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There’s a JAŸ-Z Bar for Everything: 30 Lines That Became Rap Grammar
Board decks, breakup texts, retirement toasts. For thirty years, people who probably never bought a Jay album have argued in his sentences.
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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The 30 Best Displays of JAŸ-Z’s Lyricism
Reasonable Doubt turned thirty this past June, and the name on the streaming services now carries an umlaut. Three decades in, Shawn Carter is the best…
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Phil
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Milestones: Blank Face LP by ScHoolboy Q
ScHoolboy Q nearly quit rap after touring Oxymoron, then locked himself in a home studio and made the album where every voice on it belongs to somebody…
19 hrs ago
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Shatter the Standards
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Zachary Penn
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Album Review: FATHERS by FATHERS
Kenny Beats, Kiefer, CARRTOONS, and Nate Smith cut their debut in 48 hours while testing a new console in Los Angeles. They came away with live…
Jul 7
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Shatter the Standards
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Lillian Sharpe
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Album Review: Glory of the King’s Hand by Chuck Strangers
Che Jessamy raps under his government name about welfare checks, gold chains, and the dead. Glory of the King’s Hand is his sturdiest work yet.
Jul 7
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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Album Review: Skiddle Bandana by La Reezy
A 21-year-old from the 12th Ward stages his debut as a party bus ride around New Orleans, with family in every seat. It is the warmest rap debut of the…
Jul 7
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Shatter the Standards
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Devon Kai Brooks
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Milestones: Oh, My God! by Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew
The debut from hip-hop’s original human beatbox plays like a Barbadian-American block party with the DJs out front. No label has issued it on CD in…
Jul 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Murffey Zavier
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A Hundred Years of Renaming Black Music
The genre a label assigns still sets the radio format, the award, and the budget, so the artists flagging “R&B” are naming a paycheck problem, not…
Jul 6
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Blackpolitan
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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“Spend Dat” Is a Mirror and the Argument Is Aimed at the Glass
Yung Miami put her own face on a hundred-dollar bill and a country that can’t make rent sang it back to her; the spread of “Spend Dat” is a reading on…
Jul 6
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Blackpolitan
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Tabia N. Mullings
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Album Review: Loving This Black Woman by Oriiginelle
An Eswatini rapper courts one Black woman in siSwati and English, then hands the mic to God, to the woman, and to her own anguish.
Jul 5
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Shatter the Standards
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Tunde Albright
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Album Review: Finesse the World 2 by RetcH
A friend killed on his birthday, a brother gone, years of cases. RetcH turns the decade since Finesse the World into his coldest, most cohesive album.
Jul 5
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Shatter the Standards
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Rafael Greene
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Kiss-Offs, Come-Ons, and a Rider Full of Rum
Jorja Smith stays up all night with Wizkid, Fana Hues torches an ex, and Manchester’s finest soul duo ends a long quiet spell. Summer R&B is here.
Jul 5
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Soulpolitan
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