hip hop
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Young Thug delivers his most melodic and pop-friendly project yet with Beautiful Thugger Girls.
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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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Denzel Curry and BADBADNOTGOOD each embark upon one of their most ambitious musical undertakings by reinventing banger-of-the-decade contender “Ultimate” with live instrumentation. I’m more surprised by the trippy video than I am the fact they pull it off. Feels like I dropped acid…or edited a thatistheplan video. Denzel
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Lil Yachty’s debut album is a horrific disappointment.
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LA-based hip hop collective/boyband Brockhampton is releasing its second mixtape, Saturation, next month. Coming off strong singles like “Heat,” “Face,” and now “Gold,” it’s become one of my most highly anticipated projects this year.
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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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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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