hip hop
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Damn, this is one macabre video. Nooses, snippets of an interview with a convicted murderer, and lines like “I could see the cherry stems in the fucking street” pervade this latest offering from Chicago MC Mick Jenkins. His decision to sample Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is certainly justified. Watch
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Here are two tracks that have recently been dropped by LuckyMe Records on YouTube. They were dropping one song a day up ’til Christmas for a li’l while this past December, and Hudson Mohawke & Lunce were among the many producers featured–I think the Lunice track has been
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With rap cliques being all the rage these days, Hellfyre Club comes together with a new compilation of clever, eccentric hip hop tracks that proves they can’t go uncounted.
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West Coast hip hop vet Del The Funky Homosapien–uh, a.k.a. Zartan Drednaught COBRA–recently dropped a new album on SoundCloud that’s about thirty minutes in length, and features some pretty progressive instrumentals. The overall presentation of the beats and rhymes here is a little more abstract
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NOT O.K. by KOOL A.D. Ex-Das Racist MC Kool A.D. drops his umpteenth project with Not O.K., which I’m finding a bit more enjoyable than his other recent releases. His delivery is still pretty absurd and laid back, but this project is sounding a bit
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Organized Konfusion MC Prince Po and West Coast producer Oh No have teamed up for the collaborative album Animal Serum, due out February 4 via Brooklyn’s Nature Sounds label. Check out the dirty cut “Bearz” above, featuring some hardhitting bars from Roc C. Check it!
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A brand new single from the Scottish experimental hip hop outfit Young Fathers. The group is getting set to drop a new full-length via Anticon on February 3rd. The title of this thing: DEAD. “WAR” isn’t one of Young Fathers’ most hard-hitting tracks, but it is one of their
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New York rapper YC the Cynic drops a b-side from his last full-length LP, GNK, which you can catch a review for below. A lot like many cuts from GNK, YC delivers smart rhymes over a moody beat with some sharp rhythms. Seeing that this guys “throwaways” are great gives
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While Because The Internet is much more likable and ambitious than Childish Gambino’s last commercial effort, Camp, this album is not without its hangups.
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Method Man teams up with the A$AP Mob’s A$AP Nast for a new single titled “Trillmatic,” which has a hard-hitting, vintage boom bap beat that nostalgic hip hop listeners will dig on. While I’m not too crazy about the “funky style” and “funky swag” oozing out
