This friday finished a surprisingly strong week for new music, with new projects from Gucci Mane & Future, Nipsey Hussle, Owen Bones, Rapsody, and Trapo dropping over the past few days. Check out today’s new releases, which ranging from up-and-comers (Kevin Abstract & 6lack) to established greats (E-40 & Eminem). AKTHESAVIOR – Blessings in the Grey 2… Read More New Music Fridays: November 18th, 2016

More than Wayne, more than Thugga, Gucci Mane is known for a baffling amount of album releases. His Wikipedia page lists a stunning 81 projects released in an eleven year period, and several of those years were spent incarcerated. 2016 is proving to be no different from any other year for Guwop, as he just… Read More Gucci & Future Record and Release an Album in 24 Hours

The United States just shot itself in the foot with the presidential election, but here’s some of the week’s best new music to take your mind off things. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service I’m going to be writing a lot more about this shortly, but this… Read More New Music Fridays: November 11th, 2016

The internet may have found evidence that a new Childish Gambino album is dropping on December 2nd. Early this morning, a new album under Donald Glover’s rap alias Childish Gambino titled Awaken, My Love! was discovered as an upcoming album on AllMusic. Further internet sleuthing discovered a sign at an FYE, an American media store, which listed Awaken, My Love! as… Read More There Might Be A New Childish Gambino Album Coming This Year

It’s that time of the week: New Music Friday’s, featuring today’s most notable releases: Alicia Keys – Here For her sixth studio album, Alicia Keys stripped the production for a far more minimalist, piano and guitar sound that allows her amazing voice to shine through. A$AP Rocky is the sole feature (on standout single “Blended Family (What You… Read More New Music Fridays: November 4th, 2016

With my weekly New Music Fridays column, I’m able to celebrate the release of full music projects, but this doesn’t give a lot of room to celebrate all the incredible music that gets released before, after, or inbetween full albums. On Singles of the Month, I’ll take a bit of time every thirty days or so… Read More Singles of the Month: October 2016

You know the picture. The Instagram post from this April that had the entire rap internet freaking out, the one that promised the hip hop equivalent of a unicorn: “the new Andre 3000 album”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Rock (@chrisrock) This always seemed like a strange group of people… Read More ATCQ’s New Album Tracklist Might Explain That One Chris Rock Picture

Harlem rapper Charles Hamilton took to Twitter last night to announce that his major label debut album, Hamilton, Charles, was finally dropping this December. https://twitter.com/charleshamilton/status/792153231342329856 Charles Hamilton has 181 mixtapes under his belt, according to Wikipedia, but with an music output rivaled only by Viper, there are probably plenty more that went undocumented; all this without a… Read More After Almost 200 Mixtapes, Charles Hamilton Is Finally Dropping His Major Label Debut

Today was a good day for everything from OG Atlanta trap to modern Chicago neo-soul. Check out some of the week’s best project below: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie – TBA Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (not to be confused with Boogie, a Compton rapper who’s also on the come-up) had a massive hit in “My… Read More New Music Fridays: October 27th, 2016

When Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor passed away in March, hip hop (and the world) lost a musical visionary. As a part of A Tribe Called Quest with Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, Phife Dawg was part of a movement that would change hip hop for generations. Tribe broke up after releasing The Love Movement in 1998,… Read More A Tribe Called Quest Announce Their Final Album