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Album Review: Oda by Daniela Andrade
After fourteen years singing other people’s songs, Daniela Andrade finally recorded the conversation she’d been having with her mother all along. Oda is…
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F. Qureshi
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EP Review: Miami Lice: Season Four by Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman
Eight years off the clock and the two oddest pens in indie rap still won’t explain themselves to anybody.
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Sabine Okafemi
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Album Review: A Rush to Nowhere by Arima Ederra
On her second album, Arima Ederra turns the clock into a conversation partner and keeps asking it questions it cannot answer. It holds still long enough…
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Maya LeRoux
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Album Review: After All by GiddyGang & Vuyo
An Oslo hip-hop band and a South African-Norwegian rapper pool grief, guilt, and busted relationships into a record that knows what it cost them.
Mar 9
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Nyasha
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Album Review: Talk to Her Like This by Alvin Garrett
A Tuscaloosa preacher’s son turns his father’s pillow talk into a ten-song manual for grown men. Alvin Garrett built a concept record about talking to…
Mar 9
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Jen Mauvais
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Musicians at the Heart of the Movement
From Jim Crow highways to bombed churches, musicians endured America’s cruelty. Nina Simone turned that rage into a battle cry in an hour of writing. It…
Mar 9
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Blackpolitan
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Imani Raven
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Lupe Fiasco Talks Lasers, Obama, and Protest (2011 Interview)
About three and a half years after The Cool, Lupe Fiasco is finally back in motion. Real talk from one of the foremost hip-hop commentators of his era…
Mar 8
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bmr
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Anniversaries: Lasers by Lupe Fiasco
Atlantic held a rapper hostage, and the ransom note became a platinum record. Lupe Fiasco smuggled protest songs inside a pop album his label demanded.
Mar 8
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Nia Lattimore
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Album Review: early life crisis by Nettspend
An 18-year-old from Richmond pours lean, Percs, and ketamine into his debut. The beats are better than he is, but the kid keeps slipping.
Mar 8
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Alexandria Elise
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Omarion, Ayra Starr, and Five R&B Singles Worth Your Weekend
New R&B from Ayra Starr, Omarion, Ama with Brent Faiyaz, Nia Smith tag-teams Destin Conrad, and Jalen Ngonda.
Mar 8
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Soulpolitan
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Album Review: Trippin from the West by Shloob
A Louisville West End rapper pays out of pocket for his own music and says exactly where he’s at. No cosign saves him, but he makes the case that the…
Mar 7
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Chinedu Faulkner
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Album Review: I Was Told There’d Be Gold by Rashad
After eleven years away from solo records, the Columbus singer-rapper-producer returns with a third album about faith, staying, and the gold that never…
Mar 7
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Sameira
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