New music we currently have on repeat.
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SoundCloud Selections: Playlist 097
New music we currently have on repeat.
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Coachella Announces 2020 Lineup
Starting the year off with a big surprise.
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Best of 2019: Fashion Trends
As 2019 comes to an end, we’re taking a look back at significant fashion trends that have made a statement this year.
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SoundCloud Selections
New music we currently have on repeat.
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SoundCloud Selections
A weekly playlist of the best tracks currently streaming on SoundCloud.
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SoundCloud Selections
A weekly playlist of the best tracks currently streaming on SoundCloud.
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SoundCloud Selections
A weekly playlist of the best tracks currently streaming on SoundCloud.
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Mixtape Monday: DJ Bella Fiasco – Rather Be With U
A playlist for the Valentine Bae.
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Best of 2017: Music Festivals
In 2017, we saw the 6th iteration of Tyler, The Creator’s annual festival.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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Watch Tyler, The Creator Perform Live on The Late Show
A classic Soul Train type of party.
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Your Favorite Hip Hop Celebrities Hit the Met Gala Steps
Flashing…lights,lights.
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Mixtape Monday: SASHA MARIE – Rose Is A Rose
Stop and smell the roses.
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Frank Ocean Drops New Song “Lens” on blonded Radio Ep 4
Featuring Travis Scott.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the visuals you need to be watching.
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Best of 2016: Song Picks Of The Year
Was 2016 that bad? Well, yeah. Yes, it was. But if you just focus on the music, 2016 was undeniably badass.
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Best of 2016: The Album Picks of the Year
Our definitive list of the albums we’ve had on rotation.
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Weekend Visuals
Catch up with the trending hip-hop and R&B videos that dropped this week.
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NAO Shares New Music From “For All We Know”
Patiently waiting for the London songstress to drop this album.
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Album Review: James Blake – The Colour In Anything
There is no congregation at the church of the lovelorn: only a few scattered bodies that pray with the lover, who is lost. On James Blake’s third album The Colour in Anything, we find an artist searching for meaning about the self, within and post relationship. Here, Blake gets help from Justin Vernon, Frank […]
Read moreHip-Hop Gets a Fresh Art Treatment From Geoff Kim
Part surrealism, part pop culture and part mixed media, the work of artist Geoff Kim is a hip-hop vision made in the digital age. Hailing from California and currently residing in New York, it’s easy to see a west coast beach culture influence running through these creations. The works balance both hip-hop icons with […]
Read moreHype Drop: Revisiting “Channel Orange” and Why “Boys Don’t Cry” is 2015’s Most Anticipated Album
It seems as if 2015 has released bombshell after bombshell as far as music goes. Drake released his mixtape-album and still has another in the works, Kendrick’s “To Pimp a Butterfly,” is still being lauded in conversation and let’s not forget a certain gawd has still yet to drop arguably the Hiroshima of them all, […]
Read more2013’s Best: Nova’s Top Albums
I’m really sorry that I’ve neglected you this year, hip-hop. New waves of UK dance pop, PBR’n’B, and the budding chill-trap movement have distracted me from my deep roots with you. Songs by French Montana and 2 Chainz were shrug-while-fist-twisting worthy when I was at the club, but it made me cringe when I realized […]
Read moreLook Back At It: The Dream’s Swap Meet Hat
Look Back At It is an on-going series highlighting the less than dope, but more than hilarious moments in hip hop history. This time around, we go back to earlier to this year at The Grammy Awards. After accepting their award at the podium for their collaboration on “No Church In The Wild”, Frank Ocean, […]
Read moreALBUM REVIEW: Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
Last week Odd Future MC and talented wordsmith, Earl Sweatshirt, dropped his debut LP, Doris. Though the skills were already evident with the young spitter for quite some time now, there were always questions of whether or not he could hold down a complete album by himself. I got my hands on a copy and […]
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