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New Music Drops: July 10, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of July 10th. We know it can be…
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Album Review: Highway 79 by Ne-Yo
On his first country-inspired record, cut in Nashville twenty years after his debut, Ne-Yo writes the plainest songs of his career and lets the R&B…
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: YEARNALISM by Baby Rose
After two albums made to steady herself, Baby Rose turns the contralto outward, and the yearning finally has a direction.
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Ivy Mensah
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Album Review: new avatar by Kelela
Kelela wrote her third album while reading Octavia Butler and staring down a lover who went silent. It is the most direct songwriting of her career.
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Marjani Fields
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Album Review: S.K.A.T.E. by Rylo Rodriguez
Three years after Been One, the Mobile rapper comes back with songs about snitching, grief, and double cups. He is one of the best line writers in…
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Tariq Belson
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Milestones: Temporary Highs In the Violet Skies by Snoh Aalegra
The album where Snoh Aalegra sings about wanting everything from love but settles for singing about wanting.
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Kendra Oluwaseyi
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There’s a JAŸ-Z Bar for Everything: 30 Lines That Became Rap Grammar
Board decks, breakup texts, retirement toasts. For thirty years, people who probably never bought a Jay album have argued in his sentences.
Jul 8
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Phil
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The 30 Best Displays of JAŸ-Z’s Lyricism
Reasonable Doubt turned thirty this past June, and the name on the streaming services now carries an umlaut. Three decades in, Shawn Carter is the best…
Jul 8
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Phil
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Milestones: Blank Face LP by ScHoolboy Q
ScHoolboy Q nearly quit rap after touring Oxymoron, then locked himself in a home studio and made the album where every voice on it belongs to somebody…
Jul 8
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Zachary Penn
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Album Review: FATHERS by FATHERS
Kenny Beats, Kiefer, CARRTOONS, and Nate Smith cut their debut in 48 hours while testing a new console in Los Angeles. They came away with live…
Jul 7
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Lillian Sharpe
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Album Review: Glory of the King’s Hand by Chuck Strangers
Che Jessamy raps under his government name about welfare checks, gold chains, and the dead. Glory of the King’s Hand is his sturdiest work yet.
Jul 7
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Phil
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Album Review: Skiddle Bandana by La Reezy
A 21-year-old from the 12th Ward stages his debut as a party bus ride around New Orleans, with family in every seat. It is the warmest rap debut of the…
Jul 7
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Devon Kai Brooks
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