Album of the week: Smino – She Already Decided Some rappers incorporate different flows in their music with an unflappable ease. Smino invents them. The St. Louis native’s new mixtape She Already Decided is a zig-zag hosh-posh of vocal exercising.…
The Hip Hop Roundup: Lor Choc, Kid Cudi, ALLBLACK and More
Project of the week: Lor Choc – Still Worth It Baltimore’s Lor Choc follows a long lineage of auto-tune blues crooners who sing about persevering through genuine hardship over guitar-laden trap passages. The landscape has become so saturated with this…
Hip Hop Roundup: Bomethius, Polo G, Jean Deax, and More
Album of the week: Bomethius – Inadiquit https://bomethius.bandcamp.com/album/inadiquit I’m breaking the rules this week to highlight one of my favorite albums anyone has sent me this year. Jonathan Hodges is a multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who just released a nine-song…
The Hip Hop Roundup: The Best Projects from March
Not going to lie, March sucked for a myriad of reasons. From an objective standpoint, the world began it’s descent into the abyss thanks to a catastrophic virus that continues to wreak havoc daily (I still blame climate change and…
The Hip Hop Roundup – Week of March 30: KeiyaA, Connis, AZ Chike and more
Album of the week: KeiyaA – Forever Ya Girl KeiyaA is an up-and-coming R&B soul artist from New York City who just released her official debut album Forever Ya Girl on all streaming services. It’s a gorgeous quest for individual…
Hip Hop Roundup March 22: Sada Baby, Mac Hefner, Quelle Chris and more
Album of the week: Sada Baby – Skuba Sada 2 It would seem that in a world where social distancing is becoming more and more prevalent by the day, a “jerk” challenge would spark from various TikTok accounts. This eccentric…
The Hip Hop Roundup: Chief Keef, Ill Addicts, Don Tolliver and more
Album of the week: Ill Addicts – Malfunction Boston’s Ill Addicts may have just released the perfect cataclysmic album for our apocalyptic world setting. Compared to their jovial approach in the past (“Cake,” “Ahora”), Malfunction illustrates a group that’s more…