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Off We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, the final album by veteran hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, out now via Epic. Definitely check out their performance of the track on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live if you’ve yet to:
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New York’s A$AP Mob is sounding a little too cozy on The Cozy Tapes, if you know what I’m sayin’.
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In this new classic review, I dive into one of the East Coast’s most legendary rap records: Nas’ Illmatic.
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Flatbush Zombies come through with their most lax, spacey project yet on their commercial debut, 3001: A Laced Odyssey.
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Joey Bada$$ pays tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. on the 19th anniversary of his death with this Statik Selektah-produced track.
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Michigan producer Apollo Brown is putting out a new album called Grandeur on September 25 through Mello Music Group. Your Old Droog is one of the many names in the project’s all-star cast of MCs and we’re happy to premiere his contribution above. Enjoy!
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UK producer, battle rapper, and recording artist Lee Scott comes through with a dark, chill set of tracks produced by fellow rapper Dirty Dike.
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Czarface, the trio of Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric, has just released a video for “Sgt. Slaughter;” the second installment in a two-part series, following last month’s “The Great.” The videos are in support of the project’s recently released sophomore album Every Hero Needs a Villain, which we
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7L, Esoteric, and Wu-Tang’s own Inspectah Deck–a.k.a. Czarface–deliver a sophomore album that’s an improvement on all fronts: lyricism, delivery, production, personality.
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The latest Wu-Tang record defies expectations, featuring even weirder experiments and hooks than the polarizing 8 Diagrams. Still, it should please at least some hardcore fans.
