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The POW Best Rap Songs of 2021
El Chente de Todos: Into the Complicated Legacy of Vicente Fernández
Ghost in the 404: The Best Dance and Electronic Music of 2021
The Truth Hurts: Drakeo The Ruler's Restoration
Crimestoppers Made Me Famous: On Free Drakeo
Murder Was The Case: An Interview With Drakeo The Ruler
A Jail House Interview With Drakeo the Ruler
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of December 2021
“All I Need Is a Little Flame:” An Interview With Blockhead
"I Just Had to Learn How to Get Money in Different Ways:" An Interview With TEC
Afro Jams of the Week: December 14, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of December 13, 2021
Fly Guy Code: Season 3 Episode 9: All The Bells- “I Fucking Win”
"It's Just Diaries:" An Interview With Kelman Duran
“I’m Just a Servant to the Game, Ya Feel Me?”: An Interview With Wiki
The Retro-Futurist Evolution of YL
Green Carnation's 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness,' at 20
Afro Jams of the Week: December 7, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of December 6, 2021
Celebrating 25 Years of Mobb Deep's 'Hell on Earth'
"I Don’t Deal With Feelings, I Deal With Principles" - An Interview with Dubee
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of November 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: November 30, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of November 29, 2021
Fly Guy Code: Season 3 Episode 7: Too Much Birthday- “The Only Child You’ll Ever Need”
Long Live Young Dolph: A Mix By William Hutson (Clipping)
Afro Jams of the Week: November 23, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of November 22, 2021
Fly Guy Code: Season 3 Episode 6: What It Takes - “Anointed with a Coke”
A True King of Memphis: Remembering Young Dolph
The Top 8 Concerts I Almost Attended In 2021
"They Don't Know I'm Waking Up With Cold Sweats:" An Interview With BandGang Lonnie Bands
Afro Jams of the Week: November 16, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of November 15, 2021
The Sheer Shambolic Procession of 'Learning To Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen'
"Women Are Claiming R&B in a Space That’s Really Authentic to Them": An Interview With BeMyFiasco
On 'Hidemi,' Patrick Shiroishi Uses His Saxophone to Reckon With the History of His Namesake
Afro Jams of the Week: November 9, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of November 8, 2021
On "Expensive Pain," Meek Mill Can Still Spill His Soul
Noise Pollution: Sam Wilkes Forever & More Solo Saxophone
“I Don’t Have To Be Anyone Else When I Get On the Beat”: An Interview With Offset Jim
Afro Jams of the Week: November 3, 2021
"A Man’s Gotta Have a Code": Michael K. Williams and ‘The Wire’
The Rap-Up: Week of November 1, 2021
Fly Code Guy: Season 3 Episode 3: The Disruption - "A Combine Harvester in a Wheatfield of Dicks"
Fighting for 'The French Dispatch'
The Meditative Grind of Long Beach’s Reaper Mook
Afro Jams of the Week: October 26, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of October 25, 2021
Fly Guy Code: Season 3 Episode 2: Mass In Time of War - "I Thought I Heard a Clown Car Pulling Up”
An Excerpt from Eric Harvey's 'Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality'
"We Get More and More Inside the Stage": An Interview With Robert Glasper
Miles Bridges Isn't Just Another NBA Rapper
Afro Jams of the Week: October 19, 2021
Fly Guy Code: Season 3 Episode 1: Secession - "Jump on the Irono-Cycle, and Turn it into a Thing"
The Rap-Up: Week of October 18, 2021
Fly Guy Code: A Definitive Ranking of Every Episode of Succession
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of September 2021
"That Style of Sound Could Be Placed at Any Time:" A Retrospective Interview With Lunice
Handle with Care: Numero Group reissues Pastor T.L. Barrett
"We Opened That Gate of Get Fly, Get Money:" An Interview With AZ
Afro Jams of the Week: October 12, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of October 11, 2021
A Lifelong Yankees Fan Heads to Fenway
Afternoon Bike Ride's Hazy and Nostalgic Post-Meridiem Cruise
"This Was a Letter to All the Other MCs": Freestyle Fellowship's 'To Whom It May Concern'
"So Long, See You Honey": Google's Rapid Shut Down of Discord Music Bots
Afro Jams of the Week: October 5, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of October 4, 2021
Bryson the alien Premieres New "TLC" Music Video Featuring Production by Blu
"Maybe We're Broken Up Into A Million Pieces": An Interview With Drippin So Pretty
Never Bored Again: The Cure for Rings Disease
The Heart of The Heartland: Columbus’ Burgeoning Beat
Honoring the World's Freshest: the Best of DJ Fresh
Afro Jams of the Week: September 28, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of September 27, 2021
Here We Are Now, Entertain Us: A Conversation About Nevermind With The Surviving Members of Nirvana
"You Fear What You May Find in the Mirror:" An Interview With Lukah
Big Sad 1900 Puts On For West LA’s La Cienega Heights
A Decade of Doom: Dome of Doom Records Celebrates 10 Years in the LA Beat Scene
Afro Jams of the Week: September 21, 2021
The Rap-Up: Week of September 20, 2021
The Secret Ingredients to 'Gumbo'!': An Interview with Pink Siifu
Bad Boy Gone Good: LL Cool J’s 'Mr. Smith' at 25
“If It’s Potent, It’s Potent:" An Interview With UDABABY
Noise Pollution: On Digital Chamber Music and More Lounge Pop
"I Was Raised by the Streets, Raised by My Neighbors:" An Interview With ALLBLACK
The Ruler Never Left: Jay-Z's 'The Blueprint' Turns 20
The Rap-Up: Week of September 13, 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: September 10, 2021
"Brutal Honesty Can Be Somewhat Comical:" An Interview With Faye Webster
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of August 2021
The Spectacle of Ye: Kanye West’s 'Donda'
The Rap-Up: Week of September 6, 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: September 3, 2021
The Lox, Talking Sopranos, and the Responsibilities of Nostalgia
They Hate Change: Bedroom Rap All-Stars and Beyond
The Rap-Up: Week of August 30, 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: August 27, 2021
Heltah Skeltah's "Nocturnal" Turns 25
Noise Pollution: On People Being Good (At Things) And Anatolian Psych
The Bug Delivers a Cleansing Fire After a Traumatic Year
The Rap-Up: Week of August 23, 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: August 20, 2021
A Perpetual Victory Lap: Boldy James and The Alchemist’s ‘Bo Jackson’
Never Bored Again: Ringside for KD Draymond III
Decommodify the Dancefloor: An Interview With Jean-Hugues Kabuiku
Noise Pollution: A Fellow Austin Institution, Plus Tricks On How To Be Good At Music
On “Quien Paga”, PIERI Wants You To Pay Attention (And Will Send You Her Pin)
The Rap-Up: Week of August 16, 2021
Son Raw - Machinedrum: Ecstasy Boom
Sach O: P-Money - I Beat the Tune
Afro Jams of the Week: August 13, 2020
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: An Interview With Lil Bean
Noise Pollution: Bahamanian Folk Music And Solo Discos
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of July 2021
“It’s a Lot Easier To Hide in Distortion:” Christopher Hoffman’s ‘Asp Nimbus'
Don’t Die, My Dude: Isaiah Rashad’s 'The House is Burning'
The Rap-Up: Week of August 9, 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: August 2, 2021
Noise Pollution: Calling for a Lounge Music Renaissance and Guitar Music Is Cool Again
Track Review: "Model Village" by IDLES and slowthai
Call Him Mr. Pitiful: O.V. Wright's A Nickel and a Nail
The Rap-Up: Week of August 2, 2021
“Is It Me or Society? I Can’t Tell:” Memphis Hip-Hop and the Slow Cancelation of the Future
Afro Jams of the Week: July 26, 2021
$uede Is So Much More Than the "Mexican Kodak"
The Rap-Up: Week of July 26, 2021
Never Bored Again: Of Course Brook Lopez Becomes Himself
Afro Jams of the Week: July 19, 2021
“I’ve Moved On, But My Heart’s Still in the Trenches:” G Herbo's '25'
Raving Through the End of the World: Go_a's "Shum"
20th Anniversary Retrospective: Cormega's 'The Realness'
"Reading Is Always the Surest Way Out of Writer's Block:" An Interview With PremRock
Roots in the Soil: Smino’s “Rice & Gravy”
The Rap-Up: Week of July 19, 2021
Goodbye Mulberry: The Songs That Defined My Time With My First Car
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of June 2021
Afro Jams of the Week: July 12, 2021
Call It What You Wanna Call It: Tyler Makes A Masterpiece
The Rap-Up: Week of July 12, 2021
"Give Me Something That Is Going To Accelerate Me:" An Interview With Rochelle Jordan
The 5 Rappers Helping Stockton, California Forge Its Own Regional Rap Path
'Nightclubbing' at 40: Grace Jones and the Compass Point All-Stars
Afro Jam of the Day: Masauti and Trio Mío's "No Stress"
“It’s Not a New Chapter, I’m Starting a New Book:" Evidence Is Unlearning His Rap Career
The Rap-Up: Week of July 5, 2021
“Fear Will Ruin You:” An Interview with Fatboi Sharif
"I’m Very Instrumental:" Mach-Hommy's 'Pray for Haiti'
Afro Jam(s) of the Day: Two Afrohouse Gems from South Africa and Guinea-Bissau
"I'm Not Gonna Rap About Rap:" A Conversation with Skyzoo, Winter Soldier
The Rap-Up: Week of June 28, 2021
Lloyd Banks Returns Weathered but Energized on 'The Course of the Inevitable'
Your Rhythm is Rebellion: Mdou Moctar's 'Afrique Victime'
Afro Jam of the Day: Kiko's "Aimer Encore"
Death At The Derby's Intense Football Rivalries in the Form of Rap
A General Sense of Menace: Big Jade’s 'Pressure'
Afterhours Nostalgia: 'Old Time Radio' by Joey Pecoraro
Down the Rabbit Hole: Entering the Universe of Aphex Twin
The Rap-Up: Week of June 21, 2021
One Layer at a Time: 'Somewhere There's Music' by SUNDUR
Trust Your Instincts: L'Orange & Namir Blade's 'Imaginary Everything'
"Jazz Is Black and Must Be Kept That Way:" The Black Jazz Records Essentials
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of May 2021
Reclaiming Your Soul With dereck d.a.c & KIANVSLIFE
Ghost in the 404: May 2021's Best Electronic and Dance Music
The Rap-Up: Week of June 14, 2021
Gifts from the Gods of YouTube Algorithms
Lucas Foster's Essential Introduction to the Memphis Hip-Hop Underground
Who’s The Black Sheep? What’s The Black Sheep?
Never Bored Again: Tom Thibodeau’s Song of “ICE” and Fire
The Rap-Up: Week of June 7, 2021
The Soundtracks and Compilations That Inspired Peter Rosenberg's 'Real Late'
“Sometimes You Just Have to Represent What’s Really Out There:” An Interview With ENNY
Track Review: “Stigmata” by Lukah feat. Boldy James
The Rap-Up: Week of June 1, 2021
Track Review: “Iron Steel Samurai” by Quelle Chris & The Alchemist
The Super Saiyan SoundCloud Rap of ssjishmael
Another Postseason Filled with the Clippers’ Karmic Retribution
The Infectious Fun of Emmet Cohen's Quarantine Jazz
"Without Florida, Who Am I?": An Interview With Trapland Pat
The Imperfect Here and Now: c- and Lillerne Tapes' 'heartland'
The Rap-Up: Week of May 24, 2021
“Back Then I Would Feel So Safe and Loved:” Guapdad 4000 Returns Home
Rhys Langston's 'Stalin Bollywood' and the Catharsis of Cynicism
“Is Master P Karl Marx in This Analogy?": A Roundtable With Dad Bod Rap Pod
Mavericks From the Other Side of the Curtain: A Soviet Jazz Mix
Look Up and Out: An Interview With Daedelus
The Rap-Up: Week of May 17, 2021
"The Music Is Embedded in Me:” An Interview With Dru Down
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of April 2021
Moneybagg Yo's Mass Market Paperback: A Review of 'A Gangsta's Pain'
Ghost in the 404: April 2021's Best Electronic and Dance Music
The Rap-Up: Week of May 10, 2021
Never Bored Again: A Definitive Ranking of NBA Players Association Directors
"Don’t Take Life for Granted:” An Interview With TruCarr
Slowie Speaks His Truth on "What You Know About"
Bruiser Brigade Season: How Danny Brown’s Label Adds Depth to Michigan Rap’s Rise
"God's Favor Put Me into the Position I'm at:" An Interview With Zaytoven
The Rap Up: Week of May 3, 2021
The Lotus and the Void: Toru Takemitsu's Film Scores
Being Real in Rap Is Stressful: An Interview With Tony Shhnow
Pick of the Litter: "Get At Me Dog"
A Seattle Showcase by the Son of "The Mayor:" Upendo Moore's 4-21 Director's Cut
Pick of the Litter: "Miss You"
The Rap-Up: Week of April 26, 2021
Peace and Humptiness Forever: A Tribute to Shock G
The Pick of the Litter: "Come Back in One Piece"
"Ain't No Saving Us, Ain’t No Slaving Us:" Armand Hammer and The Alchemist's 'Haram'
The Pick of the Litter: "Party Up"
Things That Go Bump in the Psyche: A Critical Look at What Makes Boldy James So Compelling
Pick of the Litter: "How It's Goin' Down"
“This Is What This West Coast Shit Look Like:" An Interview with NHale
The Pick of the Litter: "Blackout"
The Rap-Up: Week of April 19, 2021
The Making of MC Eiht’s “Streiht Up Menace”
The Pick of the Litter: “Prayer (Skit)"
"You Can’t Live Life with a Dead Soul:" An Interview with Adrian Younge
The Pick of the Litter: “Pull It"
Catharsis and Decaying the Cliché: A Guide to Egyptian Electronic Producer ZULI
The Pick of the Litter: "Stop Being Greedy"
The Pick of the Litter: "Slippin'"
The Pick of the Litter: "Bout Shit"
The Rap-Up: Week of April 12, 2021
The Pick of the Litter: “4, 3, 2, 1”
Ransom & Nicholas Craven: New Rap Language Cinephiles
There’s No Place Like Home on “EasterGunn Day 4”
Never Bored Again: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow for Pascal Siakam
Infectious Joy Conquers Politics and Persecution: An Introduction to Romanian Manele
Ghost in the 404: March 2021's Best Electronic and Dance Music
The Rap-Up: Week of April 5, 2021
Not Your Average Acid Flashback: A Son Raw Vs. The Psychotic Hippies Album Review
XL Middleton & Delmar Xavier In The City
The Beginning of the Infinite: An Interview with the Extraterrestrial Duo IKOQWE
Aesop's Fable of Long Legged Larry
The Mysterious End of ILLFIGHTYOU, and the Future of Tacoma Music
Letting Go and Accepting Where You Land: Julien Baker's Little Oblivions
The Rap-Up: Week of March 29, 2021
The Lasso's Chameleonic Transformation to Bandleader: The 2121 Album Review
WE’RE JERKIN’ (STARRING THE NEW BOYZ, J-HAWK AND PINK DOLLAZ)
Never Bored Again: Mike Budenholzer Makes the Trains Run On Time
Producing While Walking: An Interview With Senz Beats
The Rap-Up: Week of March 22, 2021
"I Had To Absorb Everything and Learn:" An Interview with NOLAN
"All of Those Scratches Tell the Tale:" An Interview with Curren$y
Digging Through the Crates: Revisiting Harry Fraud's Kindred Collaborations
Oh, it's Such a Shame: 15 Years After Blood Visions
"I Like to be Part of the Hero Rising:" An Interview with Breeze Brewin
A Definitive Ranking of the 21st Century's Worst Oscar Snubs (2021 Update)
“This is Creativity”: A Conversation with DJ Muggs
The Rap-Up: Week of March 15, 2021
Up Too Early: An Interview with Leeor Brown and Somni
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of February 2021
The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs
Never Bored Again: Evaluating the Top Shot Futures Market
A Scientific Ranking of the Top 57 Kasher Quon Songs
Unbelieveable: A Ranking of Every Biggie Smalls Track
The Rap-Up: Week of March 8, 2021
The State Versus Pablo Hasél: A Spanish Tragedy
"My Art Came from Within:" An Interview with Gabe Nandez
The Rap-Up: Week of March 1, 2021
The Best Wrestling Matches of 2020
"If You Don't Continue to Practice, Then You Will Lose It:" An Interview with Karriem Riggins
An Interview with Chuck Strangers
Never Bored Again: The Ballad of Iso Zo
"If Anyone's in the Way, They're Going to Get Knocked Over:" An Interview with KINGMOSTWANTED
Making the Highlight Reel: Region-Specific Rap Songs for Each Top 10 Basketball Recruit
"You Have to Go Through Different Shit in Life to Make Music:" An Interview with Babyface Ray
The Rap-Up: Week of February 22, 2021
Where There is No Time: Madlib's Sound Ancestors
Every Brother Counts: An Interview with EBK Young Joc
Hero vs. Villain: Sofa King and Other Royal Furniture
The Pretty Toney Coaching Tree
A Brief Introduction to al.divino
The Rap-Up: Week of February 16th, 2021
Bursting the G-League Bubble: 5 Teams to Watch This Season
Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of January 2021
Never Bored Again: De'Aaron Fox & the Dead
"Everybody Says I Got a Heart of Gold:" An Interview with Rx Papi
The Making of People Under the Stairs' "Acid Raindrops" and "San Francisco Knights"
Xinxin Pick Nine Records Which Influenced Their Ambitious Debut
“I Had Wanted to Put Out a Rap Project For So Long:” An Interview with Ovrkast.
The Rap-Up: Week of February 8, 2021
“This Might Sound Crazy, But I Don’t Give a Fuck. This is My Story:” An Interview with Outlaw Mel
Apres Eux Le Deluge: Light in the Attic's Somewhere Between chronicles experimental Japanese pop
"I Thought I Was Supposed to Be a Pastor:" An Interview with Morray
The Confounding Beauty of Gus Van Sant's 'Last Days'
1nce Again: Suzanne Vega -- "Tom's Diner (DNA Remix)"
Smashing the D-League: Soundcloud Rappers and the NBA
Hero vs. Villain: "Gorilla Monsoon"
The Rap-Up: Week of February 1, 2021
RIP Double K, Long Live People Under the Stairs
The Making of M.O.P.'s "Ante Up"
Never Bored Again: The Last Basketball Team in Oakland
Hero vs. Villain: "Absolutely"
The Weird, Wild Ride of James Harden on the Houston Rockets
"Everybody Got Their Certain Intentions For You:" An Interview With Ola Runt
Hero vs. Villain: "November Has Come"
Abe Beame's Personal Ranking of the 30 Most Embarrassing Rap Songs Ever Made
The Rap-Up: Week of January 25, 2021
Slam on the CDJ's 25 Best Sets of 2020
Hero vs. Villain: King Geedorah's "Monster Zero"
Slam on the CDJ's Best Sets of 2020: #50-26
Never Bored Again: Let Jeff Van Gundy Talk His Shit
The Making of Aesop Rock's "Daylight"
Hero vs. Villain: "Victory Laps"
20/20 Vision: Ghostface Killah -- Supreme Clientele
Hero vs. Villain: "Fancy Clown"
The Rap-Up: Week of January 19, 2021
Hero vs. Villain: "That's That"
A Guide to Soundcloud's Demonic Underworld
Hero vs. Villain: "The Gas Face"
"How Could You Watch a Movie and Not Like the Dialogue?:" An Interview with Fly Anakin & Pink Siifu
The Rap-Up: Week of January 11, 2021
Hero vs. Villain: "What a Niggy Know (Remix)"
Hero vs. Villain: "The Chocolate Conquistadors"
Never Bored Again: Kevin Durant's Search for Meaning
Hero vs. Villain: "Pennyroyal"
Hero vs. Villain: DOOM in Cologne
Serge Gainsbourg-"Bonnie & Clyde"
The 50 Best Albums of 2007 (Day 3 Presented By The 40/40 Club)
Hero vs. Villain: "Rhymes Like Dimes"