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Album Review: Becoming by Mare
Mare makes a smoothie, walks the dogs, and forgets to text back. She turns that small avoidance into the sturdiest writing on a debut, sure of who it’s…
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Osei Addae
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Album Review: Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife by Swamp Dogg
Swamp Dogg’s first album for S-Curve, made at 83, swings from comic kiss-offs to a toddler’s grief. He plays both straight and sells every bit.
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Esther Blake
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Masego Needs a Minute and Kelela Needs Nine Years
Masego grieves on a studio deadline, Dawn Richard goes giddy with Durand Bernarr, and Kelela frees a song she’d kept in a drawer since 2016.
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Album Review: Hustlin Ain’t a Sin by Sha Hef
Home from a five-year sentence, Sha Hef bargains with God across Hustlin Ain’t a Sin over whether the dope game damns him, and makes the best album of…
Jun 20
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Okoye
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Album Review: The Insanity Project by Dice Raw
On his latest full-length LP, Dice Raw writes about grief, faith across religions, and gun violence piled into the same dense verses.
Jun 20
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Janelle K. Moore
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Album Review: Trapper’s Alley 3: Hell or High Water by Boldy James & Nicholas Craven
A murdered brother and ten killers loose before summer open the record, and the punchlines never outrun the grief. It’s the heaviest Boldy James and…
Jun 20
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Phil
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Album Review: Critical Thot by sha ray & DJ Haram
sha ray arrives on her debut with the belladonna persona already finished, and proves sex rap can do its hardest thinking mid-strut.
Jun 20
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Koda Lin
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Mixtape Review: Make You Feel by Dylan Sinclair
On a tape about filming sex and keeping a woman home, Dylan Sinclair writes love as ownership. The craft is good enough to make most of it sound like…
Jun 20
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Jill Wannasa
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How Tay Keith Made the Mainstream Sound Like Memphis
Tay Keith made national No. 1s out of a piano figure, a slab of 808s, and a lot of empty room, and left the rapper on top to finish a song he'd built…
Jun 19
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Album Review: PROJECT X by Key Glock
Twenty tracks of money, codeine, and motion in the same dry deadpan, and Key Glock is good enough at it that even the cuts riding one word go down easy.
Jun 19
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LeMarcus
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Album Review: THE GENTLEMEN’S CLUB by YG
Hiring a hitman to kill a man who turns out to be himself, YG turns the hardest register of West Coast rap inward and writes some of the best songs of…
Jun 19
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Phil
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Album Review: AMA by Ama
Across her self-titled second album, Ama is almost always the one ending it. The breakups are the funniest, meanest writing she has put down.
Jun 19
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Monica LaSalle
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