Sampling is a staple technique for music producers, and creates stepping-stones for the next artists in line. It also allows for genre-morphing mixes that look baffling on paper but can give a song an iconic appeal or breathe new life into it. And it can open doors for audiences, leading them to new sounds and […]
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Bay Area rapper Larry June luxuriates in his bountiful, growing catalog
Rappers have been more than game to roll with pop culture’s endless churn, and Larry June is especially skilled at releasing new material fast enough for perpetually refreshed feeds. In the past 12 months, the Bay Area MC has dropped six full-lengths on his Freeminded label: February’s Early Bird, April’s The Port of San Francisco, […]
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Black-metal lightning rods Liturgy rise above the storm
Front man Hunter Hunt-Hendrix discusses the strange, exalted, and uncategorizable new album that should finally end the argument about where the band belongs.
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12 O’Clock Track: Rustie’s “City Star,” in anticipation of Danny Brown’s Old
We’ve featured Danny Brown too many times, so it’s time to write about one of his producers.
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Kanye West and the perils of cool-dad syndrome
Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
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Who owns trap?
Does music born of Dirty South drug wars have any place in squeaky-clean dance clubs?
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12 O’Clock Track: WWNNN featuring Hollow and Lavish Mzck, “Chill the Fuck Out”
Extreme trap meets neon Kanye
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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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12 O’Clock Track: Chance the Rapper, “Fuck You Tahm Bout”
A raging anthem for pissed-off suspended kids everywhere