Reviews
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Reviews Baby Keem’s sophomore album peels back layers of personal trauma and family history, while finding cohesion and pop potential across a stylistically varied but emotionally focused project.
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Aron A. -
Reviews Ideally, a final statement should leave fans eager for a return, a body of work that commands reflection and conversation. Here, Cole offers a snapshot of craftsmanship at a high point, a reckoning with his own mythos, and a testament to the fact that even the most dependable voices in rap can surprise, falter, and reflect at once.
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Aron A. -
Reviews Young Thug’s “UY Scuti” is messy and uneven yet vulnerable, offering flashes of his pre-incarceration brilliance without reclaiming the superstar stature that once placed him at rap’s upper echelon.
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Aron A. -
Reviews Kendrick Lamar speaks on the latest from Kanye West, "Yeezus."
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Rose Lilah -
Reviews Ten years on, "Graduation" stands as Kanye's first major stylistic shift, as well as his most ill-advised.
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Patrick Lyons -
Reviews Lupe Fiasco's newest album has many listeners saying that old Lupe is back. It looks like that may in fact be the case.
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Reviews Five years on from his last studio album, Fabolous transfers mixtape prowess of recent times into a mainstream record to be reckoned with on the riveting "Summertime Shootout 3"
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Robert Blair -
Reviews Freddie Gibbs settles into a lane and dominates it for eight tracks of dense, enticing psychedelic trap.
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Patrick Lyons -
Reviews After a delayed release, French Montana dropped the 3rd instalment of his Mac and Cheese mixtape series. Another project laden with features, it is hard to simply like or dislike French Montana’s latest work- and with an increasingly polarized rap audience, that may be a bad thing.
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Perry Simpson -
Reviews Looking back at The Roots' sophomore album 21 years later.
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Chris Tart -
Reviews PartyNextDoor elevates his strain of R&B through intimate and vulnerable songwriting on "P4."
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Aron A. -
Reviews Latto proves that luck has little to do with her success on her most versatile project to date, "777."
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Aron A. -
Reviews Rolling Loud did not come to play.
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Angela Savage -
Reviews With no features this time around, “Slimeball 3” attempts to establish Young Nudy as one of East Atlanta's premier acts.
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Narsimha Chintaluri -
Reviews After two focused albums, Gucci Mane gets back to his old, inconsistent ways on the uneven "Return Of East Atlanta Santa."
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Patrick Lyons -
Reviews "Infinite" is a proper send-off for Mobb Deep. Eight years after Prodigy’s death, Havoc recreates their familiar universe, honoring posthumous verses while showcasing his own evolution alongside The Alchemist.
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Aron A. -
Reviews Bktherula's latest album offers a number of sonically-pleasing tracks, though her lyrical diversity leaves a lot to be desired.
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TeeJay Small -
Reviews Metro Boomin and his all-star cast make it clear that the hero is back to reinvigorate trap music in style.
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Robert Blair -
Reviews Key Glock delivers banger after banger on the unrelenting "Yellow Tape 2."
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Rose Lilah -
Reviews "Stoney" is the world-weary, long-awaited debut album from the guy who brought us "White Iverson." Is he still balling hard, or does he stumble on his rush to score big?
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Maxwell Cavaseno
