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Mixtape Review: Birthday Blizzard ‘26 by J. Cole
This is the Cole you want more of.
Jan 30
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Asa McKenzie
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Album Review: OCTANE by Don Toliver
On OCTANE, tenderness arrives with terms and conditions, every declaration of love shadowed by a hand reaching for something else.
Jan 30
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Murffey Zavier
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Album Review: As of Now by Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon
The Charlotte rapper’s latest mixes signing-day swagger with relationship paranoia, but the bravado keeps cracking under the weight of surveillance…
Jan 29
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Okoye
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Album Review: My Ghosts Go Ghost by By Storm
By Storm’s debut is a raw account of grief, fatherhood, and financial precarity. The writing stays honest about its greed in ways most rap refuses.
Jan 29
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Tariq Belson
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Album Review: Backward by Jordan Ward
The Atlanta singer airs out his dislocation and doubt across Backward. He wants land in Georgia, a son he hasn’t had yet, and to break whatever cycle…
Jan 29
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Hana Beltrán
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Album Review: SANTO by New Saint
On the latest record, New Saint swings between triumph anthems and crisis confessions. The honest moments hit, while the formula blurs together.
Jan 29
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LeMarcus
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Album Review: Part 3 by 42 Dugg
Detroit street rap’s most paranoid chronicler returns with another status report from inside the siege.
Jan 25
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Javon Bailey
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Album Review: Greyhound by Katie Tupper
Finally dropping her debut, Tupper wrote a record about staying too long and leaving too early, often in the same relationship. The honesty is…
Jan 24
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: It Could Be Worse by Samm Henshaw
On It Could Be Worse, Samm Henshaw keeps asking love to stay while also begging it not to hurt him. The contradiction is the most honest thing here.
Jan 24
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Kendra Vale
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Album Review: Ratchet & Blues by Phabo
The LA singer’s studio debut makes jealousy sound like devotion and generosity look like a loan. When he says “love,” listen closer.
Jan 23
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Renée Holloway
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Album Review: 656 by Roc Marciano
The Hempstead pimp laureate returns with another self-produced luxury manual. Another set of immaculate contempt, and the pen stays sharper than ever…
Jan 23
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: What I Didn’t Say by Nija
The behind-the-scenes hitmaker’s sophomore effort documents modern love as mutual surveillance, trading vulnerability for the upper hand.
Jan 23
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Jamila W.
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5
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