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Album Review: Mantequilla by Recognize Ali & Giallo Point
Eleven boom-bap tracks of executioner bars from an Accra MC who Praises Allah and stages salaam-position sex boasts in the same eight bars.
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Blaise Freeman
Album Review: no country for old men by doPE (Chuck D & John Densmore)
An emcee at 65 and a drummer at 81 turn an Org Music gatefold into a record that argues with the easy idea of an elder statesman.
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Quinn Baptiste
Album Review: Briana by Bri Babineaux
On her third album, Bri Babineaux writes God in the second-person grammar of an R&B love song, and questions whether the form can carry an artist who…
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Jamila W.
Rob Base Only Needed the Beat and a Microphone
The beat of his song “It Takes Two” was to hip-hop what the guitar solo from “Stairway to Heaven” was to rock. Rapper Rob Base has now died at the age…
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Terryl Jameson
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The Puppetmaster of Rosbach
Boney M.’s gigantic success in the 1970s is actually a dark chapter in pop music history. At its center: producer Frank Farian. An ARD documentary tells…
May 25
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Stay in the Room as Long as You Can
New songs from kwn, Glenn Lewis, Tiffany Evans, Blxst, and Daley—none of them willing to play it safe. Slow jams, self-worth anthems, and reunion…
May 24
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Soulpolitan
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The Handguide to ‘90s Hip-Hop/R&B Soundtracks
Hollywood paid the bill for rap and R&B’s best A&R work all decade. Year by year, these are the comps that came out of the deal.
May 23
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Album Review: EXPERIMENTAL RAP by JPEGMAFIA
JPEGMAFIA spent half a decade letting his provocation outrun his writing. On EXPERIMENTAL RAP, they arrive at the same time, and leave nowhere safe to…
May 22
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Nehemiah
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Album Review: Love You, Mean It by Patrick Paige II
A relationship album that mistakes the recording booth for a confession booth. It survives the mistake as every lyric tells on the man in the booth.
May 22
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Danica Ford
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Album Review: the color of rain by aja monet
Octavia Butler’s headstone sits three miles from the Eaton fire, and on this record, she is newscasting from inside the dirt.
May 22
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Renée Holloway
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New Music Drops: May 22, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of May 22nd. We know it can be a…
May 21
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Album Review: Love Is the New Gangsta by 6LACK
On his fourth album, the Atlanta singer-rapper turns the title’s gangsta into the labor of holding grief and not weaponizing it.
May 21
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Tunde Albright
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