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Album Review: Days of You. by chromonicci
A beatmaker’s second vocal album runs on groove and desire, convincing enough when the details show up.
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Amaya🎀
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New R&B from Elmiene, Jenevieve, Noah Guy, rum.gold, and Isaia Huron
Five new R&B tracks about staying too long, giving too much, and refusing to leave. Debut albums and a breakup concept record led the week.
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Album Review: Skeletor by Chief Keef
A man who built Drill’s blueprint at 16 is 30 now. Chief Keef made his most autobiographically detailed album. It’s the best thing he’s done in a mighty…
Mar 28
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Nia Lattimore
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Milestones: Return of 4eva by Big K.R.I.T.
The Mississippi rapper and producer’s magnum opus of a mixtape is Southern rap’s warmest, most self-assured free album of 2011.
Mar 28
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Noura Haddad
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Album Review: EXTRA CHEESE by NAHreally
The Massachusetts MC’s tenth release wrings a whole album from the pleasures and anxieties of being pretty good. Nobody rapping this candidly about…
Mar 28
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Mina Abdel
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Milestones: Fishscale by Ghostface Killah
The Wu-Tang veteran’s fifth solo album trades kingpin fantasy for basement stress, a late-career monument to urgency and unresolved damage.
Mar 28
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Fallon Reese
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Milestones: King by T.I.
Between a film role and a presumptuous title, T.I. calls himself royalty, raps the same block biography three albums running, and dares anyone to argue.
Mar 28
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L. Ari James
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Album Review: Whatever’s Clever! by Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth makes his most personal album with BloodPop®, and a guest list spanning three decades. The directness holds.
Mar 27
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Rosa Delgado
Album Review: Zavier by Fetty Wap
Fetty Wap’s first album after federal prison leans hard into romance and old loyalties. It’s slight and comfortable when it should be reckoning with the…
Mar 27
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Tai Lawson
Album Review: MEMORIA, in blue by Noah Guy
The Philly singer’s debut is a warm, unpolished grief record made almost entirely with his roommate. It sounds exactly as close as that implies.
Mar 27
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Danica Ford
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Album Review: Confessions of a Lonely Girl by Victory
Victory Boyd gave away her best songs and won a Grammy nobody expected. Her third record asks who profits from love and whether God’s answer is the…
Mar 27
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Tori Hammond
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Album Review: Is There Anybody Home? by rum.gold
A divorce record from someone who never felt at home anywhere. Every room on it is empty, and he keeps walking through them anyway.
Mar 27
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Jhanel
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