The Hip Hop Roundup: NoCap, DJ Lucas, Baby Smoove and more

Album of the Week: NoCap – Steel Human Kobe Crawford’s life officially changed after the release of his emotional 2019 eulogy “Ghetto Angels.” The Mobile, AL rapper quickly morphed into a local messiah who was touching old-school southern roots. He…

The Hip Hop Roundup: Lor Choc, Kid Cudi, ALLBLACK and More

Project of the week: Lor Choc – Still Worth It Baltimore’s Lor Choc follows a long lineage of auto-tune blues crooners who sing about persevering through genuine hardship over guitar-laden trap passages. The landscape has become so saturated with this…

Hip Hop Roundup March 22: Sada Baby, Mac Hefner, Quelle Chris and more

Album of the week: Sada Baby – Skuba Sada 2 It would seem that in a world where social distancing is becoming more and more prevalent by the day, a “jerk” challenge would spark from various TikTok accounts. This eccentric…

The Hip Hop Roundup: Chief Keef, Ill Addicts, Don Tolliver and more

Album of the week: Ill Addicts – Malfunction Boston’s Ill Addicts may have just released the perfect cataclysmic album for our apocalyptic world setting. Compared to their jovial approach in the past (“Cake,” “Ahora”), Malfunction illustrates a group that’s more…