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My Presence Is a Present and My Gift Is Rapping
Three nights at Yankee Stadium sold out, the third added for the overflow, and Saturday’s 45,832 broke an attendance record set 24 hours earlier by…
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Blackpolitan
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Alexandria Elise
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Milestones: Sorry 4 the Wait by Lil Wayne
Out of Rikers and stuck inside Tha Carter IV delay, the rapper wrapped his return in twelve freestyles over summer hits.
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Shatter the Standards
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Javon Bailey
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They Called Her Job Waste
DOGE closed itself down on July 4 after shrinking the federal workforce by more than 272,000 jobs. Black women were 12 percent of that workforce and a…
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Blackpolitan
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Seraphina Joy Clarke
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Milestones: Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
George Clinton built a psychedelic funk band so volatile it couldn’t survive its own best work.
Jul 12
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Shatter the Standards
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Imani Raven
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The Loverman Asks Permission Now
Tank flips a Floetry classic into a question only you can answer. Plus: Coco Jones’s two-minute glow-up, Masego’s basement-party invitation, and a…
Jul 12
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Soulpolitan
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30 JAŸ-Z Storytelling Records Ranked by Craft
In honor of JAŸ-Z 30, a countdown of the narrative songs that are built the best. Structure, pacing, dialogue, tension, perspective, characterization…
Jul 11
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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Album Review: WHY EQUALS SELF by Raz Fresco
The Toronto rapper-producer turns Five-Percent lessons and a family split by borders into the deepest album of his career.
Jul 11
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Shatter the Standards
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Aicha Odilia
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Album Review: Alchemy by Davion Farris
The eldest of Inglewood’s Farris brothers devoted years to writing songs for other singers to take home. On thirteen songs of grown two-voice R&B, he…
Jul 11
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Shatter the Standards
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Noura Haddad
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Album Review: Underdogs Win Eventually by Bizzy Crook
Bizzy Crook gave a decade to other people’s hits while his own family went quiet. In Underdogs Win Eventually, he writes the silence better than the…
Jul 11
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Shatter the Standards
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LeMarcus
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Album Review: The Ends, Never Ends by Joe James
Thirteen homes before secondary school, homeless at sixteen, years of silence with his mum. The Essex rapper’s debut turns all of it into the most…
Jul 10
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Shatter the Standards
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: The Real Me by Future
Four years after his last solo album, Future promises to be the man behind the Pluto alias. He keeps the promise on a handful of songs that hold his…
Jul 10
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Shatter the Standards
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Phil
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Album Review: NEVER SAY DIE by PFG
J. Cole went home to Fayetteville to produce PFG’s NEVER SAY DIE, and the Sheltuh rapper fills his minimal, bass-heavy beats with the hardest, most…
Jul 10
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Shatter the Standards
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Harry Brown
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