hip hop
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The latest album from New York’s Uncommon Nasa is as grimy as it is experimental and conceptual.
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Armand Hammer drops a post-album EP of fan-pleasing odds ‘n’ ends.
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Chicago MC Mick Jenkins drops a verbose and water-themed mixtape.
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Despite this being the commercial debut of this New York hip hop duo, the Underachievers are sounding a bit rougher than they did on their breakthrough tape Indigoism.
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Mellowhype’s latest project shows an enjoyable increase in technical skill since their last full-length affair–even if the end the result is sort of generic.
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Husky-voiced Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins drops a moving and metaphorical video for his upcoming project titled The Water[s]. It’s officially out August 12th. “Jazz” features a beautiful, minimal beat that’s guided by what I think are some gleaming vibraphone melodies. I love the way the chorus swells,
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New York MC Joey Bada$$ brings the first single from his highly-anticipated commercial debut, B4DA$$. A lot like a song or two from his last tape, Joey is coming off aggressive on this new single, “Big Dusty.” Very aggressive! I’d go as far as to say there are moments
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TEKLIFE TILL THA NEXT LIFE VOL.1 by TASO Teklife producer TASO has produced one of my favorite tracks of 2014 right here, and it comes off a compilation he dropped with fellow DJs Rashad, Spinn, and Manny back in March. The hooky vocal samples and rattling trap rhythms are
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https://soundcloud.com/alt-j/story-4-sleeplessly-embracing-a-remix-by-clipping “Hunger of the Pine,” the lead single off alt-J’s forthcoming LP This is All Yours, was already a plenty fierce song – from its progressive, horn-adorned composition, to its prominent Miley Cyrus vocal sample, to its Hunger Games-esque music video. However, the song just got
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1406688160&x-yt-cl=72201704&v=uHaZiV8Ns6c Last month, Houston-based avant-garde rapper and musician B L A C K I E announced a new studio full-length titled IMAGINE YOURSELF IN A FREE AND NATURAL WORLD. No release date yet, but this lead single “None
