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A year after the release of Detroit resident Danny Brown’s fifth studio album, “uknowhatimsayin¿” the time has come to revisit a true master closing the loop on his hall of fame career.
In such an unforgivingly mediocre year of rap, two kings hold us close as we desperately try to avoid listening to Griselda say absolutely nothing for hundreds of minutes — Bad Bunny and Lil Baby.
To this day, almost a year after the video was released, people still comment multiple times per hour.
A recurring debate in rap is “How sexual is too vulgar for rap?” Within that question lies the much more inflammatory debate: “How sexual is too vulgar for women in rap?”
The time is right to reflect on the largely ignored conflict in Memphis, T.N. between Young Dolph and Yo Gotti, perhaps the most bizarre footnote in the genre of the past decade.
As counter-cultural and independent as rap claims to be, it is still a hierarchical institution.
After announcing and promptly disregarding multiple release dates, Lil Uzi Vert finally released his sophomore album “Eternal Atake.”
Due to drill’s barely defined scope, calling it a genre or even a subgenre is dangerous.
Now that rap has overtaken rock as the most profitable genre, it is reasonable to view hip-hop as its own economy.
In his brief career, Jahsen Onfroy, or XXXTentacion, quickly became a source of immense controversy.