hip hop
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Death Grips drops a video single for the first track to be released from their forthcoming album, Jenny Death, which is also the second half of their yet-to-be-completed double album titled The Powers That B. I reviewed the first installment earlier this year. While it is my job to keep
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What makes Joey Bada$$ such an interesting MC at the moment is, not surprisingly, his combination of youth and talent. This combination leaves us with a technically gifted rapper who is currently at the most crucial moment in his career. While he certainly deserves to succeed, there is always a
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Even after stripping back the hooks and instrumentals, and giving himself center stage, there isn’t much outside of J. Cole’s baseline technical abilities that makes him a compelling rapper and lyricist.
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OG Maco EP Download via Datpiff In a recent interview with The FADER, OG Maco called his newly-dropped self-titled EP “a culmination of every failure and lesson it ever took to achieve victory with my team, with my family and for the world.” Moving past the drama and reflection, OG
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Oh, how the times haves changed. Corporate America, once hated by cool kids alike is now a factory producing some of the most interesting singles and collaborations that are happening today. Adult Swim and Redbull have embraced the notion of acting as enablers for young artistic minds to come together
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West Coast experimental hip hop trio clipping. drop a video for the track “Get Up,” which features one of the strangest instrumentals on their latest album, CLPPNG. The bars aren’t anything to shrug at either as Daveed Diggs delivers one rapid fire line after another. However, we’re talking
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With 36 Seasons, Ghostface Killah tries to recreate the same narrative-based formula he worked with on his last album, but with only a portion of the appeal.
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Shady Records celebrates its 15-year anniversary with a compilation of hits and new material.
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Download: The Neighbourhood – #000000 & #FFFFFF A producer needs a very convincing aesthetic on a mixtape in order to get cooperation from all of his collaborators. The way that every rapper on this tape steps into the atmospheric world and plays their character speaks volumes to the world’s authenticity.
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Pink Label by Psymun Downtempo rhythms and organic hip-hop create a wonderfully drab atmosphere to crawl into on Psymun‘s new album, Pink Label. Taking cues from the recent emphasis on texture in wonky and instrumental hip hop, Psymun creates neverendingly interesting soundscapes that seem to inhabit a dark, yet
