The Hip Hop Roundup: Smino, Rucci, Kaash Paige and More

Album of the week: Smino – She Already Decided Some rappers incorporate different flows in their music with an unflappable ease. Smino invents them. The St. Louis native’s new mixtape She Already Decided is a zig-zag hosh-posh of vocal exercising.…

We’re All Stuck Inside On The 5th Anniversary Of “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside”

I don’t know where you’re reading this at, but I know what you’re reading this in.  I know because I’m in it as well. This feeling. This stillness, this increasing dissociation after each new headline, this frustration towards everything. It…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists…

Bi-Weekly Hip Hop Roundup: Week of July 6, 2019

As the summer starts to heat up, hip hop artists from across the country are searching for that hit track to be played on repeat in everyone’s car. Unfortunately, many will fail, as “Old Town Road” continues to dominate the…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2018

For the third year in running, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. As with last year, the list was compiled through the votes of our music staff, plus…

Album Review: I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside – An Album by Earl Sweatshirt

To say Doris is really good or even great is an overstatement. The instrumentals were jazzy, lively, and dark and he’s a damn good lyricist. But his monotone flow didn’t want me to go back to it much. Yet, this…

Music News: Stream Earl Sweatshirt’s album “Doris”

While we await the official release for Earl Sweatshirt‘s album Doris on August 20th, you can go ahead listen to it in its entirety on the Odd Future Tumblr. Earl has collaborations on Doris with fellow Odd Future members Frank Ocean,…