hip hop
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Pink Season makes Pink Guy’s self-titled debut sound like Kidz Bop.
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OutKast’s seminal ATliens is a high-water mark for Southern hip hop.
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Run the Jewels returns with their most politically charged effort yet.
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Kid Cudi returns with an album that plays more toward his strengths. I use the word “strengths” loosely.
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Arizona’s Injury Reserve threatens the rap establishment with one of the most exciting tapes in the underground right now.
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The second installment in our On Track interview series, in association with Skype, I’m talking with Detroit’s own Danny Brown about grills, rap-metal, Christmas sweaters, and his new album. We’ve got some surprise callers, too.
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Post Malone proves his status as a one-hit wonder with his commercial debut, Stoney.
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TDE’s living lyrical conundrum, Ab-Soul, returns for one of his most dense albums yet.
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J. Cole returns with a personal set of vignettes on 4 Your Eyez Only.
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A cut from Ab-Soul‘s newly released LP Do What Thou Wilt. Joined by Mac Miller on the hook and bridge, Soulo professes his love for many people and things, including – you guessed it – drugs. Of course, he does come across as conscious about substance dependence along the way.