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Album Review: BOY by Sondae
A Brighton-based British artist examines what it means to grow up without lying about the cost, channeling R&B, worship, and patois into songs that…
Dec 14
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Ameenah Laquita
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Album Review: What Happened to the Streets? by 21 Savage
21 Savage's fourth solo album interrogates the collapse of street code through fourteen tracks of paranoid accounting and emotional shutdown.
Dec 12
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Murffey Zavier
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Album Review: Light-Years by Nas & DJ Premier
Nineteen years after the Scratch magazine cover, the architect and the boom-bap god finally deliver fifteen tracks of Queens concrete and sample-flip…
Dec 12
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Phil
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Album Review: You Can’t Kill God with Bullets by Conway the Machine
The Buffalo rapper navigates survival, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning across eighteen tracks that map the distance between five Grammy nominations…
Dec 11
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Okoye
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Album Review: Dynamic Duos, Vol. 1 by Erick Sermon
The EPMD architect returns with a curatorial project that celebrates hip-hop chemistry across three decades, centering partnerships that built the…
Dec 9
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs a Trailer by The Game & DJ Drama
The Game hypes his first official Gangsta Grillz tape as a film. The mixtape wants to be an event, but the show playing on screen is a looping trailer…
Dec 7
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: The Leaks by Lil Baby
2025 finds Atlanta star Lil Baby coming off a misfired studio album and a disintegrating world tour. As a compilation, this felt less like generosity…
Dec 4
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Javon Bailey
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Album Review: Sankofa by redveil
A fourth album stretches the DMV-raised rapper‑producer across continents and into the studio, honoring the path that made him while confronting the…
Dec 3
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Phil
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Album Review: Onyx’! by Pink Siifu
Siifu enters this project carrying the weight of every shape-shift he’s made up until the sprawling world-building of Black’!Antique. Onyx’! arrives as…
Dec 1
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Genesis Cadwell
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Album Review: Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time by Jessie J
A decade after her first break, Jessie J isn’t chasing the charts. The singer who once rode the line between pop hits and stage‑school bravado is…
Nov 28
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Alexandria Elise
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Album Review: The Pilot by MAVI
MAVI works out from the chaos of his last record with a sober eye and a heavy heart. This mixtape traces how he confronts the cost of success and the…
Nov 25
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: 2005 by ian
ian built his whole image on being easy to clown. The meme costume fit a little too well, so without further ado, let us introduce you to the worst rap…
Nov 23
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Randy
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