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Mick Jenkins releases this song with fellow Chicago rappers Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa. If you needed more evidence that Chicago is the scene of more than just drill, but thoughtful rap with with elastic flows, here it is. Over an orchestral sample and metronomic hi-hats, Mick breaks out
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Milo’s latest mixtape sees the Wisconsin rapper working again with producer Riley Lake. While I think Milo’s verses are worthwhile, it’s really the instrumentals that surprise me the most. WATCH THE REVIEW
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This video is for “Off the Record”, off of Ka’s new record The Knight’s Gambit. The song is a minimal ode to rap music, employing classic album titles as fuel for his wise-man on the corner sermons. The video is equally minimal, as Ka explores the biggest record
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Mac Miller, the world’s most unlikely rap-critic’s pet, has released a fittingly psychedelic video for this cut off of his recent LP Watching Movies With the Sound Off. The video cycles between images of Mac rapping in a room of mirrors filled with lightbulbs and of a pretty
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Hieroglyphics is one of the West Coast’s longest running hip hop outfits, and their 90s roots show up in a big way even on their latest record, the Kitchen, which the group has seen fit to upload in full on their YouTube channel for all to stream. Stream the
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Cakes Da Killa is a New York MC whose latest mixtape, The Eulogy, caught my ear earlier this year. I loved the tape, really. Cake came through on most of the tracks with a blistering flow, high charisma, hilarious lyrics, and more personality than most. I’m happy to see
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A new single from Atmosphere that’s loaded with Bob Seger references. While the tips of the hat to Bob revolve mostly around his hit song “Night Moves,” it actually turns into a pretty cool metaphor for the song. Slug comes off captivating on his two verses here, but I
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Cavalcade by milo Abstract and ultra-personal rapsmith Milo has dropped a new, free collection of tracks that he’s dubbed Cavalcade. The production is handled entirely by Riley Lake, which is a name you might recognize from Milo’s recent Things That Happen At Day EP, which was dropped at
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This new track by Ghospoet is off of his album “Some Say I So I Say Light” on Play It Again Sam. Over a muted and mottled mechanical beat, Ghostpoet sing-raps like King Krule about a dislike of a workaday lifestyle. This track feels very urban and futuristic, but not
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A collaborative review of the new, self-titled Run The Jewels album, which is newly formed–uh, somewhat–duo of El-P and Killer Mike. WATCH THE REVIEW
