hip hop
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Hear a Sean Price, Bun B, and Styles P-featuring cut from Statik Selektah’s new album Lucky 7, out July 7 via Duck Down.
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West Coast hopeful Vince Staples releases his debut album.
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Lil Ugly Mane’s latest compilation is a genre-hopping collection of warped musical beauties.
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Jay Rock’s follow-up to Kendrick Lamar’s “Money Trees” receives a video.
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Florida rapper Denzel Curry drops a double EP set, but gets no closer to a distinctive sound than he was on Nostalgic 64.
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Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment’s long-awaited Surf capitalizes on very little of its full potential.
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New York rapper and A$AP Mob figurehead A$AP Rocky’s latest album diverts from the concise and catchy formula of his last record.
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While I enjoy the creepy, subdued style of New York City rapper Ka, this new collaborative project with producer Preservation doesn’t seem to push his artistic vision beyond his last few projects. Nor does it capitalize fully on the Manchurian Candidate references.
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Snoop Dogg returns from his reggae stint with a Pharrell-produced synth funk album.
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DC rapper Wale reaches into his past on this latest commercial project, incorporating Seinfeld clips and themes in the same way he did on his popular Mixtape About Nothing. However, the results aren’t nearly as impressive.