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Album Review: Soundtrack 2 Get Her Back by Jozzy
A hitmaker’s debut that sings to women without explanation. The pen was always there; the nerve is new.
18 mins ago
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Darryl Keyes
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Milestones: Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite by Maxwell
A self-taught Brooklyn kid made a concept album about monogamy while R&B chased hip-hop, and the label buried it for a year.
18 mins ago
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Renée Holloway
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Album Review: The Internet Killed the Neighborhood by Marlon Craft
His self-funded fourth album turns a Wi-Fi-addled grievance into something worth grieving. Nobody with a label would have bankrolled it.
8 hrs ago
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: STBC! III: "Shifa" by cunabear & Steel Tipped Dove
On a record titled after the Arabic word for healing, cunabear builds rooms for others to rest in.
12 hrs ago
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: Masters of the Artistry by Bop Alloy
The MC-producer duo’s third LP runs on 16 years of jazz-rap partnership and the stubborn belief that showing up counts more than blowing up.
16 hrs ago
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Harry Brown
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Wednesday Roundups #143: 21 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Irreversible Entanglements, rum.gold, Noah Guy, Bellah, dälek, Nickelus F, Olivia Escuyos, chromonicci, Victory, Jozzy…
Apr 1
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March 2026
Album Review: Hagler Hearns by Numbz & Thought Provokah
Thought Provokah maps his career onto Marvin Hagler’s fight record, bout by bout, with real dates and round numbers. The most obsessively researched…
Mar 31
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Joelle Figueroa
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Album Review: Dads at the End of the World by Sole & TELEVANGEL
Sole stopped reading theory and started planting fruit trees. His first LP with TELEVANGEL is the funniest, saddest dad record in rap.
Mar 31
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Wesley Durham
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Album Review: The Undisputed by Nickelus F
Richmond’s most tenured underground rapper self-produced every beat and wrote every bar. Twenty-six years deep with no label and no features, The…
Mar 31
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Tariq Belson
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Album Review: HATE ISLAND by Teller Bank$
The Denver rapper who got swindled out of his house made a record about what guilt costs when the money shows up. He’s arguing with himself and losing.
Mar 31
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Devon Kai Brooks
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Album Review: Scarred and Sacred by SOLCHLD
A poet brought finished words to a jazz trio, and the trio had the sense to get out of her way. SOLCHLD’s debut is spoken word that doesn’t need music…
Mar 30
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Sierra El-Sayed
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Milestones: Parade by Prince & The Revolution
Prince's post-Purple Rain restlessness yielded his most playful and peculiar funk record disguised as a film soundtrack. It also contains the saddest…
Mar 30
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Keziah Amara Reid
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