I’m pretty sure that years in the music world work like dog years. You disappear for twelve months and everything seems to have changed. It’s a given then that five years is an eternity. Rewind back to 2015 and Fetty…
Album Review: Moses Sumney creates a genre-hopping masterpiece with “Grae”
There’s a lot of fucking music to listen to. It can be paralyzing when you really sit back and think about it, all of the albums you will never hear, the moments of discovery that will never happen ever. It’s…
Album Review: dvsn – “A Muse In Her Feelings”
About a week ago, I saw that there was a Genius lyric breakdown for dvsn’s new single with Snoh Aalegra, “Between Us.” Even though I’ve known about dvsn for several years now, it took me a couple of moments after…
We’re All Stuck Inside On The 5th Anniversary Of “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside”
I don’t know where you’re reading this at, but I know what you’re reading this in. I know because I’m in it as well. This feeling. This stillness, this increasing dissociation after each new headline, this frustration towards everything. It…
Royce Da 5’9″ “The Allegory” Review
Royce Da 5’9” punctuates the intro of his new album The Allegory with a reference to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In it, Plato tells of a philosopher, who after escaping imprisonment inside a cave filled with shadows, tries to…
Roddy Ricch and The Establishment
Establishment: a group in a society exercising power and influence over matters of policy or taste, and seen as resisting change. Hip-hop has always centered around the establishment: sneaking around it, toppling it, camouflaging yourself inside it. As the genre…
From the Record Crate: Lil B – “6 Kiss” (2009)
In today’s turbulent times, it’s difficult to maintain a sense of stability, to find anything that’s not deteriorating or on the verge of complete failure. He may not be what we hoped for, but Lil B falls under this category.…
