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Album Review: POWER HOUSE by Magi Merlin
Five years of EPs behind her, the Montreal singer-producer scales her self-coined broken R&B up to a debut full-length of taunts, gratitude used as a…
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Osei Addae
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Milestones: Savage Mode by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
21 Savage’s first hit, paired with the most committed strip-down of Metro Boomin’s career. Atlanta trap as the after-part of feeling.
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Randy
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Album Review: My Reckless Abandon by Bella Kay
On her debut album, the 20-year-old behind 2025’s viral “The Sick” writes about crushes, sex, food, and family with a candor most songwriters never…
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Sabine Okafemi
Wednesday Roundups #157: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from La Reezy, Juicy J & Project Pat, Sango, FATHERS, Allison Russell, Chuck Strangers, Raz Fresco, Jaz Karis, Zae France, Lute…
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Album Review: People Are Not Your Friends by Another Planet & steel tipped dove
Rapping over dove’s loops with their childhood friendship as the only alliance left standing, Phiik and Lungs turn distrust into the densest, funniest…
Jul 14
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: Dem Goats by Juicy J & Project Pat
After thirty years of trading verses on each other’s tapes, Juicy J and Project Pat finally make a full album together, a blunt-drum instruction manual…
Jul 14
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Fallon Reese
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Album Review: TRY AS I MIGHT by SWAMP THUG
After a decade of nonstop Bandcamp releases, SWAMP THUG raps about the living he can’t make over Camoflauge Monk’s loops and GAWD’s sub-bass, and comes…
Jul 14
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Greg J.
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The Handguide to Clavinet Funk
After “Superstition” went big, every keyboardist in Black music wanted that bite, and sixty songs follow the D6 from gospel quartets to Graterford…
Jul 14
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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My Presence Is a Present and My Gift Is Rapping
Three nights at Yankee Stadium sold out, the third added for the overflow, and Saturday’s 45,832 broke an attendance record set 24 hours earlier by…
Jul 13
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Alexandria Elise
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Milestones: Sorry 4 the Wait by Lil Wayne
Out of Rikers and stuck inside Tha Carter IV delay, the rapper wrapped his return in twelve freestyles over summer hits.
Jul 13
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Javon Bailey
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They Called Her Job Waste
DOGE closed itself down on July 4 after shrinking the federal workforce by more than 272,000 jobs. Black women were 12 percent of that workforce and a…
Jul 13
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Seraphina Joy Clarke
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Milestones: Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
George Clinton built a psychedelic funk band so volatile it couldn’t survive its own best work.
Jul 12
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Imani Raven
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