pop rap
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Eminem falls just short of ending his career on his latest album, Kamikaze.
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Nicki Minaj still has her energy, technical ability, and sharp lyricism going for her, but too often on Queen these are drowned out by generic production and horrid features.
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On Swimming, Mac Miller continues to work outside of his strengths without improving at all upon the obvious weaknesses of his previous album.
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Head in the Clouds blends into the current wave of trap-flavored pop rap a little too well.
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Everything Is Love relies too heavily on its star power to feel anywhere near as consequential as Lemonade or 4:44.
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The fuck am I looking at—a Brockhampton music video that’s not in 4:3? Y’all were right: RCA changed them! Piss-take aside, “1999 WILDFIRE” is the All-American Boyband’s first official single of the year, promoting their upcoming album The Best Years of Our Lives, and it’
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Sorry to run with the obvious music critic quip, but it is pretty hard to hear what’s so redeeming about Redemption.
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Scorpion continues Drake’s streak of projects that have been padded out to oblivion.
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Ye paints a vivid picture of Kanye’s current state of self and, for as brief as it is, succeeds as an intimate exploration of family and mental health.
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Though Tear has its consistency issues and its concept is sacrificed for the sake of having something for everybody, BTS is making ambitious and passionately performed pop music that puts many of their Western contemporaries to shame.
