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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown are here to blow up your function

April 14, 2023 • The joyously chaotic rap team-up Scaring the Hoes is less Watch the Throne and more Wedding Crashers: a pair of motormouthed eccentrics running wild trick plays and daring you to stick around.

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Kenny Beats: Tiny Desk Concert

February 13, 2023 • One of the most sought after producers in music brings a trio of familiar voices to the Tiny Desk.

Dystopian Rap Is The Death Rattle Of The American Dream

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Dystopian Rap Is The Death Rattle Of The American Dream

December 11, 2019 • A lot of the rap that felt worth listening to in 2019 was hard to listen to — full of sonic dissonance and emotional distance, and pregnant with a particularly black depiction of dystopia.

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NPR Music's Top 10 Albums Of September

September 30, 2019 • Brittany Howard formed her own true sound, The Highwomen honored country music's history and DaBaby jam-packed KIRK with diamond-grilled, Cheshire Cat finesse.