A$AP Ferg – Trap Lord (Album Review)
Darold Ferguson Jr.– best known as A$AP Ferg, a member of A$AP Rocky’s A$AP Mob– brings a tantalizing skillset to the table, a startling…
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PARTYNEXTDOOR – PARTYNEXTDOOR Review
This spring Drake picked up the first signee for his newly minted OVO Sound imprint in Toronto-based singer and producer PARTYNEXTDOOR. Like The Weeknd,…
AlunaGeorge – Body Music
Music fandom often follows a slow boomerang trajectory: listen to top-40 radio through your tween and early teen years, reject those impulses in favor…
Rich Gang Ft. Birdman, Yo Gotti, Mack Maine & Ace Hood – Dreams Come True (Album Review)
Cash Money’s Birdman-helmed posse album Rich Gang finally hits stores this week after several delays from its original Spring release date, and with it…
Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail
Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne was introduced by Frank Ocean parsing the respective qualities of gods and kings. Two years later, both…
Ciara
Ciara’s 2004 debut Goodies arrived at the tail-end of the last R&B boom. Its best moments used the churn and snap of “crunk’n’b” as…
J. Cole – Born Sinner
Born Sinner, the heavily referential second LP for Roc Nation signee Jermaine Cole, borrows its title from the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy”. By the time…
Action Bronson Saaab Stories
Before you even press play on Saaab Stories, you’re confronted by the unsettling dichotomy within Action Bronson: The Flushing rapper has a tremendous ear…
Kanye West Yeezus
Look at the song title “I Am a God” and it seems like easy blasphemy– Kanye West’s update of John Lennon’s “more popular than…