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21 Savage Creates His Own World on 'Savage Mode'

Slaughter Gang It’s been a little over a year since 21 Savage posted “Red Rag, Blue Rag,” the first video from his debut mixtape, Slaughter Tape, which dropped in May of 2015. In that short span of 14 months, 21 has gone from a relative unknown to a local superstar, touring around the South to crowds that […]

Schoolboy Q Faces His Demons on 'Blank Face LP'

Interscope Records / Top Dawg Entertainment Since they rose to stardom together as part of Black Hippy, Schoolboy Q has been sort of a perfect counter to Kendrick Lamar. K. Dot has always had this good kid, almost angelic, persona as he drops his inspirational raps about self-love and perseverance in hard times. On the other side […]

OutKast – Stankonia

Imagine the hip hop of today without the influence of OutKast’s fourth album. No Stankonia: quite possibly no Frank Ocean, no Janelle Monáe, no Shabazz Palaces; no southern playas taking the four elements from New York to outer space via the suburbs of the ATL. How boring. While Stankonia wasn’t the first taste of this […]