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Billy Woods and Elucid team up on Race Music to make one of the most dense hip hop albums to come out this year. With seventeen tracks laced with this duo’s esoteric lyricism, this one’s gonna require quite a few replays for maximum enjoyment and comprehension. A few
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Ab-Soul has hopped on a remix of Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé’s 2012 single “My Kind of Love.” This remix was dropped in conjunction with the single’s belated US debut, just this week. Thankfully, Ab-Soul’s strong flow and mature bars have made the wait well worth it. Give
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UK rapper ThisisDA dropping some fire on the creatively produced “Panic Attack Rap,” which is said to have been created “with top industry engineers & producers at their EMI studio as part of this year’s 3030 campaign.” All of this came via an invite from Roundhouse, and if stuff
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Pusha T, Virginia rapper and one half of the famed hip hop duo Clipse, released some pretty potent singles before the drop of his new album here; however, the final product seems to be cut with a handful of weak tracks.
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Armand Hammer is the collaborative project of NYC-based MCs Elucid and Billy Woods. Above, check out the hard-hitting “Shark Fin Soup,” a Messiah Musik-produced boom-bap cut from the duo’s new mixtape Half Measures, which can be streamed in full here. But Elucid and Billy Woods weren’t about ready
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Bristol-based MC ThisisDA has shared another cut from his upcoming LP Super Arkane. With its piano-laden hook, understated beat, and laid-back flow, “Elysium” is in stark contrast to the hard-hitting boom-bap of “Lifers,” but ThisisDA’s decidedly conscious lyricism and Mankub’s colorful production still shine through. Check it out
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With hip hop’s often me-centric standpoint, SOL brings something you don’t catch on a lotta tracks these days: Sympathy for your fellow man. SOL doesn’t get too wrapped up in his own problems on this track. Actually, some of the bars here elude to him doing well
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Rapper Danny Brown returns with Old. It’s an album that mirrors the Detroit native’s constant cycle of drug-fueled partying and remorse that was introduced on 2011’s XXX. The major difference this time around being heavier instrumentals and Danny’s split personalities feeling even more at odds.
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West Coast MC LMNO laid some visuals to the track “Dyslexic” early last month, and it’s one of the many cuts from his new, Evidence-produced album, After The Fact. It’s an interesting little concept track with interesting lyrical reversals, switching letters and entire halves of words within bars
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Made Man EP by Hot Sugar Beatsmith Hot Sugar has always had a quirkier style than most when it comes to production, and it’s great to hear him enlist a gauntlet of MCs that compliment it on his new Made Man EP. Now, is this thing really an EP?
