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Leaving Las Vegas: Baby Keem Bets the House On "Ca$ino"
Marked by digital bounce and resolve in the face of systemic collapse, Baby Keem balances the extreme poverty and familial discord of his childhood with…
 • Paul Thompson
All For Show: Taylor Swift's Quest To Perfect Authentic Inoffensiveness
A cultural examination of why Taylor Swift continues to be everywhere – especially off the back of her most recent LP and documentary.
 • Lily Lady
Writing ‘Mercy’ at the End of the World: An Armand Hammer Review
A requiem in heady 16s, Armand Hammer’s new album with The Alchemist continues their long-standing fight against entropy.
 • Miguelito
The High Priests: Shoreline Mafia Make a Triumphant Return
From ruling the San Fernando Valley party scene to their new album, Back in Bidness, Shoreline Mafia captured West Coast lightning in a bottle.
 • Diego Tapia
Lunchbox Perfects His Liquid Avant-Garde Rap
Miguelito dives into the innovative Harlem rapper's latest album, filled to the brim with avant-garde songs that help reinvent internet rap
 • Miguelito
The World Is A Vampire: Playboi Carti’s “Music” Bites A Little Too Much
The Atlanta rapper’s first two albums invented the sound of the 2020s, but his latest finds his trademark idiosyncrasies blending into the bloated…
 • Miguelito
Tokyo Cigar and August Fanon Create The Next Great Rap Concept Album
This album is the rap equivalent of a film shot entirely in close ups – one more concerned with its subject’s interior life than dramatic twists and…
 • Son Raw
The Profound Absurdity of Rio Da Yung Og
Miguelito reviews Rio Da Yung Og's first album since being free, RIO FREE, which is filled with pensive shit-talking, further cementing him as the…
 • Miguelito
What is Real? The Digital Selves of Vayda
Miguelito dives into the latest project from Atlanta songstress Vayda, leaning into the Matrix and elevating her signature blunt emotional clarity.
 • Miguelito
Kendrick Lamar Puts On for LA on 'GNX' But The Truth Remains Unsaid
Kendrick's latest project GNX marks the return of K. Dot – an impressive showcase of his versatility and love for the LAnd that still fails to…
 • Yousef Srour
Somni's Soul-Searching And Gravity
On the producer's latest project, he expands into singing and crooning, candidly tackling the complicated process of finding one's place in the world…
 • Chris Daly
The Quarter-Life Crisis of Chicago's D2x
Jack Riedy chronicles the existential terrain of Chicago rapper D2x's sophomore album, in which he settles into family life as a husband, father and…
 • Jack Riedy
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