experimental hip hop
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At over 90 minutes, Lil B’s “first official mixtape” is chock-full of freewheeling, creative highs; as well as lows that range from mundane to annoying.
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Shabazz Palaces return with deeply flawed twin concept albums.
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Tyler, the Creator blossoms as a rapper, producer, and lyricist on Flower Boy, his most beautiful and well-crafted album to date.
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For a track on his new EP The Mountain Has Fallen, DJ Shadow teamed up with Danny Brown and the results are fucking fireworks! The producer and rapper complement each other perfectly as they deliver a tour de force of grimy hip hop that’s well off the beaten path.
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who told you to think??!!?!?!?! by milo Everything that impressed me about milo‘s previous album, including Kenny Segal’s intricate production, is in full force on this latest single “magician (suture).” The stuttering vocal edits in particular might be the coolest production trick I’ve heard on one of
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Vince Staples’ Big Fish Theory is the Long Beach rapper’s most eclectic project yet, but still exposes major songwriting deficiencies.
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Bones comes through with a brilliantly-titled dark banger featuring a verse from none other than Danny Brown! The track is featured on Bones’ new NoRedeemingQualities mixtape.
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On Saturation, Brockhampton jells in a way no other group their size has in quite some time. Definitely my frontrunner for hip hop project of the year at the moment.
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Death Grips teases toward a new album with an intense, high-speed megamix that’s bound to land on my year-end EP list.
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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.
