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Five 2010 R&B Albums Built on Loyalty, Not Reinvention
2010 R&B had stars, lifers, and quiet assassins sharing the same calendar. These five albums prove how many ways a voice can hold power without chasing…
5 hrs ago
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Phil
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Imani Raven
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Tai Lawson
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Seraphina Joy Clarke
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Keziah Amara Reid
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Shatter the Standards
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The 80 Best Rap Albums of 2025
A list for people who listen first and argue later. No declarations, no coping, no “rap is back” sermons. Forget the headlines and the mood-board takes…
17 hrs ago
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Shatter the Standards
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Album Review: What Happened to the Streets? by 21 Savage
21 Savage's fourth solo album interrogates the collapse of street code through fourteen tracks of paranoid accounting and emotional shutdown.
Dec 12
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Murffey Zavier
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Shatter the Standards
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Album Review: Light-Years by Nas & DJ Premier
Nineteen years after the Scratch magazine cover, the architect and the boom-bap god finally deliver fifteen tracks of Queens concrete and sample-flip…
Dec 12
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Phil
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Shatter the Standards
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New Music Drops: December 12, 2025
Here’s your upcoming rundown of albums/singles releasing on December 12th, featuring Nas & DJ Premier, Conway the Machine, Nija, Tiara Thomas, and many…
Dec 12
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Shatter the Standards
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Album Review: You Can’t Kill God with Bullets by Conway the Machine
The Buffalo rapper navigates survival, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning across eighteen tracks that map the distance between five Grammy nominations…
Dec 11
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Okoye
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Shatter the Standards
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Five 2000 R&B Albums That Made “Second Tier” Feel Essential
Male vocal groups, a new solo voice, a legacy act, and two soundtracks argue about what R&B is supposed to feel like. Chicago, Atlanta, and old-guard…
Dec 10
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Murffey Zavier
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Jill Wannasa
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Asa McKenzie
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Kendra Vale
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Wednesday Roundups #131: 25 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time
With redveil, Infinite Coles, Skyzoo, Adi Oasis, Erick Sermon, Le$, Mark Lux, Hydra, Kymara, Ben Marc, Aklesso, JAHKOY, Josef Lamercier, and others, hit…
Dec 10
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Shatter the Standards
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Five 2000 Rap Albums You Hear Differently When the Smoke Clears
These are the records where West Coast pride, Southern hustle, and New York ambition all collide without a referee. The mess is the point, and the mess…
Dec 10
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Javon Bailey
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Randy
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Asa McKenzie
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Shatter the Standards
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Album Review: Dynamic Duos, Vol. 1 by Erick Sermon
The EPMD architect returns with a curatorial project that celebrates hip-hop chemistry across three decades, centering partnerships that built the…
Dec 9
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Koda Lin
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Shatter the Standards
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The Additional 30 Best R&B Albums of 2025 (Honorable Mentions)
These R&B records strip away the excess to reveal raw emotion and deft musicianship. From neo-soul meditators to funk-infused groove masters, they prove…
Dec 9
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Shatter the Standards
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How Nas and DJ Premier Got the Last Say
Mass Appeal spent 2025 reminding the world why New York rap still matters. Ending the series with Light‑Years is their way of saying: the people who…
Dec 8
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Blackpolitan
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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