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‘Harlem’s Finest’ Aims to Affirm Big L’s Place Among Rap Greats
Inside the long, meticulous process to clear rights, lift a cappellas, and craft a ’90s-leaning statement that argues for L’s place among rap’s greatest
- Flamboyant Forever
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Public Enemy Urge Us to ‘Do Something’ in Politically-Charged Music Video
"The Hits Just Keep on Comin’" is a single from their Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 album, with a clip starring a U.S. water polo Olympic athlete
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How Activists Are Fighting Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago
The president wants to replicate his Washington, D.C., “success” in Chicago. Targeted communities have found similar ways to resist in both cities
- Melting ICE
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Mac Miller’s Estate Celebrates 10 Years Of ‘GO:OD AM’ With 3 New Songs
The estate also released a new visualizer for “Rush Hour”
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Young Miko Reveals New Album, ‘Do Not Disturb’ Is Coming Nov. 7
She also dropped the album's focus single "Likey Likey"
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If You Need AI to Hear the ‘Soul’ in Rap, You Were Never Listening
Turning “Many Men” into a fake Marvin Gaye track isn’t a tribute. It’s a reminder that too many people only hear rap when it sounds like something else
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‘A War Zone Created by Trump’: Four Chicago Rappers Speak Out Against ICE Occupation
As Trump’s agents raid South Shore and other neighborhoods, local rappers are speaking up for their fellow Chicagoans
- On the Ground
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Photographer Eric Johnson Remembers Cruising New York With D’Angelo
How a chance encounter with the late musician led to some of the most iconic imagery of his career
- Photographic Memory
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Big L and Nas Connect on Lead Single from ‘Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King’
The lyrical exercise is the first glimpse of the posthumous project, coming on Halloween
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.idk.’s New Single Features DMX Over Surging Kaytranada Production
The single, which comes from a prior collaboration, is from .idk.’s upcoming Even the Devil Smiles mixtape
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