As we prepare to wave 2015 goodbye, I think back on the droves of new songs, artists, and sounds that hit the radio waves and my Spotify Discover Playlist this year, and selected a handful of jams that made an impression on me and the hip-hop audience in general. From conscious to ignorant, intoxicating to […]
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In what happens to feel just like a 365-day haze of memes, Snapchat stories, beefs, fire jawnz, Aubrey Graham and dances that white folks eventually ruin, we suddenly find ourselves stumbling onto the doorstep of 2016. But before we come knockin’ to be let in, let’s take a moment to capture our favorites of 2015, […]
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Ah, another end of the year list. Those are always fun, right? I mean, for a barometer of annual milestones, what better way to highlight them all through a simple, easy to read, visual-heavy list? Cakewalk journalism? Of course. But hey, nobody really reads anymore (RIP Grantland and Four Pins) so why not just dilute good […]
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Just as any year before it and sure to come, hip-hop’s 2015 was momentous, disastrous and triumphant in a slurry of events, often dissected both as mega and minutiae. There were beefs, there were memes, there were endorsements and reunions. We saw many a classic album hit a milestone and many a rapper ignite and […]
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As the year comes to a close, I can’t help but be completely in awe of all the music I’ve encountered, for reasons that are pretty obvious. In 2015, we witnessed a resurgence of music that was not only diverse in genre, but culturally and politically resonant. One of the biggest landmarks in music was […]
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