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10 Things I Already Know About You if You’re Listening to Nas’ New Album Nasir
Sometime in the ungodly hours after midnight—the hours when men get drunk and send “Hey Bighead, you up?” texts—one of the cinderblock pillars in the upper portion of hip-hop’s foundation released an album. Queens, N.Y., rapper Nas released the “Make America Great Again”-hat-wearing-Kanye West-produced album Nasir, and the internet was ablaze; the Queensbridge listening party…
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Janelle Monáe Says Dirty Computer Is a Soundtrack for Carefree Black Women Who Are ‘Beautiful as Fuck’
I woke up this morning to headlines of Janelle Monáe coming out as a “queer black woman.” Sure, this is something many of us speculated about and indulged over once we peeped the visuals for her new album, Dirty Computer, but to have the CEO, record label owner, CoverGirl, artist and actual black girl magician…
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K. Michelle’s New Album Is Basically The Shade Room: The Musical
K. Michelle’s latest album, Kimberly: The People I Used to Know, is more or less an hourlong, multigenre “Fuck you” to various folks who have pissed her off for varied reasons through the years. The frame of mind she entered or at least settled on for her fourth studio effort is laid bare in the…