During the summer of 1991, cousins Robert “Bobby” Diggs and Gary Grice were trying to get busy and do the impossible. They had both…
Shape Up’s boasts a catchy, assured first half, but ultimately suffers from too much bloat and poor sequencing. There’s a solid EP worth of…
Who is Nardo Wick? is a successful enough introduction to the eponymous rapper, superficial but with personality to carry him forward. Just exactly Who…
Weight of the World finds Maxo Kream once again improving his sound, carrying through his evolving maturity with ever-present swagger. Lately, Maxo Kream has been…
These Things Happen Too is a dud of an album, full of performative soul-bearing and rife with G-Eazy’s insecurity about his rap credentials. By the…
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night isn’t dull, but it plays more like an album of what other, better artists sound like. After a…
Ry Ry World is the best kind of sophomore album, one that improves and expands on Mariah the Scientist’s debut while retaining its singularity.…
Young Nudy continues to crank out songs, but Dr. Ev4l is an album full of similar-sounding, monotonous titles that do little to inspire. PDE…
Despite remaining mostly palatable, BROCKHAMPTON’s underwhelming latest makes a strong case that it should be the terminus of their collaborative efforts. When Kevin Abstract…
As Jazmine Sullivan’s first album in six years, Heaux Tales puts her talents on display and successfully ignores the standard R&B industry traps. Jazmine Sullivan…
Cam remains a talent worth following, but The Otherside doesn’t make it clear where she’s going. Since releasing her well-regarded debut, Untamed, in 2015, Cam has…
Ho, Why Is You Here? is a flex-heavy, club-ready mixtape from a rapper of uncommon confidence, even for the hip hop world. Fresh to the…
The New Abnormal sees The Strokes return to a familiar sonic landscape with a newfound lyrical maturity, to somewhat mixed results. The New Abnormal is…
Brandon Banks is to Maxo Kream what Culture was to the Migos a few years back: a major step forward in terms of personal growth and artistry that signals…
Waylon Jennings may not have invented outlaw country, but with Honky Tonk Heroes he gave the movement its clearest distillation of purpose; its manifesto, its aesthetic framework, even…
Listening to Polo G is a deeply humbling experience — that’s something you can’t honestly say about a lot of young rappers’ music without having the…
There’s no denying the constant underlying groove in Goldlink’s Diaspora. He’s an artist indebted to dance music: just take “Zulu Screams,” whose intro sublimates the energy…
When they first announced their intentions to team-up nearly a decade ago, the concept of producer Madlib and rapper Freddie Gibbs collaborating seemed unorthodox: the great discoverer of…