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Album Review: Holly Grove by Jadasea
Jadasea mixes his voice so far under the bass that half of Holly Grove barely surfaces. The deeper he buries it, the better the record gets.
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: ML2 by YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Across 20 tracks of one heavy trap mode and a sequel to his last year’s compilation, YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s love songs and his street songs keep…
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DeShawn Ellis
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Album Review: Good Time Boy by Prof
Prof has built eight albums on being the most unhinged man in any room. On this one, he keeps clowning straight through the addiction and the inherited…
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Oliver I. Martin
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Nobody’s Rushing to Say I Love You
Daye stretches a come-on, Muni can’t get the words out, and Dixon would rather lose than cry. Plus, Harnett learns love like a second language, and…
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Album Review: 97 Bad Boy by Rico Love
The man who wrote Usher’s “Throwback” and Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams” steps out for an album that wants one woman. The rap detail he folds into the…
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: 2 LIVE! by K, Le Maestro
Five years after Whip Music, the London producer turns a seventeen-track guest list into one record, and his bass-heavy drums are the reason it holds…
22 hrs ago
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Time Will Tell by Devon Gilfillian
Cut live to tape in single takes, Gilfillian’s soul album bets on the voice over polish. From rock spiral to country-soul thank-you, he means every…
Jun 27
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Kendra Vale
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Mixtape Review: Naturally by Nectar Woode
Nectar Woode spends these soul songs on Naturally talking herself down from her own head, with Elton John guesting on piano for the one about lost…
Jun 27
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Maya LeRoux
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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…
Jun 27
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Tabia N. Mullings
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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.
Jun 27
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Cierra Marcel
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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…
Jun 26
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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.
Jun 26
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Phil
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