Dylan Green

Chuck Strangers ’s second studio album, A Forsaken Lover’s Plea, opens with a monologue from Richard Pryor’s Live on The Sunset Strip special about Black men experiencing heartbreak. “That is your diploma,” the late comedian says with an exaggerated strain. “The kind of heartbreak…[where] you can’t even listen to music.” Though Pryor’s focus is solely romantic, Strangers’s music, from 2018’s Consumers Park to 2023’s The Boys & Girls Club EP

The TDE rapper’s sixth album is a daring feat that finds the sweet spot between comfort and anguish. It’s the rawest and most adventurous music of his career.

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From the time she was 16, Bktherula has claimed to exist at what she calls Level 5. The North Carolina rapper told The Face she gave a name to

As early as their self-titled 2009 EP, and plenty times since Shabazz Palaces ' songs have orbited the voice of Ishmael Butler, a smooth, droning instrument in a sea of organic and digital rhythms.

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K.Dot’s spicy verse—and its surrounding song—is from Future and Metro’s first-ever collaborative album, We Don’t Trust You.

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Gangrene are here to crack brains like they were blown speakers. So says Oh No near the top of his fourth collaborative album with The Alchemist Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.