Few songs have captured a specific cultural moment as precisely as this one did. Released in the…
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There’s a version of hip-hop that refuses to let you be comfortable in your isolation. It reaches…
Loyalty is one of those words that gets thrown around in hip-hop until it loses all its…
Survival without sentimentality. That’s the operating principle behind one of the most quietly devastating cuts in Nas‘s…
Few rappers have ever used a food metaphor and made you feel implicated in something darker than…
Sometimes the boldest move an artist can make is to refuse to name something. The opening track…
Few rappers have ever been willing to look a word directly in the face, spell it out…
When media power gets used as a weapon against Black communities, somebody has to name it. On…
There’s a particular kind of fury that doesn’t announce itself as fury. It arrives dressed as a…