Review of LYFESTYLEby Yeat (listen)

The enigma born Noah Olivier Smith—better known as Yeat, to use the word “known” loosely—broke through in 2021 as a maverick of rage-rap. These days, the 24-year-old exists in his own orbit entirely, recording and engineering his own songs that are possibly informed by extraterrestrial wisdom and rife with bizarro ad-lib soundscapes, dystopian-sounding beats, and non sequiturs that could either

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Review of GLORIOUS by GloRilla (listen)

GLORIOUS - GloRilla

The scrappy Memphis rapper has been on a two-year victory lap since her 2022 breakthrough hit “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” established her as one of rap’s most promising new voices. Since then, GloRilla’s dropped an EP (2022’s Anyways, Life’s Great…) and her first studio mixtape (2024’s Ehhthang Ehhthang), scored a Grammy nomination, and sold out arenas alongside Megan Thee Stallion for

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Check out ‘Hip-Hop Throwback’ Playlist via Apple Music

Check out 'Hip-Hop Throwback' Playlist via Apple Music

Check out ‘Hip-Hop Throwback’ Playlist via Apple Music The grit and lyricism that shaped rap in the ’80s and ’90s sounds as exciting now as it did then—arguably even more so when you consider how crossover-friendly rap has become. Here’s a playlist of tracks that capture the essence of rap after it evolved past the simplicity of its early to-the-beat-y’all

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Murda Beatz: The Producers Playlist by Apple Music (listen)

Murda Beatz: The Producers Playlist by Apple Music (listen)

Murda Beatz: The Producers Playlist by Apple Music (listen) The Ontario-born Shane Lee Lindstrom emerged as one of hip-hop’s most in-demand beatmakers in the late 2010s, lending his tropical-trap touch to A-list MCs like Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and Migos. But his crowning achievement of the era was his production for frequent client Drake on the 2018 chart-topping smash “Nice

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Sing Hip hop Apple Music Playlist: A mix of hip-hop’s most Sing-worthy tracks

Sing Hip hop Apple Music Playlist: A mix of hip-hop’s most Sing-worthy tracks

Sing Hip hop Apple Music Playlist: A mix of hip-hop’s most Sing-worthy tracks A mix of hip-hop’s most Sing-worthy tracks. Sing is available to Apple Music subscribers using the latest version of Apple Music on the latest iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices. Apple Music Sing is supported on iPhone 11 and later or iPhone SE (3rd generation) using iOS

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Rapper Rich Homie Quan Has Died at 34

Seamlessly incorporating poignant melodies into trap music before it became ubiquitous in the ‘10s, the Atlanta rapper is as much at home on turnt-up party anthems as he is with emotional street ballads. It’s impossible not to dance to his bouncy, triumphant 2015 single “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” and his pathos-drenched croon is the perfect foil to Young Thug’s wild

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