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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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Music We wonder what would happen if more rappers like The Game and J. Cole would review each other's projects as publicly and directly as this.
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Reviews Logic's ninth album is seven years in the making, and it was well worth the wait.
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Reviews After helping transform hip-hop throughout the 2010s, Young Thug is back and gets more personal than ever on his second studio album, “PUNK”
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Reviews Cardi B’s "Am I The Drama?" falters musically with bloat, but her bold persona and public drama keep it compelling.
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Reviews “Lonely At The Top” finds Joey Bada$$ balancing Brooklyn roots, growth, risk, and the consistency defining his decade-long career.
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Reviews It says it right there on the box, and this uncompromising Future release doesn't need to change who "MIXTAPE PLUTO" is.
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Reviews In "Star Line," Chance The Rapper charts the difficult terrain of love, justice, and selfhood, crafting an album as restless and resolute as he is.
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Reviews Chief Keef's newest album is upon us. But is the wildchild of the rap game starting to become tamed, or is he now just too elusive to follow?
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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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Reviews Nas’s enduring lyrical skill shines over DJ Premier’s production in a way that serves as a fitting conclusion to the Legend Has It series.
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Original Content In light of Drake's newly exposed DMs to Anthony Fantano, we revisit the YouTube music critic's past reviews of Drizzy's catalog.
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Reviews Thugger's vault, brought together by Metro Boomin, provides an engaging and versatile, albeit safe, return to form for the Atlanta trap pioneer.
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Reviews Is "Man Plans God Laughs" deserving of Public Enemy's Hall of Fame title?
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Reviews Ultimately, for an artist who has found himself in an odd place of his career these past few years that have seen him flirting with the idea of leaving hip-hop entirely, "Alfredo 2" is proof that Gibbs is far from reaching a glass ceiling in his career.
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Reviews The Amapiano starlet is daring as ever in her first full-length LP.
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Reviews JT’s latest album is missing some swagger, but it’s still a decent pop project.
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Reviews Over the past few years, people have doubted whether Yeat is the future of rap. This industrial, misanthropic, and hard-hitting LP silences all opposition.
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Music In this article we are discussing and ranking Juice Wrld's albums.
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Reviews With the release of his third album, MMG rapper Wale aims to prove he can be both a lyricist and a poet and still achieve commercial success.
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Reviews Lil Baby's “My Turn” establishes the rapper as a new school leader with more to prove.
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Reviews Tems personal growth is on full display on "Born In The Wild."
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Chukwudi Onyewuchi