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Slaying all these earthlings and fake foreigners. SON RAW - G. RAWmsey Vol 2 out NOW: son-raw.bandcamp.com/album/g-rawmsey-vol-2-lunch-money
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Inspectah Deck Reveals the Secrets of His Classic Records

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By Son Raw
| powmag.net
If you pressed a gun to my head and asked me to recite one verse, I’d walk away unharmed having delivered a word-for0word recital of Inspectah Deck on “Triumph.” I mention this not out of pride for my questionable verbal agility, but because on paper, it’s a strange pick: a complex knot of unorthodox vocabulary full of dense metaphors and sharp left turns, standing as perhaps the most roundabout way possible to describe a bank heist. Yet I’m far from alone in my love for bombing atomically.
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Coming of Age: How Reasonable Doubt Launched Jay-Z's Legacy

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By Son Raw
| powmag.net
Why Jay-Z? Out of every rapper, from Brooklyn to Compton, why did Shawn Carter emerge as the platonic ideal of the hip-hop superstar, an icon who redefined what was possible for the genre commercially while also shifting its artistic center toward his specific concerns and proclivities?
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The POW Best Albums of 2025

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By Jeff Weiss Verified, Son Raw, Douglas Martin, Chris Daly
| POW Magazine Verified
Art via Evan Solano If you value independent journalism, please subscribe to the POW Patreon. Slime-colored bandannas in front of the flag, wolves clutching draco’s, ecclesiastical orchestrations, drums exploding into shrapnel, siren-like drones, halcyon memories becoming increasingly unfamiliar, Max Roach vocals, coke rap at the Vatican, ayahuasca trance, broken phones, cyberpunk, and living, laughing, and loving. It was 2025. Sold out arenas across the country.
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