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By Storm, 'Double Trio'

August 14, 2023 • For seven minutes, the hip-hop duo mourn their friend and former Injury Reserve rapper, pushing both for his liberation and their own.

NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

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The Best Music Of 2021: NPR Staff Picks

NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

December 16, 2021 • The NPR Music production assistant shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.

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The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2021

December 10, 2021 • This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance, erotic power and provocation, Black joy and pain — and that's just the shortlist.

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 (20-11)

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NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 (20-11)

December 1, 2021 • NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

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Injury Reserve, 'Outside'

September 15, 2021 • "Outside" sets the tone for Injury Reserve's deeply claustrophobic, delightfully warped experimental hip-hop album.

The Best Music Of August: NPR Staff Picks

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The Best Music Of August: NPR Staff Picks

September 1, 2021 • Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In August, we got vulnerable with James Blake, leveled up with Foxing, cooed with PinkPantheress, discovered an obscure Polish composer via pianist Lucas Debargue, memorialized a member of Injury Reserve and went back in time to Lee Morgan's weekend residency at the Lighthouse.

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