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Album Review: Y’all Won by Veeze
As a surprise tape of illicit leaks, Veeze keeps his voice level no matter how big the brag gets, reading absurd money talk, reciting his own bank…
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Milestones: Harvest for the World by The Isley Brothers
The group’s fourteenth album asks who loves you better and whether it even matters when the world won't feed its own.
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Imani Raven
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New Music Drops: May 29, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of May 29th. We know it can be a…
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Album Review: U, Me & My Ego by Chxrry
A Scarborough debut where the ego shows up uninvited and orders for the whole table.
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Sabine Okafemi
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Milestones: Forever My Lady by Jodeci
Four teenagers from North Carolina gospel families carried twenty-nine demos to New York, and in one afternoon rewrote the terms of what masculine R&B…
May 28
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Mina Abdel
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Milestones: Efil4zaggin by N.W.A.
The first gangsta rap LP to hit number one on the Billboard 200 was made by a four-man crew. Dre quietly built the engine of West Coast rap’s next…
May 28
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Phil
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Sonny Rollins Played Himself Free
Sonny Rollins was no revolutionary, yet he played himself free of every jazz convention. Now the last giant of the bebop era has died at the age of 95.
May 27
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Chinedu Faulkner
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Wednesday Roundups #151: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Thee Marloes, aja monet, JuJu Rogers, Chuck D & John Densmore, Patrick Paige II, Anaïs Cardot, Jon Onabowu, REMI, SIPHO…
May 27
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Album Review: Confessions of a People Pleaser by CJ Monét
Her debut hands the first words on the record to her late grandmother. Everything that follows is written under that supervision.
May 26
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Janelle K. Moore
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Album Review: Circa 01’ by Kastaway & Backpack Beatz
Kastaway and Backpack Beatz were eleven and thirteen when The Blueprint dropped. Circa 01’ remembers that year from the inside instead of curating it.
May 26
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: The Premise by Ill Conscious & Finn
A Baltimore rapper writes a sermon disguised as a rap album.
May 26
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Mantequilla by Recognize Ali & Giallo Point
Eleven boom-bap tracks of executioner bars from an Accra MC who Praises Allah and stages salaam-position sex boasts in the same eight bars.
May 26
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Blaise Freeman
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