Albums
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Griselda ‘Wwcd’ 1 Listen Album Review
The Buffalo trio’s major-label debut is meat-and-potatoes rap served with a side of grit on a Balenciaga placemat.
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Earl Sweatshirt’s Imprecise Words: ‘Some Rap Songs’ 1 Year Later
With ‘Some Rap Songs,’ rapper Earl Sweatshirt figured out how to gather an audience on his own terms.
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03 Greedo & Kenny Beats ‘Netflix & Deal’ 1 Listen Album Review
‘Netflix & Deal’ is as indulgent as a bucket of movie theater popcorn with just a little too much butter.
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10 Years Later: Inside Rihanna’s Dark & Deeply Personal ‘Rated R’
One time for Rihanna’s fearlessness.
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How Kanye’s ‘Jesus Is King’ Made Me Appreciate Christianity for the First Time
Kanye is an imperfect person. ‘Jesus Is King’ is an imperfect album. Christianity is an imperfect religion. But they can all inspire us to do better.
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Meet 99 Neighbors, Rap’s Latest Hydra: In Their Own Words
“I used to work at a shitty restaurant bussing tables and got fired because I missed a shift to work on our last album.”
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Meet ROLE MODEL, an Artist Who Doesn’t Need to be Perfect
Take him or leave him, but don’t ever say ROLE MODEL didn’t know himself.
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Method Man’s ‘Tical’ 25 Years Later: An Imperfect Experiment
For the expanded Wu universe to have existed at all, the noticeable missteps of Tical had to come first.
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It’s Snowing & I Can’t Stop Playing Deb Never
Deb Never is an LA-based musician who makes… Well she doesn’t make happy music.
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FKA twigs & the Torture of Yearning
We listen to ‘MAGDALENE,’ and we remember everyone we have ever loved, and how easily they stopped loving us.
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Wiki Embraces Himself on ‘OOFIE’: Review
The 26-year-old New York rapper documents his growing pains on his second studio album, ‘OOFIE.’
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Emotional Oranges Create a Retouched Photograph on ‘The Juice Vol. II’: Review
The actual music on ‘The Juice Vol. II’ is good—great, even. It just feels over-produced.