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Penny Raps is the first project from rapper Ric Wilson. The Chicago rapper enlisted OnGuad, Talib Kweli, Malcolm London, Jamila Woods, GLC and others for his debut album. Listen to it here.   Photo: Penny Raps/Ric Wilson   

By Sam Fleming   Kendrick Lamar, ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’: The Compton MC, Kendrick Lamar has taken over mainstream rap in the past few years with two albums that have been dubbed instant classics and a mixtape. He has established himself as one of the most lyrical and versatile MCs in modern rap, as well […]

Lauryn Hill’s debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, has been deemed a national treasure by the Library of Congress. Relive your ’90s childhood and listen to the album in full below:  Photo: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album cover

This new mix from DJ Run P. has every sample Kendrick Lamar used on his latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly. Listen below: Photo: Top Dawg Entertainment 

By Arielle Newton   Kendrick Lamar is my favorite New School rapper. His lyrical prowess alongside his masterful production, is an honorable change to the predictable pop-tainted “bars” that defines mainstream hip hop today. But recently, the man who I thought to be a creative revolutionary, is causing me Black feminist angst. There was the sidestep […]

By Arielle Newton On a track with Juicy J called “For Everybody,” Wiz Khalifa, the estranged husband of businesswoman Amber Rose, rapped about how he “fell in love with a stripper” but “fell out of love quicker.” He opines that hoes don’t “pay attention to love anyway,” because they’re “only concerned with what the haters say” and need Instagram and reality TV to decipher their […]

From The Root: Last week Drake pulled a Beyoncé and released new music without any promotion. Although the album didn’t chart as well as Beyoncé’s, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late (yes, he did not use apostrophes) was still a hit among Drake’s die-hard fans. Including Richy Huck, who decided to permanently show how much of […]

By Keevin Brown Kanye West’s playful almost interruption of Beck at the Grammy’s was an homage to his actual 2009 Grammy award interruption of Country artist Taylor Swift. The irony of the situation was meant to instill humor and to some level, show a sense of growth and maturity. We as Americans supposedly live in […]

Watch this video of an earnest Kanye West before the drop of his debut album, ‘College Dropout’. h/t Uproxx

By Aziza Barnes On my phone in a group text, November 2014. I’m in a 3 way conversation with my homegirls post Darren Wilson non-indictment/Daniel Pantaleo’s non-indictment/ post we-lost-track-of- the- names- the murderers- and- how- much- they- get- paid. We’re numb, the way people get during war time to make it through the day. We’ve […]

By Erika Dickerson While we were waist-deep in circular (yet necessary) conversations about Iggy Azalea’s Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album, her “blaccent,” and appropriation of Black music and culture at-large, the Grammy Awards were undermining Blk women in another way: the “tribute” performance for Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Let’s quickly recap the shameful dismissal that has […]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award winning Nigerian author, has been nominated for a Grammy. The award nod comes from her credit on the song “Flawless” on Beyoncé’s self-titled album. The song contains a sample of Adichie’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ TEDxEuston speech. Watch Beyoncé discuss Adichie’s influence on the making of “Flawless” below: h/t OkayAfrica    Photo: Chimamanda Ngozi […]