Jay Electronica

‘Donda‘ is finally out and features Jay-Z, the Weeknd, Pop Smoke, Pusha T, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi, Jay Electronica, The LOX, Young Thug, Lil Baby, and more.

Listen to new songs from Snoah Aalegra (ft. Tyler, The Creator), Post Malone, Dave (ft. Stormzy), Fredo Bang (ft. Polo G), Little Simz, Tinashe, IDK (ft. MF DOOM, Westside Gunn & Jay Electronica), and more

Listen to new songs by Little Simz, The Goon Sax, Homeboy Sandman, Los Lobos, Nation of Language and more.

The Barcelona festival has two different weekends (one that the organizers say ”we owe you” and one that ”we owe ourselves”), and there are also weekday shows and a Sunday brunch on the beach…

COVID vaccines or negative test results will be required to attend the 2021 edition of Pitchfork Fest, which also features Big Thief, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces, Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Ty Segall & Freedom Band, Waxahatchee, and more

Denzel Curry, Westside Gunn, DJ Premier, Phonte, JPEGMAFIA, Ty Dolla $ign, Roc Marciano, and many others have also paid tribute to the legendary rapper/producer…

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.

NYC record store Other Music may be gone but we’ve got year-end lists from 20 of their staff members.

”This year was clarifying in some ways. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels like a change is imminent. Look how many old acts are on my list. That’s not sustainable. We have to give a bit of a mulligan to young acts as they were likely afraid to release in a year they couldn’t tour…”

From Griselda to Freddie Gibbs to Megan Thee Stallion to Run The Jewels to Flo Milli to Pop Smoke to Armand Hammer to J Hus, there’s been so much great rap music this year. Here are our picks for the 50 best albums…