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Mach-Hommy / Tha God Fahim: Notorious Dump Legends: Volume 2 Album Review
The rappers deliver an album filled with serpentine, enigmatic stories and gloomy beats. It doesn’t have the gloss and pomp of their best work, but it highlights the pair’s complementary gifts. → Read More
Listen to NOLAN’s “ILY” [ft. Kelly Moonstone]: New Rap Music Today
NOLAN’s “ILY” [ft. Kelly Moonstone] Detroit rapper-producer NOLAN may have started out as a bruiser, but intimacy is now his secret weapon. He’s softened the breakneck, traditionalist approach of his early projects, gradually exploring melody and flow over plush, minimal production. His latest album, don’t get TOO excited, is a journey through new love, as leisurely and flirtatious as a winking… → Read More
Maxo: Even God Has a Sense of Humor Album Review
The California rapper takes stock of his life on an introspective album that balances melancholy and bliss over lush, sampled loops and opulent live-band instrumentation. → Read More
Phiik / Lungs: “Captain Picard” Track Review
On the highlight from their album Another Planet 4, the Long Island rappers cram in as much personality as possible as they rap to their own internal metronome. → Read More
Jadasea / Laron: The Corner: Vol. 1 Album Review
With terse existential inquiries and sun-faded samples, the full-length collaboration between the London rapper and the Brooklyn producer sounds at home on two continents. → Read More
Listen to Quadry’s “Exhibit A (remix)” [ft. Chris Patrick]: New Rap Music Today
Quadry - “Exhibit A (remix)” [ft. Chris Patrick] Baton Rouge rapper Quadry will air out his own dirty laundry to tell a compelling story. His voice, loose and thick as gumbo with a sharp Louisiana twang, boasts a confidence that’s often underlined by the anxiety of the secrets he reveals. The remix for his single “Exhibit A” is no exception, a tale of new love, nerves, and doomscrolling through… → Read More
Lance Skiiiwalker: Audiodidactic Album Review
Seven years after his debut, the Top Dawg fixture returns to his habitual stylistic fusions but too often, his muddy, psychedelic haze fails to summon the dreamlike quality it’s aiming for. → Read More
SKECH185: He Left Nothing for the Swim Back Album Review
On his full-length Backwoodz debut, SKECH185’s hoarsely confrontational rapping finds a perfect match in producer Jeff Markey’s jumpy, abrasive beats. → Read More
Listen to OG Spliff and argov’s “building”: New Rap Music Today
OG Spliff and argov - “building” What gets me about North Carolina rapper OG Spliff is how he makes the blood, sweat, and tears of rapping seem as effortless as an afternoon breeze. On “building,” one of two singles released last week, he’s unafraid to show his scars like Harry Potter but also exudes a cool confidence as evidenced by his willingness to compare himself to gymnast Simone Biles.… → Read More
Listen to King Vision Ultra’s “Swing!” [ft. Nakama.]: New Rap Music Today
King Vision Ultra - “Swing!” [ft. Nakama.] King Vision Ultra’s music has all the grit and personality of a shoe print in wet cement. The grooves of the New York producer’s beats swerve between genres—electronic, post-punk, jazz—but always converge at hip-hop. “Swing!,” a standout from his latest project, the Algiers-hosted mixtape Shook World, is eerie and foreboding, even by his standards. A… → Read More
Tha God Fahim / NicoJP: Chess Moves Album Review
The underground hip-hop veteran’s new EP flirts with chess metaphors, but the mundane raps don’t help the thematic wallpaper hold up. → Read More
Listen to Papo2oo4’s “Smile Like G-Unit”: New Rap Music Today
Papo2oo4 - “Smile Like G-Unit” Elizabeth, New Jersey rapper Papo2oo4 has a lot to be happy about, and it’s not just because his nostalgic but forward-thinking East Coast hip-hop is reaching more ears. “We was told life was short, but we here still smiling/You think I’m foldin’? Must be trippin’ off the psilocybin,” he says at the start of “Smile Like G-Unit,” the closing track from his latest… → Read More
Listen to Luke Bar$’s “I Feel Like Aaliyah”: New Rap Music Today
Luke Bar$ - “I Feel Like Aaliyah” Luke Bar$’s croaky, nasal voice is one of the more distinct ones in hip-hop. Its uniqueness is on full display on “I Feel Like Aaliyah,” the closing track on his second album Angels Never Die. Over a sunny, skittering beat from producers Latrell James and Tee-Watt, he’s ducking the haters, confronting his ego, and unpacking his relationship with his father with… → Read More
Fatboi Sharif / Roper Williams: “Cinnamon” Track Review
The highlight from their collaborative EP, Planet Unfaithful, relies on stark imagery and a woozy, drumless loop. → Read More
Oddisee: To What End Album Review
On his 10th solo studio album, the D.C.-based underground rap vet unpacks emotional baggage and asks what—if anything—he’s willing to compromise for the sake of success. → Read More
B. Cool-Aid / Pink Siifu / Ahwlee: “Cnt Go Back ( Tell Me )” [ft. Liv.e, Butcher Brown, Jimetta Rose, V.C.R and Maurice II] Track Review
On the lead single from their upcoming album, Leather Blvd., Pink Siifu, Ahwlee, and collaborators groove at their own pace. → Read More
03 Greedo / Mike Free: Free 03 Album Review
On his first tape since his release from prison, the Los Angeles rapper and folk hero sounds battered but resilient, mixing studio sessions with tracks recorded over the phone from inside. → Read More
Sauce Walka: Sauce Ghetto Gospel 3 Album Review
The Houston rapper reprises his Sauce Ghetto Gospel series, bringing his booming baritone to diaristic confessions and slick songs of celebration. → Read More
Listen to Monday Night and 3WaySlim’s “Dawned On Me”: New Rap Music Today
Monday Night and 3WaySlim - “Dawned On Me” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Richmond rappers Monday Night and 3WaySlim are not the first to spit about turning a past moving drugs into a brighter future, but their collaborative EP Good Company gives the duo’s accounts a bespoke sheen that’s hard to resist. Little things pop out on “Dawned On Me”: the voices… → Read More
Little Simz: “Gorilla” Track Review
On the favorite from her latest album NO THANK YOU, the rapper boasts over triumphant horns and thick bass plunks. → Read More