abstract hip hop
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billy woods has shared the lead single and video from Known Unknowns, the follow-up to 2015’s Today, I Wrote Nothing. That album was woods’ most abstract project to date, but with “Groundhogs Day” we seem to be picking up more where his 2013 album, Dour Candy, left off. Blockhead
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Shabazz Palaces have announced another cosmic concept album titled Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and shared the lead single ‘Shine a Light,” featuring fellow Seattle rapper Thaddillac. The full project drops July 15 via Sup Pop.
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With PACKS, Brooklyn’s Your Old Droog continues to flex his lyrical muscles on his most focused album yet.
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With RA2, Jonwayne delivers a disheveled set of alternative hip hop tracks that have potent senses of humor and emotion.
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Though Being You Is Great… contains some of Quelle Chris’ most obtuse material, it is also the Detroit MC’s most ambitious and cohesive album yet.
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Praying there’ll be another full-length Captain Murphy project in the near future…
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Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman drop another handful of free tracks to follow up their free 2015 EP Lice.
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Back in April, New York hip hop artist ELUCID released his revelatory third album, Save Yourself, through Backwoodz Studioz. Above, you can hear a remix of the project’s penultimate track courtesy of Milo. If there’s any rapper/producer thoughtful enough to pull off this remix, it’s Milo,
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Open Mike Eagle & Paul White come together for a smart, solid collaborative album.
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With his new project titled Thumbs, experimental hip hop artist Busdriver comes through with some afterthoughts to supplement the stellar ideas he explored on his last full-length album, Perfect Hair.
