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Best albums of 2021: ‘Vince Staples’
The California native delivered a brutally honest masterpiece
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Best albums of 2021: ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’
The Bruno Mars-Anderson .Paak collab lived up to the hype
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Best albums of 2021: Arlo Parks’ ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’
The album exemplifies the spectrum of emotions in a COVID-19 and grief-stricken world
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Best albums of 2021: Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Heaux Tales’
The album is the musical equivalent of a therapeutic group chat
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Best albums of 2021: Blackstarkids’ ‘Puppies Forever’
Their album eludes the nostalgia trap
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Minstrel songs like ‘The Eyes of Texas’ were once common on college football Saturdays in the South
Tunes such as ‘Dixie’ and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ reframed grueling Black physical labor as a subject of light entertainment for white fans
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HBO’s DMX documentary is as complicated as the man himself
Watching the rapper in the last year of his life, it felt like there was hope
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The tangled history of hip-hop and boxing
From Mike Tyson and Tupac to Zab Judah and Lil’ Kim, new book examines the connections between musicians and the fight game
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30 years after Magic’s diagnosis, a look at the intersection of hip-hop and the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Were hip-hop lyrics influenced by Johnson, Eazy-E’s death and the arrival of the lifesaving drug cocktail?