New York rapper Flee Lord released an album a month in 2020, and it resulted in so much good output that we included the whole series in our list of the best rap albums of the year. Our list went up before his final album of the year, In the Name of Prodigy, which just came out to...
The drummer and producer recently released an instrumental jazz album with Madlib, and his 2020 favorites include albums from Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist, Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Big Sean, Jyoti, and more.
Jay's list includes Jay Electronica, Boldy James, Freddie Gibbs, Griselda, Beyonce, Sault, Burna Boy, Jazmine Sullivan, Megan Thee Stallion, Roc Marciano, and more...
This week's playlist includes new music by Salaam Remi, Phoebe Bridgers, Anti-Flag, The Antlers, System Of A Down, Deftones, Django Django, Loyle Carter, KALI, Chilly Gonzales (ft. Feist & Jarvis Cocker), Tricky, Pa Salieu, Future & Lil Uzi Vert, Tribulation, Nubya Garcia (Makaya McCrav…
“We were Black before the election and we will be Black after the election,“ Salaam says of his powerful new album, which features a ”Strange Fruit” cover by the late Betty Wright, and themes of racial injustice and Black excellence over a backdrop of rap, soul, gospel, r…
Black Thought also did a 'Colors Show' live performance and talked about the rapper whose co-sign made him say ”My work is done here! Mission accomplished!”
As advertised, Busta Rhymes and Funk Flex were indeed out on the streets for Election Day, playing brief sets outside of polling places in Harlem and the Bronx as part of the "Joy to the Polls" voter campaign. That included outside a stop outside the Apollo Theatre...