Tagged Rap

Every year close to the holidays you can always expect a bevy of hot movies and music to drop to help kick off (and survive) the season. This week many albums that have been slowly stewing for awhile popped...

Say what you will about 2016, but it undeniably has produced great, if not legendary, hip hop. No further evidence of that is the brilliance of the long (and we do mean long!) awaited album from A Tribe Called...

With the election looming in our sights this week, it’s safe to say that Americans from sea to shining sea are suffering from serious election fatigue. Apropos then, that many choices in new music chose to...

This most recent installment in new music, unofficially Halloweekend to most, saw some pretty docile and decidedly not ghoulish releases; at the forefront of hip hop a showdown transpired amongst Jeezy, Meek...

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard an good ol’ mixtape-styled rant from Eminem, but this week that all changed when the rapper decided to weigh in on the election with “Campaign Song.” Other special...

Every once and awhile there’s a slightly unbalanced distribution in what type of music genre sounds best each week; this time around the Best Of list leaned heavy on the hip hop side. But, as a general rule,...

This week there was a subtle/not so subtle request made towards Zayn Malik to move over, as his former 1D bandmate Niall Horan branched out on his own with This Town, opting for earnestness over Zayn’s...

In a world of young pop starlets and R&B bad boys, the kings of New (re)releases this week were two monoliths of rock n roll, with Bruce Springsteen releasing, on his birthday no less, Chapter and Verse,...

As the summer blockbusters are stored away with only their Rotten Tomatoes ranking to haunt them forever, this week’s new music playlist still featured plenty of songs made for soundtracks. The always-down...

There’s nothing like that feeling following weeks of anticipation waiting for a new song, movie, book, what have you, from one of your favorite artists. That feeling when you hit play is something akin to...

Left to its own devices this week, new music came hurtling in our direction with a slew of familiar artists, including AlunaGeorge requesting herself to be chief ‘Meditator’ for compromising situations,...

The curators of this week’s New Music Friday playlist must have known we needed one big push before diving head first into Fall, (that or something to help us cope with MTV’s annual VMAs this past weekend)...