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Complex’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
As always, Complex's list is heaviest on rap and R&B, so it makes room for great rap albums that you might not see on the big multi-genre lists.
Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs
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Paid Dues fest is back with Lil Wayne, Ab-Soul, Raekwon & Ghostface, more
The LA rap festival, which is back from four years of hiatus, also includes Freddie Gibbs, PRhyme, Nipsey Hu$$le, Rapsody, P-Lo, The Cool Kids, and more.
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Roskilde Festival lineup + Arcade Fire European tour dates
The lineup for Danish music festival Roskilde Festival has been released, and features a lot of the big names to be seen at other festivals this summer...
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Freddie Gibbs going on ‘You Only Live 2wice’ tour (dates, LP stream)
Freddie Gibbs returned last week with his latest album, You Only Live 2wice. As always, his rhymes hearken back to an era of gansta rap that isn't really in style anymore, but Freddie makes it sound timeless..
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Roots Picnic NYC is this weekend, set times revealed
Saturday is the day The Roots headline with a collaborative set with D'Angelo and John Mayer. On Sunday they headline with a collaborative set with David Byrne, Nile Rodgers, and Wu-Tang Clan.
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Roots Picnic happening in NYC w/ David Byrne, D’Angelo, Wu-Tang Clan, Nile Rodgers & more
After nine years in Philly, The Roots are finally picnicking it in NYC.
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Freddie Gibbs releases “Money, Cash, Hoes,” announces tour
Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs is staying prolific, and just dropped a new song today. It's called "Money, Cash, Hoes" and pays some tribute to Jay Z and DMX's 1998 song of the same name, but it's not a remix or anything like his recent Kanye re-interpretat...
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Primavera 2016 lineup (Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Brian Wilson, Drive Like Jehu, Suede, more)
Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival returns from June 1-5, and as always, the lineup is pretty amazing. They've got Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets, Air, Brian Wilson (performing Pet Sounds), Beach House, Suede, Beirut, Animal Collective, Pusha T, Action Bronson, Explosions in the Sky, Moderat, John Carpenter, Vince Staples, Drive Like Jehu, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr, Richard Hawley, Kamasi Washington, Neon Indian, Battles, Ty Segall, Julia Holter, Destroyer, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Mudhoney, Boredoms, Royal Headache, Shellac, Dungen, Beach Slang, Venom, Unsane, The Chills, Holly Herndon, Psychic TV, Mbong...
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NPR’s Top 50 Albums of 2015
The year-end lists keep coming. Today, NPR Music published their 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 list. As usual, it's all over the map genre-wise, with classical, jazz, electronic, rap, mainstream pop, lo-fi DIY, indie rock, folk, country, metal an...
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upcoming rap shows & new music: Puff Daddy, Timbaland, KRS-One, Rakim, The Roots, Atmosphere & Aesop Rock, more
There's always a good amount of hip hop shows happening in and around NYC, but we don't get a chance to post about all of it. Here's a roundup of some cool stuff coming up that we haven't talked about yet, new music, and more:
Hot 97 is throwing a holiday show at Newark's Prudential Center on December 5 that's pretty stacked with both the old and the new: Busta Rhymes, Mar...