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,…
TYF’s Top 10 Albums of 2018 (So Far)
2018 has already seen plenty of great music, and fans of pretty much every genre should be quite content with the records that have come out in the first half of year. We’ve seen career defining…
Lil Rel Howery On His Love of Basketball (and Hannibal Buress) and Working With Legends in ‘Uncle Drew’ [Interview]
Breakout roles can come from any film or from any character. Lil Rel Howery’s came in the form of a dreaded TSA agent that quickly turned into one of the best comedic characters in one of the be…
Album Review: The Carters – “Everything is Love”
As the cultural phenoms they are, Beyoncé and Jay-Z continue to find new ways to get the world eating out of the palms of their hands. On an otherwise quiet summer evening, music lovers flocked to the…
From the Record Crate: Lil Wayne: “Tha Carter III” (2008)
In 2006, Nas released an album titled Hip Hop is Dead, a proclamation solely dedicated to bringing back much-needed talent amongst the genre. The New York rapper concluded that America’s voice h…
The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2017
For the second year in a row, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. For the 2017 installment we have expanded the list to include all 16 active mus…
This is Pop? Podcast Episode 13: 2018 Grammy Predictions
The nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Nov. 28 and included nods for several of the biggest acts of 2017, from Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars to Kesha and The National.…