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Best Songs of 2024
The fifty best songs of 2024, featuring The Weeknd, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Central Cee & more.
Best Albums of 2024
The thirty best albums of 2024, featuring Kendrick Lamar, Future, Doechii, Mach-Hommy & more.
Review: Kendrick Lamar, ‘GNX’
Personal and regional respect is earned on Lamar’s sixth studio album, fuelled by rage, reflection and a fever to relish the victims of his tripwires.
Review: Meekz, ‘TRU’
The Manchester rapper’s second mixtape cultivates a self-reliant image, amplifying confident raps that portray a believable world beyond reasonable doubt.
Best Albums of 2023
The thirty best albums of 2023, featuring Travis Scott, Sampha, Billy Woods, Cleo Sol and more.
Best Songs of 2023
The fifty best songs of 2023, featuring Gunna, Jorja Smith, Central Cee, Amaarae and more.
Review: M1OnTheBeat, ‘M1OnTheBeat: The Mixtape’
UK drill producer M1ontheBeat tackles curation duties on his debut project, blaring the fundamentals of the genre he helped pioneer.
Review: CASISDEAD, ‘Famous Last Words’
The masked rapper’s debut album is an exceptional world-builder, bleak yet glistening in its dystopian soundtrack to an instant classic.
Review: Drake, ‘For All the Dogs’
Drake needs a break from exposing his self-absorption, and we need a break from warming up to his so-called sleepers.
Review: Nas, ‘Magic 3’
Nasir Jones rolls back the years for a sixth time, replicating the rap equivalent of Michael Jordan’s three-peats with the Bulls.
Review: Travis Scott, ‘Utopia’
The Houston native’s fourth album affirms Scott as a sweeping sonic conductor.
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2023 So Far
The standout hip hop albums from January to July 2023.
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