Roy Christopher's dense book-length essay, Dead Precedents, takes much of what is now axiomatic about hip-hop and reminds us how revolutionary its innovations and practices really were.
Our 20 Questions feature sums up the quality that Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler only reveals once you get to talking with him: his dry, clipped humor.
On While We Wait, Kehlani rests her case on the ins and outs of modern love on her latest project with defiant candor, featuring some of the freshest sonic accouterments millennial R&B has to offer.
On Anima Mysterium, the first album from South African rapper Yugen Blakrok since her international high-profile feature on last year's Black Panther soundtrack, magic of the heaviest variety abounds.
Sleaford Mods' astonishing and deceptively subtle Eton Alive provides plenty of food for thought to counter the bread and circuses on offer during a time of political austerity.
The type of personality drawn in by a hyperviolent fantasy demolition derby headed up by a killer clown is likely very similar to that which most closely identifies with Juice WRLD's unfocused emotional ramblings.
Here we have two artists sticking closely to their strengths, Cardi B being supremely confident and hilariously vulgar while Bruno Mars sings a hook designed to get stuck in your head for days.
Why feed pigs cherries when they're happy with swill. On Lil Pump's sophomore album it's hard to find a single joke let alone to claim the joke is on us for daring to take it seriously.
MC Frontalot's perspective on Net Split as an internet elder statesman and old school nerd is valuable, especially as a person who has arrived at an anti-gatekeeping point of view.
Few rappers have been brave enough to try what Sayyid has been doing for years; his hip-hop suffers brutal and fantastic experiments of Asimov-proportions.
