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• Big L – Harlem’s Finest: Return Of The King | Review 31 October 2025
  Twenty-six years after his murder, Lamont “Big L” Coleman returns through Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King, a posthumous album released by Nas’ Mass Appeal label as part of the Legend Has It… series. The series has been one of the few major Hip Hop projects in 2025 to treat the genre’s past with care, […]
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• Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too | Review 28 October 2025
  Aesop Rock has been making complex, self-contained worlds out of words and beats for more than two decades. I Heard It’s a Mess There Too, his second album of 2025 and twelfth overall, arrives without warning—streamed for free on YouTube, available for download, and only later pressed to vinyl and cassette. It’s a very Aesop […]
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• Hit-Boy & The Alchemist – Goldfish | Review 24 October 2025
  Goldfish brings together two of Hip Hop’s most respected producers, Hit-Boy and The Alchemist, for an album that feels patient, deliberate, and fully confident in its craft. Both artists are producers first and rappers second, but on this record, they hold their own on the mic with surprising ease. The concept—each rapping over the other’s […]
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• Dave – The Boy Who Played The Harp | Review 24 October 2025
  Dave, born David Orobosa Omoregie in 1998 in Brixton, South London, grew up amid the city’s raw edges, where poverty and racial tensions shaped his early views. He taught himself piano at 14, a skill that now anchors his music. His lyrics draw from personal stories, touching on mental health, family strains, and systemic flaws […]
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• 2Pac “Brenda’s Got A Baby” (1991) 24 October 2025
  “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is the solo debut single by Tupac Shakur, and the tenth track from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a twelve-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it. The song explores the […]
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• Mobb Deep – Infinite | Review 10 October 2025
  When Havoc announced Infinite, the first full-length Mobb Deep album since 2014 and the first released after Prodigy’s death, the response mixed excitement with unease. The idea of new Mobb Deep music without both members in the studio felt risky. But Infinite—a 51-minute project built from unreleased Prodigy verses, new Havoc material, and production handled […]
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• The Pharcyde “Passin’ Me By” (1992) 4 October 2025
  “Passin’ Me By” is a song The Pharcyde, released in March 1993 through Delicious Vinyl Records. The song was the second single released from the group’s 1992 debut Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. The song, produced by J-Swift, utilizes samples from “Summer in the City” by Quincy Jones, “125th Street Congress” by Weather Report, and “Are […]
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• The Expert – Vivid Visions | Review 26 September 2025
  The Expert has built his reputation on an ear for psychedelic textures, surreal moods, and sharp attention to detail. With Vivid Visions, the Irish producer elevates those qualities into what is arguably his most ambitious work yet. Across 18 tracks and featuring a staggering lineup of 21 rappers, the album is one of the best […]
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• Atmosphere – Jestures | Review 20 September 2025
  Atmosphere’s Jestures is a record that takes a simple idea—an album built from A to Z—and stretches it into a layered meditation on age, family, friendship, and the stubborn persistence of creativity. Slug and Ant, the Minneapolis duo who’ve steered independent Hip Hop for nearly three decades under the Rhymesayers banner, use this framework to […]
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• Kool G Rap & DJ Polo “Streets Of New York” (1990) 20 September 2025
  “Streets of New York” is the first single from Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s second album Wanted: Dead or Alive. It was released as a single with “Poison” as a B-side and later also featured on the compilation albums Killer Kuts (1994), The Best of Cold Chillin’ (2000), Greatest Hits (2002), and Street Stories: The Best of Kool G Rap & DJ Polo (2013). Driven by the piano […]
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• Run DMC “Beats To The Rhyme” (1988) 31 August 2025
  “Beats To The Rhyme” is a track from Run DMC’s fourth studio album Tougher Than Leather. Tougher Than Leather was released on May 17, 1988. While the new record did not maintain the same popularity as its predecessor Raising Hell, it obtained platinum status and spawned the favorites “Run’s House” and “Mary, Mary” (built around a sample […]
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• Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele 2 | Review 22 August 2025
  Ghostface Killah’s reputation as one of the most consistent and imaginative MCs in Hip Hop was cemented decades ago, with his classic solo debut Ironman in 1996 and the masterpiece Supreme Clientele in 2000. Across other standout efforts like Fishscale (2006) and Twelve Reasons to Die (2013), and countless guest appearances, he has built a […]
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