Welcome to Rap Weekly 158: The Sword & The Soaring. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums The Sword & The Soaring by Navy Blue, No Control, No Glory by AKAI SOLO, Run Toward the Monster by Ty Farris & Apollo Brown, FLARE by detahjae, Relinquished by AJ Suede, Lord OLO, & TELEVANGEL, and A Smile to a Tear by Jay Cinema. Also look forward to great music videos from JasonMartin, Mike & Keys, Mike Shabb, Lil Yachty, billy woods, August Fanon, Aesop Rock, Boldy James, Nicholas Craven. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
Rap Weekly 157: Stardust
Welcome to Rap Weekly 157: Stardust. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums Stardust by Danny Brown, Mercy by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, SCRAM! by Domo Genesis & Graymatter, Bloo Velvet by Bloo Azul & Good Food, Faith In The Unknown by Shungu, and Everything In My Soul_BLUE by REASON. Also look forward to great music videos from Kal Banx, MEZ, LIJAH., R. SOL, OT The Real, Bruiser Wolf, Harry Fraud, and MONDAY NIGHT & LOOK DAMIEN!. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
Gangster in a Dress: Queering of Hip-Hop and Young Thug
Vogue magazine called the 2010s the decade when hip-hop’s wardrobe became more openly receptive to femininity. The thorny process of queering and reconceptualizing the unstable heteronormative image of Black hypermasculinity in African American popular culture neither begins nor ends with pioneering rapper Young Thug — yet he could have become its most important representative, if not for his own reluctance and conservative impulses holding him back.
Rap Weekly 156: Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King
Welcome to Rap Weekly 156: Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums I Heard It’s A Mess There Too by Aesop Rock, Hells Have Eyes 3 by Westside Gunn, The Reinvention by Ransom & DJ Premier, She Know U Lame by Big Kahuna Og & Foisey, UNTIL THE SKY BREAK by OBIJUAN & CAMOFLAUGE MONK, and Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King by Big L. Also look forward to great music videos from Ovrkast., Jesse James (Solomon), Navy Blue, Mike Shabb, and Knucks. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.
Rap Weekly 155: GOLDFISH
Welcome to Rap Weekly 155: GOLDFISH. Every Monday, we’ll take you into the world of rap and summarise the most exciting news, announcements and can’t-miss stories. Find out everything you need to know in one place. We only write about the best, so you get the best rap delicacies on a golden platter. We review the albums GOLDFISH by Hit-Boy & The Alchemist, fight the power! by Mike Shabb, A Spyglass to One’s Face by YUNGMORPHEUS & Dirty Art Club, ORBIT 2: AS THIS SPHERE SPINS by Sphere47, Made by Dope by Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud, Champagne Tears by Daylan Gideon & A1 Devin. Also look forward to great music videos from Lil Baby, YTB Fatt, YFN Lucci, KNOWLEDGE THE PIRATE, Armand Hammer, The Alchemist, Silka, Cleo Reed, MARCO PLUS, Swavay, & Ian. All this and much more in Rap Weekly.