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Album Review: Tension by Fridayy
Three albums into a Def Jam run, he opened by out-singing the hook on DJ Khaled’s “God Did.” Fridayy swaps gospel scale for dancefloor scale and turns a…
Aug 15
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: It Made Sense at the Time by B-Movie Millionaires
Reunited as B-Movie Millionaires, Lee Scott and Black Josh turn drink, drugs, and their own heads into one of the year’s funniest, best-written rap…
Aug 15
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: Love Me for Me by October London
October London sang in the Grammys’ Roberta Flack tribute, and on Love Me for Me, he writes a bar tab and a busy schedule better than he writes the…
Aug 15
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Nia Lattimore
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Album Review: DOOMED! by Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal
Eagle’s relationship ended just as he and Segal set out to build their first album together, and he turned the collapse into DOOMED! that stays funny…
Aug 14
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Wesley Durham
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Album Review: The Womack Sisters by The Womack Sisters
Ten years after a mutual friend introduced them to Daptone, the Los Angeles trio filled their self-titled debut with fares owed, ruined weeks, and men…
Aug 14
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Renée Holloway
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Album Review: PROLIFIC by Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux
Recorded in 2017 and now posthumously released, PROLIFIC catches Nipsey Hussle and Bino Rideaux trading ambition, money, and grief like two men…
Aug 14
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Phil
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Album Review: fata morgana by L’Rain
Three years after the anti-break-up record I Killed Your Dog, Taja Cheek turns stalled starts, hungry love, and family communion into one continuous…
Aug 13
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Alexandria Elise
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Album Review: Lost Weekend by Phoebe Bridgers
From a nosebleed at the Governor’s Ball to a father’s voicemail, Lost Weekend follows one love behind Phoebe Bridgers long-awaited follow-up and is the…
Aug 13
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Ivy Mensah
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Album Review: StarrGirl by Ayra Starr
The Nigerian pop star packs her third album with money talk and dancefloor commands, then lets the English ballads go slack.
Aug 13
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: rappers suck. by Cletus Strap
In verses written partly in a rented beach house in Oxnard, the Los Angeles rapper turns a survey of broke friends into first-rate comic writing.
Aug 11
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Zachary Penn
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Album Review: A DREAM FOR A DOLLAR by Clark D
Produced almost entirely by the rapper himself, Clark D’s new album is argumentative and self-incriminating, a Mattapan record that gives its best…
Aug 11
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Okoye
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Album Review: SOULWAVE 2153 by MOONGA K.
Zambian-born and Johannesburg-based, MOONGA K. tells whoever is listening to stand up and keep their head up, and on SOULWAVE 2153, he writes the…
Aug 11
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Terryl Jameson
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