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Album Review: Divided Times by Qwel & Nightwalker
On Divided Times, teaming up with Nightwalker, Qwel raps about what’s killing people, from capitalism to his city’s blocks to the self.
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Water to Wine by Cashus King & Big O
Cashus King and Big O build fourteen tracks on the miracle at Cana. Addiction, grief, and Black history become his most exact writing yet.
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: Outside the Lines by Shabaam Sahdeeq & Es-K
Thirty years past the open mics, the Brooklyn vet raps his parasite detox, the quiet life, and the boombox his mother bought.
Jun 22
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: No Era for Margins by Rasheed Chappell
Active since 2009, Rasheed Chappell takes his time centering Christian, Five-percenter, and Islamic imagery, while Reckonize Real gives him low-lit…
Jun 22
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Phil
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Album Review: Hate the Sin Not the Sinner by Jules Clay
Jules Clay found God on the way up and still wakes up reaching for his gun, and across Hate the Sin Not the Sinner, he won’t pick one over the other.
Jun 22
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Termaine M. Scott
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From the Pulpit to the Block
Artists have drawn the cultures of hip-hop and jazz closer together, the art of freestyle and that of free improvisation. A look back at a history in…
Jun 22
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Daliah Green
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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…
Jun 21
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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.
Jun 21
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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.
Jun 21
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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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