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Mustafa, Toronto's hood poet, shoulders the stories of the lost

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Mustafa, Toronto’s hood poet, shoulders the stories of the lost

Rap is the CNN of the ghetto. An idea espoused by Public Enemy frontman Chuck D since the 1980s, it has since grown into a key hip-hop ideal, defining the music’s relationship with its public. Throughout its history, hip-hop has spotlit the turmoil faced by Black communities, in housing projects and neighborhoods from coast to coast — and, eventually, around the world. Chuck’s framing was a bit limited — rappers […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

LL Cool J's 2024 album The FORCE finds the rapper looser and more agile than he's sounded in years, assisted by eclectic production from Q-Tip. Cory Grimes

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Golden-age rappers make a digital-age leap — and survive

LL Cool J's 2024 album The FORCE finds the rapper looser and more agile than he's sounded in years, assisted by eclectic production from Q-Tip. Cory Grimes In 2016, De La Soul, one of rap’s most elemental groups, had to start from scratch. After elevating hip-hop in the late 1980s and ‘90s with a four-album run that rivals any in the history of the genre, the trio found itself snake-bitten […]

todaySeptember 30, 2024

Doechii channels a panoramic relationship to her own thoughts and voice on the new mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. John Jay

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Doechii is too big for your small screen

Doechii channels a panoramic relationship to her own thoughts and voice on the new mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. John Jay Virality stoked an insatiable hunger in the effervescent Tampa rapper Doechii. After the 2021 cut “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake” amassed millions of tags on TikTok, she finally found herself playlisted by Spotify, and all she could think about was the next stage of her breakthrough. “I was like, OK, how […]

todaySeptember 5, 2024

Tinashe and Ravyn Lenae lean into the paradox of 'alt-R&B'

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Tinashe and Ravyn Lenae lean into the paradox of ‘alt-R&B’

Quantum Baby is Tinashe's seventh album, and the second in a purported trilogy that began with last year's BB/ANG3L. Raven B. Varona “I don't like to be stuck in the ‘R&B box,’ ” Tinashe told USA Today in 2014. By that point, “R&B” had come to feel almost like a pejorative to a certain kind of artist, particularly Black women experimenting with form. As Dawn Richard put it in 2017: […]

todayAugust 23, 2024

JPEGMAFIA performs in 2023 at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City. Keeyahtay Lewis on behalf of The Rooftop at Pier 17

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JPEGMAFIA, rap’s most tireless agitator, looks inward

JPEGMAFIA performs in 2023 at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City. Keeyahtay Lewis on behalf of The Rooftop at Pier 17 In January, the rapper and producer JPEGMAFIA ignited some frustrated chatter online when a photo of him and Kanye West, hinting at a collaboration, appeared on his Instagram. JPEG had long been vocal about how much he revered Kanye, and the role that the G.O.O.D. Music […]

todayAugust 9, 2024

Two years after her breakthrough single, Ice Spice released her debut album, Y2K!, on July 26. Coughs/Courtesy of the artist

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Ice Spice seized the moment — but maybe not the right one

Two years after her breakthrough single, Ice Spice released her debut album, Y2K!, on July 26. Coughs/Courtesy of the artist We nearly reached the Ice Spice singularity the weekend of the Super Bowl. The evening of Feb. 11, just as an ad featuring the Bronx rapper debuted on the biggest night in American television, she popped up in a box at the game itself, side-by-side with the most gargantuan force […]

todayAugust 1, 2024

Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe and more from a tellingly modern week

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Unpacking hip-hop’s sprawl in 2024’s most eclectic release date

Megan Thee Stallion onstage in June at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, a stop on her Hot Girl Summer Tour.Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Live Nation/Getty Images North America Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe and more from a tellingly modern week These days, the music faucet never turns off: Pop into your listening app of choice on any given Friday, […]

todayJuly 5, 2024

Kendrick Lamar takes the West Coast off standby

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Kendrick Lamar takes the West Coast off standby

Kendrick Lamar performs during "The Pop Out — Ken & Friends," his June 19 concert event at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Timothy Norris/Getty Images for pgLang, Amazon/Getty Images North America When Kendrick Lamar released Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers in 2022, he was jittery with agitation. There were many reasons within the songs for him to be anxious, which spend hard-earned therapy hours working through trauma, but […]

todayJune 21, 2024

Vince Staples Dark Times

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Vince Staples, the visible man

Vince Staples' latest album, Dark Times, represents a new direction in an already singular major-label rap career.Shaniqwa Jarvis/Courtesy of the artist There is an early episode of The Vince Staples Show, the titular rapper’s Netflix tragicomedy about a fictional version of himself, that puts the dual nature of his fame in stark terms. The onscreen Vince applies for a small business loan at a high-class bank, and is effectively laughed out […]

todayMay 31, 2024

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