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Album Review: Precious Cargo by Maiya the Don
On her first full-length since Hot Commodity, Maiya the Don guards her body, her bag, and her worth like contraband, stacking luxury punchlines that are…
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Tabia N. Mullings
Mixtape Review: Diary of a Young Lit B*tch by PLUTO
On another tape for Motown, PLUTO writes from the spender’s seat in Atlanta strip-club rap and sorts the men by what they’ll pay.
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Cierra Marcel
Album Review: Offering by Ibeyi
By handing it to a crew of producers with songs of Yoruba invocation and four-language heartbreak, the sisters’ blended voices are the through-line that…
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Rosa Delgado
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Album Review: Kill the King by T.I.
On the album he’s calling his last, T.I. turns out to be a better elegist than a king. It’s the most alive he has sounded in years.
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Phil
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Album Review: TERRA COTTA by Joseph Solomon
A song cycle built on rebooked flights and half-apologies follows one couple from takeoff to the end of the world. Joseph Solomon turns the distance…
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Chinedu Faulkner
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Album Review: O.Y.N by Maxo Kream
Handing every track to JPEGMAFIA, Maxo Kream writes from an older man’s vantage, and his bravado and his grief finally pull in the same direction.
Jun 26
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Murffey Zavier
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Album Review: No Sleep In Paradise by Naomi Sharon
Sharon’s second album follows one relationship from the first pull to the door she takes. Her writing about power and the unsaid turns a familiar…
Jun 26
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Ameenah Laquita
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Milestones: Songs In A Minor by Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys left Columbia at sixteen and bet her career on a piano. Nothing else in 2001 R&B sounded like it.
Jun 26
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Tori Hammond
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New Music Drops: June 26, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of June 26th. We know it can be…
Jun 25
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EP Review: and all pride aside by kwn
kwn opens this EP claiming she could put any woman on all fours and ends it praying over someone she’s losing.
Jun 25
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Marjani Fields
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Milestones: Peace Beyond Passion by Meshell Ndegeocello
The album that named homophobia with a slur and Christianity with a question mark was too honest for a music industry that preferred its Black women…
Jun 25
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Darryl Keyes
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Milestones: Keith Sweat by Keith Sweat
Four million copies of unchanged Keith Sweat, arriving when everyone counted him out. The begging worked better than the reinvention.
Jun 25
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Jamila W.
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