jazz rap
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Blu & Exile deliver a jazz rap album whose ambition and craftsmanship should go unmatched for some time.
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The sequel to Quelle Chris and Chris Keys’ Innocent Country is one of the rapper’s most sobering efforts and continues his winning streak.
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Purple Moonlight Pages is a thought-provoking self-portrait of the artist formerly known as Milo, as well as just a damn good jazz rap album.
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For the most part, uknowhatimsayin¿ is an amusingly subversive update on some classic rap formulas.
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Even though Cordae wears some of his contemporary influences on his sleeve, The Lost Boy is a solid and promising debut album.
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Freddie and Madlib continue to bring out the best in each other on Bandana.
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Despite some structural shortcomings, Guns is a great work of politically-charged jazz rap.
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Though GREY Area isn’t the most cutting-edge rap album out there, there’s not a spot on it where Little Simz falters even slightly.
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Marquis Hill and his band come through with a vibrant blend of dynamic jazz and conscious hip hop on Modern Flows, Vol. 2.
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Some Rap Songs is Earl Sweatshirt’s most emotionally intense and artistically defined project yet.