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December 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month
With releases from Nas & DJ Premier to redveil, here are notable releases in November that stood out to us as the best albums of the month.
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Anniversaries: Song of Sage: Post Panic! by Navy Blue
As Navy Blue once intoned, he lives this life for his ancestors—and through Song of Sage: Post Panic!, he’s created music that honors them and all of us…
Dec 23
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Harry Brown
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The Quiet Double Standard Around Artistic Integrity
The double standard that makes Ravyn Lenae, Alemeda, and their peers explain themselves for chasing the same reach everyone else celebrates.
Dec 22
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Five 2010 R&B Albums Where Desire Runs the Script
2010 R&B wasn’t shy about appetite, but it still needed craft to make it land. These five albums show singers using the same old tools in sharper…
Dec 21
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Tai Lawson
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Keziah Amara Reid
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Five 2010 Rap Albums, Veteran Moves Only
2010 didn’t need a “new sound” to move units or shift the conversation. It needed veterans willing to sharpen their edges and take swings with the same…
Dec 21
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Nehemiah
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Harry Brown
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Milestones: The Breakthrough by Mary J. Blige
The Breakthrough is the triumphant crescendo that still leaves room for what comes after—affirming Mary J. Blige is a lifelong work-in-progress. And…
Dec 20
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Tai Lawson
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The Lineage of Voodoo (The Forgotten Gems)
We introduce 10 albums that seem to sit under the influence of Voodoo. Although it could take us forever to list the rest, it goes from 2017 and beyond…
Dec 19
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Anniversaries: Unpredictable by Jamie Foxx
With Unpredictable, Jamie Foxx got them in full. The comedian-turned-crooner delivered an album that may not have shocked the world, but it certainly…
Dec 19
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New Music Drops: December 19, 2025
Here’s your upcoming rundown of albums/singles releasing on December 19th, featuring CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, Niontay, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Darla Dean…
Dec 19
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Who Is Your Rap’s MVP of 2025?
The crown doesn't go to the most popular or the most prolific. It goes to the one who owned the year, the one whose work will still be defining 2025…
Dec 18
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Anniversaries: Brass by Moor Mother & billy woods
Brass leaves us haunted but not hopeless, awakened to the past and alive to the future, standing at the party’s door with one fist clenched and the…
Dec 18
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Wednesday Roundups #132: 16 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time
With threetwenty, Chris Patrick, SALIMATA, Theravada, Sondae, Tanerélle, J. Arrr, Ye Ali, Bun B/Statik Selektah, Adrian Daniel, Deetranada, and others…
Dec 17
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