hip hop
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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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Orange Card – Fruitopian Raps by Wanlov The Kubolor It’s been ten years since Wanlov the Kubolor a.k.a. The African Gypsy dropped his debut album Green Card, and to commemorate this, he has come through with Orange Card – Fruitopian Raps, probably the most ambitious installment of his color
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Humanz has its share of strong performances and musical highlights, but all too often its guests are misplaced or poorly utilized and the songwriting/production just isn’t up to the Gorillaz standard.
