#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

skaiwater’s #gigi, Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, and DJ Anderson do Paraíso’s Queridão couldn’t be more different, but each flaunts convention in its own way. Design by Cady Siregar.   Every project on our 50 Best Albums of 2024 list strained against one social more or another, from Charli XCX’s unapologetically hyper-charged late-millennial pop, with its…

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#Report: Lil Wayne, Chris Brown received millions from COVID relief fund meant for struggling venues

#Report: Lil Wayne, Chris Brown received millions from COVID relief fund meant for struggling venues

Artists from Marshmello to Rae Sremmurd dipped into the $200 million Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, according to a Business Insider report. Lil Wayne. Photo by Bennett Weglin/Getty Images   Successful musicians and professionals from across the industry received grants from a COVID-era program meant to help struggling venues pay their bills during the pandemic, a…

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#The 50 best albums of 2024

#The 50 best albums of 2024

The 50 best albums of 2024 From Brat to Bird’s Eye and Cold Visions to Queridão, these are the albums we couldn’t ignore this year. By Alex Robert Ross, Cady Siregar, Jordan Darville, Raphael Helfand, Steffanee Wang, Wale Oloworekende, Shaad D’Souza, Lucas Villa, Colin Joyce, Emma Madden, Vivian Medithi, David Renshaw, Walden Green Every album…

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#slowthai found not guilty of rape

#slowthai found not guilty of rape

The London rapper and co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker were charged with assaulting two women after a performance in September 2021. slowthai. Photo by Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images   slowthai, the 29-year-old English rapper born Tyron Frampton has been found not guilty of three counts of rape, the BBC reports. He and his co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker…

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#Rap Blog: Take a smoke break with mynameisntjmack

#Rap Blog: Take a smoke break with mynameisntjmack

Listen to the Virginian rapper’s new single “american spirit.” Ian Anthony Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Mynameisntjmack’s (almost) eponymous May debut, mynameisnt, was like eavesdropping on live-jazz therapy sessions about fame with Blu and Mick Jenkins, but the rapper seems to have grown less concerned with that journey on…

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#In 2024, Plaqueboymax became hip-hop’s must-watch streamer

#In 2024, Plaqueboymax became hip-hop’s must-watch streamer

The Twitch streamer’s Song Wars and In The Booth series courted rap’s up-and-coming elite including wolfacejoeyy, Nino Paid, and more. Twitch/Plaqueboymax We’ll remember 2024 as the year of clipfarming, 12 months when everyone clamored a little too desperately to go viral on livestreams. This is especially, or even disproportionately, true for rappers. Historically forward-thinking when…

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