hip hop
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OK, A$AP Ferg’s “Let It Go” music video: Mutants! Ninjas! Teleportation! Damsel! Distress! Rocket arms! Explosions! AAHHHH! All of the explosions! TRAPLORD to the freaking rescue! Praise his name! The videography here calls to mind any number of crummy (in the best way) 80s sci-fi crime films, mostly
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UK rapper ThisisDA drops his new mixtape, Super Arkane, which you can download here. While he’s not far along enough just yet to have sculpted his own, unique style, the dude’s delivery gets more and more compelling with each new track. The smooth, grooving instrumentals courtesy of Mankub
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UK rapper ThisisDA drops his new mixtape, Super Arkane, which you can download here. While he’s not far along enough just yet to have sculpted his own, unique style, the dude’s delivery gets more and more compelling with each new track. The smooth, grooving instrumentals courtesy of Mankub
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Schoolboy Q might not be an amazing lyricist, and his new album might have a handful of filler hooks, but Oxymoron also shows him riding a variety of beats with an impressive level of precision. Not only that, but a number of tracks here bring back the grit and vulgarity
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Some dark, fiery R&B from this new, collaborative track from Shlohmo & Jeremih. The vocals on this track are emotive, pained, and featured a splash of reverb a la the Weeknd. While I do see some obvious stylistic similarities, this song really separates itself form that with the
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Step Brothers’ Lord Steppington is a great mixed bag of chill flows set against b-a-n-g-i-n-g beats. Even the more subdued instrumentals bring heat. While some tracks pale in comparison to others, there’s a lot to love here.
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While Tennessee rapper Isaiah Rashad proves himself as a capable spitter and lyricist on this project, it’s the storytelling, instrumentals, and choruses that are occasionally lackluster.
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More Black Milk already? It was only a few months ago that he dropped his fantastic album No Poison No Paradise, and he’s already got a new EP due out next month, titled Glitches in the Break. Above you can stream the project’s lead single “Cold Day,” featuring
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A hilarious and breezy new music video from New Jersey’s GDP for his song “The Next Day.” The B&W music video of nothing more than the MC taking occasional sips from a bottle of Coca Cola kind of reminds me of a recent Xiu Xiu one – Both
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As I’ve been telling you, Prince Po and Oh No are dropping a collaborative album titled Animal Serum, but this has to be the most exciting track to drop from this project thus far. Why? Well, Pharaohe Moth lands on this thing, which essentially makes this track a bit
