#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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#Rap Blog: Rich Amiri finds his pocket

#Rap Blog: Rich Amiri finds his pocket

Listen to “THATS IT” off the Boston rapper’s new album War Ready. Rich Amiri. Photo by @rueguh   Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Though Rich Amiri is often dismissed as just another Future soundalike, the hate can feel a little forced. After all, when your breakout single gets as…

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#Rap Blog: RRoxket’s gentle fire

#Rap Blog: RRoxket’s gentle fire

Listen to “Backwards” off the Georgia rapper’s new mixtape RRoxket. Rroxket. Image via the “Ganger” music video   My favorite memory of a recent Ken Carson concert was hearing the entire concert hall sing along to “ganger” the casually viral breakout of Gwinnett County rapper RRoxket. That song’s half-mumbled flow, as if RRoxket is falling…

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