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How Deregulation from the Telecommunications Act Stripped Black Music of Power
Thirty years ago, ownership caps vanished. Black stations vanished with them, replaced by playlists built for shareholders, not communities.
4 hrs ago
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Blackpolitan
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Reginald Marcel
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Bad Bunny Makes the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show About Identity More Than Hits
Traditional Puerto Rican imagery and community signifiers appeared front and center. Bad Bunny's performance was widely seen as a historic moment for…
12 hrs ago
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Shatter the Standards
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Joelle Figueroa
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What the Water Remembered: Beyoncé and Black Matter
Before Lemonade broke the dam, Beyoncé released one video that already held the flood. “Formation” at ten.
12 hrs ago
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Blackpolitan
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Jill Wannasa
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R&B for People Who Stare Out of Windows
Five songs about leaving, staying, and lying about which one you're doing. Headphones and emotional honesty recommended, starring Mack Keane, Sasha…
Feb 8
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Soulpolitan
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Deciphering Symba’s “Father Figure”
Rap spent 2024 begging grown men to go to war. Symba watched that from the West Coast and said out loud what half the culture whispered. Cole came back…
Feb 7
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Words Past da Margin
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Rafael Greene
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Milestones: Donuts by J Dilla
Dilla built this from a hospital bed with a sampler and whatever 45s friends could smuggle in. Thirty-one beats, most under two minutes, none wasted.
Feb 7
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Shatter the Standards
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Greg J.
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Singers Painting R&B in the Colors of Heart-Flutters
After “So Sick” conquered the charts, a wave of melodic R&B singers found their audience in Tokyo. These Ne-Yo disciples built careers on falsetto and…
Feb 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Album Review: The Fall-Off by J. Cole
The supposed farewell from rap’s most self-interrogating moderate. Cole bets his legacy on a double-disc album split between hunger and wisdom.
Feb 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Kamaria Jules
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New Music Drops: February 6, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of February 6th. We know it can…
Feb 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Inside the Long Eight-Year Wait for J. Cole’s The Fall-Off
KOD diagnosed an addiction problem. The Fall-Off took nearly eight years to fill the prescription. Cole titled his album after his own decline, and…
Feb 5
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Shatter the Standards
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: Do You Still Love Me? by Ella Mai
On her first album release since 2022, Ella Mai turns devotion into a contract and jealousy into a policy manual. The question mark in the title is…
Feb 5
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Shatter the Standards
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Tori Hammond
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EP Spotlight: Homegrown by VanJess
On Homegrown, VanJess address situationships, dysfunction, and desire without melodrama. The EP sounds like the work of artists who no longer need to…
Feb 5
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Shatter the Standards
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Tai Lawson
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