jazz rap
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While not one of Ferreira’s most robust releases, bob’s son is peppered with interesting and enjoyable ideas.
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Classics Week 2021 kicks off with Things Fall Apart, the 1999 breakthrough in The Roots’ increasingly ambitious career, and a milestone for hip hop at large.
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The surreal and diaristic Little Dominiques Nosebleed makes for a fantastic introduction to The Koreatown Oddity’s work.
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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.