The local rap hero is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise anemic Lollapalooza lineup that also includes Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, and, um, Liam Gallagher.
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DJ Mustard’s lean, mean ratchet party 10 Summers and 14 more record reviews
Ten Reader writers review 15 new records, including Pallbearer’s stately, mournful doom, Willis Earl Beal’s raw, mystical antipop, and Jack Ruby’s staggeringly savage no wave.
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Common comes home to a different Chicago on Nobody’s Smiling
On his tenth album the MC who helped put Chicago’s scene on the map delivers a grim, uneven, and occasionally compelling portrait of inner-city violence.
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12 O’Clock Track: Kendrick Lamar steals Big Sean’s “Control (HOF)”
Old-school rap braggadocio is back.
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Munchi gives the trap-EDM trend a banging send-off
Maybe the last trap-dance mixtape you need to download
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12 O’Clock Track: Big Sean, “How It Feel”
The soulful, trunk-rattling lead single from Sean’s new mixtape
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This week on the B Side
Saying goodbye to the Pitchfork Fest, talking Big Sean, underground soul auteur Peven Everett, and more
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Big Sean, big shadow
Kanye West’s label might not be the best place to release a debut album called Finally Famous