hip hop
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No Shame is not without a few highlights, but on the whole it’s Hopsin’s most tone-deaf album to date.
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Jaden Smith’s latest film is an auditory one, exploring the lyrical follies of a rich-kid-turned-mediocre-rapper in desperate need of perspective as he produces 70 minutes of egotistical propaganda in the hope it will launch his rap career.
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Elusive NYC hip hop duo Armand Hammer is back for one of the grimiest rap records of 2017.
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Cloud rap sorcerer Yung Lean returns with his most enjoyable and aesthetically mature album to date.
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Skepta’s new EP starts strong enough and even offers a miraculous banger featuring the Based God himself, but it instantly takes a nosedive in the second half.
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Gorillaz and Little Simz are a winning combination in “Garage Palace,” which sounds like UK hip hop crossed with a 16-bit arcade fighter or RPG. Oh, that’s how it looks too. The track is one of many bonuses on the super deluxe version of Humanz, which is out now.
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21 Savage, Offset, and Metro Boomin teamed up for a solid collaborative album just in time for Halloween.
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The Mississippi quadruple threat is back with an epic double album that puts him at a new level.
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Two of Atlanta’s biggest stars link up for a somewhat informal collaborative project.
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While he does wear his influences on his sleeve, Lou the Human’s precise flows and dark sense of humor serve as a reminder of what makes underground hip hop so great.
