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Album Review: It Gets Greater Later by Courtney Bell
A Detroit rapper keeps a gun next to scripture and cocaine residue next to a prayer, and never once pretends the two cancel out. The faith is real; so…
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Album Review: Brief Laughs by Wakai & Luke MacKenzie
At a funeral repast, somebody cracks a joke, the room laughs for two seconds, then the grief slides back in. That window is the only relief these twelve…
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Greg J.
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Album Review: 8 Shots by 38 Spesh
Coke advice turns into a story about his wife driving hours to a prison visit, and the boast and the bill never leave one bar. Method Man, Busta, and a…
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Phil
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Album Review: Now More Than Ever by Brian Jackson
Fifty-year-old protest songs handed to singers who weren’t born when they were written, set to Masters at Work’s well-composed grooves.
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Yara Blake
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Album Review: Made In Philly by Young Chris & MadeinTYO
Twenty years past Young Gunz, Chris raps a walked-out therapy session and a grandmother’s prayer onto the same record as the yachts.
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DeShawn Ellis
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Album Review: Big Mama by Latto
Her filthiest, hardest writing rides in the same car as the baby seat, and the pregnancy flexes right alongside the Maybachs and Magic City money.
May 29
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Tabia N. Mullings
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Album Review: Y’all Won by Veeze
As a surprise tape of illicit leaks, Veeze keeps his voice level no matter how big the brag gets, reading absurd money talk, reciting his own bank…
May 29
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Wesley Durham
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Milestones: Harvest for the World by The Isley Brothers
The group’s fourteenth album asks who loves you better and whether it even matters when the world won't feed its own.
May 29
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Imani Raven
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New Music Drops: May 29, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of May 29th. We know it can be a…
May 28
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Album Review: U, Me & My Ego by Chxrry
A Scarborough debut where the ego shows up uninvited and orders for the whole table.
May 28
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Sabine Okafemi
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Milestones: Forever My Lady by Jodeci
Four teenagers from North Carolina gospel families carried twenty-nine demos to New York, and in one afternoon rewrote the terms of what masculine R&B…
May 28
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Mina Abdel
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Milestones: Efil4zaggin by N.W.A.
The first gangsta rap LP to hit number one on the Billboard 200 was made by a four-man crew. Dre quietly built the engine of West Coast rap’s next…
May 28
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Phil
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