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30 JAŸ-Z Storytelling Records Ranked by Craft
In honor of JAŸ-Z 30, a countdown of the narrative songs that are built the best. Structure, pacing, dialogue, tension, perspective, characterization…
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Album Review: WHY EQUALS SELF by Raz Fresco
The Toronto rapper-producer turns Five-Percent lessons and a family split by borders into the deepest album of his career.
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Album Review: Alchemy by Davion Farris
The eldest of Inglewood’s Farris brothers devoted years to writing songs for other singers to take home. On thirteen songs of grown two-voice R&B, he…
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Album Review: Underdogs Win Eventually by Bizzy Crook
Bizzy Crook gave a decade to other people’s hits while his own family went quiet. In Underdogs Win Eventually, he writes the silence better than the…
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Album Review: The Ends, Never Ends by Joe James
Thirteen homes before secondary school, homeless at sixteen, years of silence with his mum. The Essex rapper’s debut turns all of it into the most…
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: The Real Me by Future
Four years after his last solo album, Future promises to be the man behind the Pluto alias. He keeps the promise on a handful of songs that hold his…
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Phil
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Album Review: NEVER SAY DIE by PFG
J. Cole went home to Fayetteville to produce PFG’s NEVER SAY DIE, and the Sheltuh rapper fills his minimal, bass-heavy beats with the hardest, most…
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Love/Hate II by The-Dream
Nineteen years after Love/Hate turned bedroom synth-R&B into a serial, the Radio Killa returns with Usher, Pusha T, and Rick Ross and picks the dirty…
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Album Review: RHYTHM & MELODY by Sango
On his debut for Mass Appeal, the Seattle producer runs Detroit rap, New Orleans bounce, Chicago footwork, and Rio funk through one set of top-tier…
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F. Qureshi
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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.
Jul 9
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Ivy Mensah
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