The Hustles Continues is a bit too busy and suffers from a glut of features, but once again proves J’s relevance and absolute buoyancy. There are few constants in this precarious universe that we inhabit: the sky is blue, the grass is green, and as…
My Life 4Hunnid reflects yet a further dip in quality from YG’s long-ago days of Still Brazy. My Life 4Hunnid, YG’s latest, is the type of record one produces when they’ve officially given up on the whole trying thing when it comes to their music.…
To call Bladee a rapper would be a bit misleading — sure, he sorta sings in a cadence and manner one could associate with “rapping,” but the music the young Swedish savant crafts is decidedly outside the parameters that such rigid genre labels would…
If you listened to and believed the hip-hop gatekeepers, influencers, and bloggers (whose reviews read like thinly disguised PR campaigns) from the past few months, you’d be sold on the narrative that 2020 was Megan Thee Stallion’s year. While she doesn’t really have the…
For nearly two decades now, The Avalanches have repurposed pillaged sounds of yesteryear in order to locate a current emotional resonance, to connect the past with the present and vice versa. Within this compelling artistic process, they’ve consistently elucidated how music functions as one…
The Cloud in Her Room is an one-note exercise in empty style that fails to marry its form and content. Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud in Her Room represents the type of opaque arthouse drama that tends to do exceedingly well on the international film…
Monster Hunter suggests that Paul W.S. Anderson has exhausted his bag of tricks and is soullessly recycling familiar fare to diminishing results. The lore of Monster Hunter, the latest film from vulgar auteurist favorite Paul W.S. Anderson, concerns itself with the entanglement of two realms:…
ON-GAKU: Our Sound is something of a strange contradiction, managing both stupidity and profundity in equal measure. Kenji Iwaisawa was able to accomplish something few in the contemporary anime industry are ever able to pull off: he was able to play, and win, completely on…
Nas is washed – King’s Disease confirms it. Nas is, for lack of a better term, washed; this isn’t to clown on the man who’s certainly earned his place within the pantheon of hip-hop GOATs, but to more accurately chronicle just how much of a WOAT…
Wunna is Gunna’s masterpiece, one that finds the low-ceiling rapper maximizing his particular hip hop style. Wunna is a masterpiece — or, to be more accurate, it’s Gunna’s masterpiece. Or, if we’re getting really specific, this is probably the closest Gunna will ever come to…
