOL by ZAYN
On the British-Pakistani singer’s fifth solo record, a Carnatic percussion concept does the heritage work. The English lyrics are still the lost-love…
Apr 16
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Oliver I. Martin
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Milestones: All for You by Janet Jackson
After her darkest and most confessional album, Jackson came back grinning, newly single, and talking very specifically about what she wanted done to her…
Apr 16
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Maya LeRoux
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Milestones: Ice Cream Man by Master P
The first album to prove that a New Orleans rapper could own his masters and still go platinum. Percy Miller bet on distribution, not bars.
Apr 16
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa by Sexyy Red
Her fourth tape is the first that the St. Louis rapper has built like a real mixtape, DJ Holiday hosting throughout and the trapper-rapper distinction…
Apr 16
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Tabia N. Mullings
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Album Review: Floetry the Extension by millkzy
millkzy writes live chamber rap as short-story scenes. The scene-writing carries his self-coined style better than the defense ever did.
Apr 15
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Wesley Durham
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Album Review: Mudbrown by Kumail
Kumail’s second album is the rare record in Voodoo’s long shadow that shows up with the homework done. Love songs mean the offer; refusal songs mean the…
Apr 15
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Kendra Vale
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Album Review: Outsider by Tiwayo
Tiwayo disappeared, stayed gone, and wrote an album that calls itself an outsider’s LP without a trace of irony.
Apr 15
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Asa McKenzie
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