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Ako sa z Drakea stal Netflix hip-hopu

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By Peter A. Berry Verified, Peter Berry
| Denník SME Verified
Keď Drake v jeden deň vydal tri nové albumy - Iceman, Maid of Honour a Habibti, niektorí kritici tvrdili, že ide o zúfalý pokus zvýšiť svoj význam a podporiť počty streamov či predaj albumov. Pre náročnejších fanúšikov, ktorí túžili po pätnásťskladbovom albume bez jedinej skladby, ktorú by bolo treba preskakovať, to bol len prejav nenásytného preháňania.
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Commentary: Lupita Nyong’o can’t play Helen of Troy? That’s odd

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By Peter Berry
| The Daily Gazette Verified
Elon Musk, steadfast guardian of all things truthful and scientific, has once again criticized director Christopher Nolan. Months after saying Nolan had “lost his integrity” following speculation that the director selected Black actress Lupita Nyong’o to play Helen of Troy in his forthcoming epic, "The Odyssey," Musk returned to the subject on X.
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Commentary: Billboard’s AI music problem is obvious — so is the fix

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By Peter Berry
| Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) Verified
For strict institutional gatekeepers, Billboard has been quite lax about allowing fake artists on its charts. By November, several AI performers were featured, including country music’s Breaking Rust and R&B’s Xania Monet. It’s the kind of casual absurdity that AI music startups like Suno are hoping will become, well, casual. kAm“%96 E649?@=@8J 7:?2==J 2==@HD 7@C 3:==:@?D @7 A6@A=6 E@ 36 4C62E:G6[ E@ 92G6 E96 7CF:ED @7 E96:C =23@C[ E@ 766= 7F=7:==>6?E :?
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Drake’s ‘Iceman’ Is Exactly the Fun and Vindictive Comeback Record He Needed: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
Toward the beginning of his new song “Janice STFU,” Drake conducts one of his customary exercises in emo theater: “You say what my work means to me will one day be the death of me / They tried to kill me once, but, darling, you just resurrected me.” It feels melodramatic, but this time, it’s fair enough.
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Billboard’s AI music problem is obvious — so is the fix

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By Peter Berry
| The Eagle-Tribune Verified
For strict institutional gatekeepers, Billboard has been quite lax about allowing fake artists on its charts. By November, several AI performers were featured, including country music’s Breaking Rust and R&B’s Xania Monet. It’s the kind of casual absurdity that AI music startups like Suno are hoping will become, well, casual.
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Every Drake Album, Ranked From Worst to Best

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By Peter Berry, Ian Stonebrook Verified, John Kennedy
| Okayplayer Verified
Today, ahead of his Iceman album. Okayplayer ranks Drake’s projects from absolute worst to best. As Drake says himself, they love to tell stories ’bout the man. So it’s a good thing that no one tells that tale better than the 6ix God himself. Since emerging with So Far Gone 17 years ago, Drizzy has used Bridget Jones' introspection, Simone Biles' agility and Stephen Curry's range to dominate the music industry like prime LeBron James.
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Commentary: Billboard's AI music problem is obvious - so is the fix

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By Peter Berry
| Miami Herald Verified
For strict institutional gatekeepers, Billboard has been quite lax about allowing fake artists on its charts. By November, several AI performers were featured, including country music's Breaking Rust and R&B's Xania Monet. It's the kind of casual absurdity that AI music startups like Suno are hoping will become, well, casual.
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Rate It Or Love It

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By Peter Berry
| Substack
Credit: XXL via YouTube Before writing this introductory article, I had a little housekeeping matter to consider: Do I or don’t I delete my now two-point-something-year-old “Coming Soon” post. If you made it here in the first place, you’ll see it conspicuously nestled below this piece and the first Rate It Or Love It. It was uploaded all the way back on Jan. 23, 2024. On one hand, it’s kind of embarrassing that it took me so long to get an actual post up.
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Monica Is Jack Harlow’s Identity Crisis. It’s Also His Best Album.

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
About eight years ago, Jack Harlow trolled the fuck out of me. Or, at least, it felt like he did. Visiting XXL’s midtown Manhattan office for a video freestyle, pre-glow-up Jack — glasses, unwieldy curly hair and all — sat down in our video room with his publicist for a listening session. The point was obviously for him to play me his music so I could get a sense of where he was headed artistically. So then, I was a little … bewildered when he began playing Frank Ocean instead.
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With F.I.G , Naomi Scott Is Finally Her Own Director

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
Midway through our February afternoon chat, Naomi Scott asks the sort of question that, frankly, should be unaskable: "What is she, where do we place her?" She's referring to herself, but she's speaking from the perspective of composite audiences and Hollywood execs trying to classify a half-Indian, half-white actress playing American roles.
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Review: Baby Keem's New Album Ca$ino Continues to Push Boundaries

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By Peter Berry
| Pigeons & Planes Verified
Pigeons & Planes is all about music discovery, supporting new artists, and delivering the best music curation online and IRL. We're always listening. Pigeons & Planes is all about music discovery, supporting new artists, and delivering the best music curation online and IRL. We're always listening. Pigeons & Planes is all about music discovery, supporting new artists, and delivering the best music curation online and IRL. We're always listening.
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'The Fall-Off' And How J. Cole Became Rap's Bradley Cooper

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
In the cruel eternity of the internet, no one gets a consolation prize for taking an L on national TV. Not even bright-eyed Bradley Cooper. After spending six years practicing one particular conductor symphony scene and donning an abominable prosthetic mask for the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, Cooper found himself on the losing end of the Oscar race for Best Actor and a series of jokes labeling an awards season clout-chaser. We can't know for sure, but there's a chance J.
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A$AP Rocky steps back into the arena, all the wiser, on the ambitious 'Don't Be Dumb': Album review

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By Peter Berry
| MSN Verified
It's hard to make being Rihanna's rich, handsome boyfriend sound lame, but Drake managed to do just that on "Family Matters." Taking a moment to turn his focus from Kendrick Lamar to ASAP Rocky, the Toronto rapper accused the Harlem native of being relevant for his fashion sense instead of his mic skills: "Probably gotta have a kid again fore you think of droppin' any s**t again / Even when you do drop, they gon' say you should've modeled 'cause it's mid again." It's reductive, but fair.
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How Hurricane Wisdom Turned Hard Times Into Hit Records Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Show & Prove: Hurricane Wisdom Words: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Hurricane Wisdom’s name sounds like the result of some deep spiritual introspection or maybe a moniker for a shady fortune teller. But, like the best rap names, its inspiration is decidedly functional; a nod to a hairstyle he had as a teen. “I had waves in high school,” he explains on a humid August day via Zoom.
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Singer Isaiah Falls Talks Kendrick Lamar and Kodak Black Influencing His Music and Nipsey Hussle Being One of the Greatest of All Time Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Let Em Know: Isaiah Falls Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Since the release of his debut EP, The Private Room, in 2023, singer Isaiah Falls has established himself as a master of sultry, nocturnal R&B, making his music perfect for the bedroom or late-night drives to after parties.
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Chance The Rapper Reclaims His Narrative Without the Revenge Tour - 'I Made A Lot of People Who Loved Me Happy' Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
If Chance The Rapper is experiencing a career redemption arc, it’s unclear whether he recognizes it. On August 15, the release date of his sophomore album, Star Line, he joins a Zoom call from his hometown of Chicago. This album marks his first major release since his 2019 debut LP, The Big Day, which did not perform well, commercially. As a result, there is a lot at stake for him.
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For Better And Sometimes Worse, Dave's New Album Takes You To Church

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
If Dave were a lazy self-mythologizer instead of a meticulous craftsman, he could’ve just called his new album Confession. Over the course of the 48-minute LP — which is actually titled The Boy Who Played The Harp — the 27-year-old Londoner turns stanzas into tense self-interrogations, exploring themes of regret and personal evolution with the unsparing clarity of a wise but mercifully unpretentious clergyman.
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Lebron James Has a Sciatica Injury - Here’s What it Feels Like Original

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Sports Verified
Usually, LeBron James is spending late October defying Father Time. Instead, he’s appearing in tasteless Hennessy ads and sitting stiff as a mannequin on the Lakers bench. The King is suffering from sciatica, a nerve condition that causes pain and numbness to run through your back and to your leg. Subtle, yet intermittently debilitating, it’s the type of injury anyone can get. Especially if you’re older. ​​It’s not as much about what you feel, as much as what you don’t. At least, at first.
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New Album 'Boiling Point,' Cash Money Reunion Tour, & More

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
Anytime you can be a benchmark for celebrity fitness is probably pretty cool. Or, at least I thought. Standing on the sidewalk about 70 feet away from SiriusXM’s Manhattan offices, Juvenile’s just told me he needs to get his ass back in the gym, motioning to his stomach before pointing to my own gut to make his point. “I’m getting a ‘you.'” Of course, l’m really handsome and amazing, so I laugh it off and don’t silently commit to walking two miles home today. It’s no big deal.
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R&B's Breakout Star Sailorr Explores Her Rap Fandom and Creates the Ultimate Rapper With Veeze in Mind Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Sailorr As an emerging alt-R&B star with meaningful creative roots in hip-hop, Sailorr is starting to bubble. Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Sailorr may be a rising queen of alt-R&B, but she’s certified rap head as much as anything else.
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Tech N9ne Reflects on the House That Made Him, Storytelling and Not Giving a Damn About What People Think

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Tech N9ne More than 30 years in the game, Tech N9ne reflects on his new album, 5816 Forest, and his illustrious career. Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. The album is called 5816 Forest. 5816 Forest is the address where I lived where my mom married a Muslim named Abul Hassan Khalifah. He moved us to 5816 Forest when I was 12.
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TØNY: Breaking open with Overdrive and interview

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By Peter Berry
| Rolling Stone UK Verified
“I’ve always joked I felt like a flamingo in a flock of zebras and sometimes I still do.” The Austrian pop queen in-waiting, TØNY states as she dives into her artistic manifesto behind her upcoming album, Chronically Misunderstood due next year. Read next G-Star unveils Anatomic Denim with Jordan Hemingway London charity Artbox to celebrate its work at new annual exhibition She kickstarts this journey with her most recent release Overdrive.
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Molly Santana Breaks Down Five Career-Defining Songs That Shaped Her Sound Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Molly Santana Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. In an industry searching for new superstars, Molly Santana’s pushing her way into the spotlight. A chief manufacturer for zoomer slaps, the Los Angeles- based rapper swirls staccato flows and braggadocio into a perfectly modern combination of celestial rage raps and ethereal melodies.
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Clipse Become First Rappers to Perform at the Vatican

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By Peter Berry
| Okayplayer Verified
Two months after dropping their acclaimed latest album, Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse continue their winning streak. On Saturday, the duo became the first rap act to ever perform at the Vatican. Taking the St. Peter's Square stage for the Pharrell Williams co-directed Grace for the World concert, the two performed the album opener, "Birds Don't Sing." With John Legend at their side to sing the hook, the song's regal combination of grace and spiritual power rang through in 5k.
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Young Thug, Gunna, Snitching, and The Fragile Myth of the Real N***a

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By Peter Berry
| LEVEL Verified
Young Thug was on of the realest certified street n****s hip-hop. Then somebody called him a snitch. The thing about being a gangster is that nobody is ever gangster enough - at least in the eyes of other gangsters. Or white kids who watched too many VladTV interviews about gangsters being gangsters. Young Thug got a proper education after getting accused of being a snitch last week. The snitch-shame fest began after a video of Thugger allegedly dry snitching on a friend hit the web.
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Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap The Glass’ Trades Introspection for a Low-Stakes, Seriously Fun Dance Party: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Generate Key Takeaways Tyler, the Creator isn’t exactly a “spell it out” kind of guy, but he made an exception for his new song “Big Poe.” On Monday morning, after years of indulging in blonde bob wigs and cockroach-eating cryptics, the 34-year-old used the track’s opening words to issue an unambiguous command to fans and critics who are surely waiting to dissect his latest mosaic: “No sitting still… dance, bro.” It’s a mandate that’s easy to follow with “Don’t Tap the Glass,” a meticulous...
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Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap The Glass’ Trades Introspection for a Low-Stakes, Seriously Fun Dance Party: Album Review Original

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By Peter Berry
| Variety Verified
Tyler, the Creator isn’t exactly a “spell it out” kind of guy, but he made an exception for his new song “Big Poe.” On Monday morning, after years of indulging in blonde bob wigs and cockroach-eating cryptics, the 34-year-old used the track’s opening words to issue an unambiguous command to fans and critics who are surely waiting to dissect his latest mosaic: “No sitting still… dance, bro.” It’s a mandate that’s easy to follow with “Don’t Tap the Glass,” a meticulous yet deliberately...
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Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap The Glass’ Trades Introspection for a Low-Stakes, Seriously Fun Dance Party: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Aol Verified
Tyler, the Creator isn’t exactly a “spell it out” kind of guy, but he made an exception for his new song “Big Poe.” On Monday morning, after years of indulging in blonde bob wigs and cockroach-eating cryptics, the 34-year-old used the track’s opening words to issue an unambiguous command to fans and critics who are surely waiting to dissect his latest mosaic: “No sitting still… dance, bro.” It’s a mandate that’s easy to follow with “Don’t Tap the Glass,” a meticulous yet deliberately...
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Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap The Glass’ Trades Introspection for a Low-Stakes, Seriously Fun Dance Party: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Canada Verified
Tyler, the Creator isn’t exactly a “spell it out” kind of guy, but he made an exception for his new song “Big Poe.” On Monday morning, after years of indulging in blonde bob wigs and cockroach-eating cryptics, the 34-year-old used the track’s opening words to issue an unambiguous command to fans and critics who are surely waiting to dissect his latest mosaic: “No sitting still… dance, bro.” It’s a mandate that’s easy to follow with “Don’t Tap the Glass,” a meticulous yet deliberately...
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Watch Clipse's 'Tiny Desk' Performance

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By Peter Berry
| Okayplayer Verified
Rap nerds rejoice: Clipse's NPR Tiny Desk performance is officially here. Hours after their latest album, Let God Sort Em Out, hit streaming services, the duo's lively NPR appearance began streaming on YouTube. Beginning with a performance of "I'm From Virginia," it's off to a pretty solid start, with both Push and Malice serving up showcase for stage presence and tonal control. It's a sign of rappers who, senior as they may be, remain near the peak of their powers.
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Clipse’s ‘Let God Sort Em Out’ Is Stylish, Intense and Sanctimonious: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
In the pantheon of prestige rap, it never gets fancier than a Clipse reunion. While Pusha T and Malice predated the whole “play this street rapper at New York Fashion Week” motif, their stylishly spare soundscapes and high-brow dexterity made them couture rap before couture rap. They could spit like a sleeker Little Brother, but there’s a nihilistic thrill in the idea that they might sell coke to your little brother, too.
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Larry June Breaks Down the Business of Being Yourself, Becoming a Lifestyle Rap Icon and Thinking Like a Hustler Original

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By Peter Berry
| XXL (Magazine) Verified
Game for Sale For 15 years, Larry June has done the slow-and-steady race to achieve hip-hop success on his terms. The West Coast rapper is a best-case scenario for the independent rap hustle. Interview: Peter A. Berry Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. Larry June isn’t a life coach, but he sounds like one.
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Renowned Culture Writers Launch Fundraiser to Support Journalists in Palestine

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By Peter Berry
| LEVEL Verified
This Thursday, a group of renowned culture writers will host a special fundraiser party to support journalists in Palestine "Everything I do is journalism," Arielle Lana Lejarde tells me on a Friday afternoon Zoom call. It's a methodology as much as a philosophical outlook. When she's not at her day job managing a newsletter, she's a culture writer with bylines in places like Rolling Stone and Brooklyn Magazine.
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Slick Rick’s 'Victory' Is A Worthwhile Adventure — Even With Some Lame Detours

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
In case you somehow didn’t remember or didn’t read up, here’s some CliffsNotes: Slick Rick is that nigga. Always has been. In the off chance you did forget, he uses his new track “I Did That” to serve up a heavy-handed but sincere reminder. Flaunting all the imaginative flair of his own Wikipedia page, Rick uses the throwaway interlude to list his accomplishments in a series of undeniable one-note summations: “Icon fashionista. Storyteller.
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4 Artists on Track to Bless Your Playlists

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By Peter Berry
| LEVEL Verified
Life's too short for bad music There's always an influx of new artists giving music enthusiasts new streaming opportunities. While many fall into obscurity a talented few become playlist mainstays. , Marco Plus, Farrah Fawx, and Girlfriend are four artists gaining traction and building audiences through high-quality soundscapes. In their own unique way, they're creating a deafening buzz in crowded spaces.
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Zukenee's 'Slaytanic' Is Nostalgic Trap Bliss With A Twist

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
For all his vaguely quirky medieval imagery, Zukenee’s music is grounded in the more recent past. Hailing from Atlanta, the rapper who calls himself a Slayer — an alias and aesthetic that probably triples as a lifestyle or even quadruples as a philosophy — would’ve been either an idea or a mischievous lil’ squirt when I heard Trap Muzik, Trap House, or Trap Or Die for the first time.
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Can You Really Call It Chaos When It's So Mundane?

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
skip to main content (In the most decisive, unironic voice possible): It takes a certain level of intelligence to understand Playboi Carti. To me — ahem, a seasoned music critic you should never doubt because I’m always right — his talent’s always been as clear as his flawless skin.
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'From The Private Collection Of Saba & No ID' Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
If you ask any rapper, basically ever, they’re underrated. No one gave them their props for inventing that style everybody uses. They paved the way for your favorite rapper to do that shit they do now, and also, they’re your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper. And they’ve got the biggest dick, which really isn’t talked about enough.
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By Peter Berry
| LEVEL Verified
Charlie Bereal songs are embedded with all the aesthetic and thematic cues of a bygone era. But his descriptions of church Sundays conjure an otherworldly timeliness - at once of the recent past and today. For those humid Pasadena afternoons, Charlie remembers cruising in a baby blue 1974 Cadillac with his father Buddy, a uniquely Black renaissance man who found time to be a preacher, boxer and president of the NAACP's Pasadena chapter.
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By Peter Berry
| LEVEL Verified
The new documentary takes a multi-layered look at the dimensions of Black manhood and how it came to be The idea of Black manhood is at once complex and reductive, and through his latest film, When We Free The World, renowned journalist-author Kevin Powell explores the concept in all of its multitude.
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The Prayers Of DMX: An Exploration Of The Gospel Of Earl Simmons

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By Peter Berry
| uDiscoverMusic
Cover: Courtesy of UMG Recordings You can’t understand the fire and brimstone of DMX’s most famous songs unless you also take into account his moments of quiet grace. On each of his first six albums, DMX released prayers that were as lucid as they were jarring – diametric opposites to the bullet-riddled euphoria elsewhere. Abandoning his typically pummelling instrumentals, DMX would wade into the eternity of the microphone with a naked vulnerability, pleading to the sky for guidance.
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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Is a Meticulous, Versatile, Hard-Hitting Masterpiece: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Flipboard
GNX Is Buick’s Chance to Be Cool Again Automakers are having a bit of an identity crisis this week. One abandons its heritage for an avant-garde EV future while another that seemingly just …
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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Is a Meticulous, Versatile, Hard-Hitting Masterpiece: Album Review

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Lifestyle Australia Verified
Peter A. Berry 24 November 2024 at 12:57 pm·6-min read Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mandate: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a self-fulfilling mandate.
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LSU Superstar Flau’jae’s on Her ‘Master Plan’ to Chase Greatness in the Booth and on the Hardwood

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By Peter Berry
| blbrd.cm
After leading her LSU Tigers team to an easy win over the Northwestern State Lady Demons on Friday (Nov. 8), Flau’jae Johnson is facing off a slightly more challenging opponent: an abrupt weather change.
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Freddie Gibbs 'You Only Die 1nce' Album Review

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By Peter Berry, El Cousteau
| Stereogum Verified
In the history of annoying journalism clichés, no one’s ever embodied a “rapper’s rapper” as much as Freddie Gibbs. When he’s not sharing vivid D-Boy recollections or laughing at fallen enemies, he’ll make time to own it. Otherwise, critics like me will prescribe it for him, noting a gravelly baritone that emits intensity and the way his omni-directional flow agility is a perfect conduit for bars that can be as quippy as they are poignant.
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How Tyler, The Creator’s Creative Director Brought His ‘Chromakopia’ Listening Event to Life

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By Peter Berry
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
As a born aesthete, Tyler, The Creator’s always thought in shapes and colors rather than hard numbers. He leaves that stuff to folks like Silent House Studios president Alex Reardon, a creative director he’s worked with since Igor. On Sunday night (Oct. 27), fans in L.A.’s Intuit Dome saw the pair’s synergy unfold for Tyler’s listening event for Chromakopia, his eighth studio album that dropped this morning.
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GloRilla’s Debut Album Is Mostly 'GLORIOUS'

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By Peter Berry
| Stereogum Verified
It would be easy to call out GloRilla’s Kirk Franklin feature as the moment she got back to her church choir girl roots. But that would be ignoring her core function as a minister for disaffected baddies.
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Pursuit of Happiness: The Perseverance of Powers Pleasant

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By Peter Berry
| Okayplayer Verified
Look, Powers Pleasant’s new album is called Life Sucks. On its surface, the title rings as an emo bro’s blunt assessment of the human condition. But, more than that, it feels like a nod to the concept of perseverance even with a bleak status quo — a reality he came to grips with as a native of the Big Apple. “Growing up in New York, sometimes you might have to walk through your apartment building or your projects to get to where you have to go,” he shares.
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Pharrell Says He Sounds Like Mickey Mouse on Snoop Dogg’s “Beautiful”

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By Peter Berry
| Okayplayer Verified
With time comes perspective and, often, the ability to laugh at yourself. Pharrell enjoyed that personal liberation while remembering his turn as the hookman on Snoop Dogg’s second Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Bo$ single, “Beautiful.” During an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, Skateboard P recalled appearing on the song, comparing his quirky falsetto to the voice of an iconic cartoon character. “I had a song called ‘Beautiful’ with Snoop, right?” he began. “Girls heard me singing that.
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Diddy’s Mother Compares His Case to a Public Lynching

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By Peter Berry
| Okayplayer Verified
Weeks after Diddy was indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, his mother has stepped forward to defend his name. In a statement she released through the law firm Figgers Law on Sunday, Janice Combs expressed her disappointment over the charges while proclaiming his innocence. “I come to you today as a mother that is devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made against my son, Sean Combs.
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