The 50 Best Albums of 2021

Despite all the ups and downs in the world this year, 2021 was a good year for music of all sorts. There were thrilling returns by veteran artists, impressive debuts from newer acts, and the development of fascinating new scenes…

The Hip Hop Roundup: The Best From May’s First Week

RLouie – Louie Black Massachusetts continues an unprecedented hot streak with these celebratory collaborative efforts. Less than a month after ALFII released his video game anthology, Brockton native RLouie blesses local diehards with a six-track quick hitter that features soul-crushing…

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…

Album Review: JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes Are Cornballs

JPEGMAFIA is a rapper that the internet loves to hate. His last album, Veteran, propelled him to one of underground rap’s most welcome stars. Anger flowed all throughout Veteran. With track titles like “I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies”,…

The Bi-Weekly Hip Hop Roundup: The Underground is Bubbling

Rap hit a lull over the past couple of weeks, where very few mainstream artists put out much of anything. Fans instead focused their attention on a variety of other relevant news (or irrelevant; depending on how you look at…

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…