Prodigy

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...

Westside Gunn (sort of) did too.

Three of this year's best rap albums have come from artists who make dusty, psychedelic, vintage-sounding rap, and who have turned this sound from a niche into a movement.

Today's picks for live videos to watch while you're home and every show is cancelled include Rush in 1980/81, The Wedding Present in 1989, Mobb Deep in '96, and more.

Listen to all the new rap and R&B we posted this week, including Megan Thee Stallion/Normani, Drake/Future, Denzel Curry, IDK, Tha God Fahim, Stormzy, Wiley, J Balvin, Mac Miller, Moneybagg Yo, and more.

Listen to new songs by Bill Fay, Caroline Rose, Georgia, Say Hi, Atom & His Package, Mura Masa, Your Old Droog, IDK, Knxwledge, Turnstile, and more.

The lineup is also set to include Mobb Deep (which Havoc has kept alive after Prodigy’s passing), Fat Joe, Tha Links, Dead Prez, Beatnuts, Pete Rock, and special guests.

Sherwin Banfield's ”A Cypher In Queens” installment will open at the Queens Public Library this month, and there's an opening ceremony with music by Jam Master Jay's son and spoken word from Phife Dawg's mother.

This week's Notable Releases include the second album of 2017 by rising West Coast rapper G Perico, Statik Selektah's latest guest-filled LP, Tee Grizzley & Lil Durk's collaborative mixtape, and more.

RSD Black Friday 2017 titles include the first-ever North American vinyl pressing of Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon,' a 40th anniversary edition of Richard Hell & The Voidoid's 'Blank Generation,' Tori Amos' hair metal band Y Kant Tori Read and more.