The final track off Pac’s last album,The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, “Against All Odds” is filled with paranoia and anger. Not only did Pac go at his rap rivals like Nas and Mobb Deep, he also delved into the deep street politics that got him shot at Quad Studios in the...
the level of Glover’s creativity and fame in other fields putting a question mark over an album that still managed to go gold. His music would get more ambitious (see his Grammy-winning 2018 single “This Is America”). But there’s a backpack full of ideas here, spilling out all over...
Vanish and come back with the undisputed best rap album of your career. You still have it in you. You’ve been a little bored and looking for motivation. This year was it. Killer Mike: I mean, you do what hip-hop has always done. You take your L’s like you take your W’s, ...
Whack World is a surreal audio-visual album that reveals the vivid imagination of the Philadelphia-raised artist, jumping from ideas with the snap of a finger. In her debut record’s short runtime, Whack explores the power of less as more, using every chance to land a new style, flow, ...
OnWe Buy Diabetic Test Strips, Armand Hammer’s constantly molting new album, phones are always intruding into the songs: landlines crackle and die, calls are blocked or dropped, and Siri is a harbinger of death. El-P’s beat for “The Gods Must Be Crazy” sounds like the uneasy fusion...
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But on the third, or fourth, or fifth time I ran through the album, the comparison stuck in my head and I couldn’t shake it. It isn’t so much the songs as what they mean in the context of the album, the way both singular talents are employed by their master arrangers. Both ...
Women are not only referred to by derogatory names, they are frequently lowered to sex objects for entertainment. The common idea of a woman in a rap video is one who is half naked while dancing flirtatiously and seductively behind, or in front of the rapper. Many female rappers make ...
“Part 5” hypes an album but sits outside it; whereMr. Morale & The Big Steppersis gnarled and conflicted, “Heart” is sanguine, resolved. This tone even carries into the video’s heart-stopping final moments, when Lamar assumes the form of his late friend Nipsey Hussle. ”“I look ...
When a critic is given material outside his/her comfort zone to review, they have four options: pretend like they know what they are talking about; trash the album for not sounding like what they’re used to; write a cop-out “if you like this kind of music, you’ll like this” re...