Album Reviews8/10
JPEGMAFIA’s ‘Black Ben Carson’: Ten Years On, Still the Baltimore Rap Landmark It Deserves to Be
A Baltimore rap record of fury, humor, and self-examination, told in twenty-two tracks across eighty-six minutes.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Tag: political rap
Album Reviews8/10
Moor Mother and billy woods join forces on the 15-track BRASS
A ghostly record of furies, maroons, and ancient emperors, wherein Moor Mother and billy woods conjure dread and prophecy alike.
Album Reviews7.7/10
Hiding Places Review: Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Lock You in a Room Where There’s No Air
A review of Billy Woods and Kenny Segal's Hiding Places, a dense, uneasy record of dread and grim acceptance.
Album Reviews8/10
Nas’s 2008 Album Uses Its Own Title to Argue for Protest, Legacy, and Personal Story All at Once
A record of power, protest, and pride, wherein Nas seeks to prove his neighborhood rules the city.
Album Reviews7/10
Vince Staples Trades Long Beach for the Whole Country on Cry Baby
Vince Staples trades Long Beach for America on Cry Baby, a sharp, short record that turns personal pain into political fury.
Album Reviews8.1/10
Public Enemy Strip Down the Bomb Squad on Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
Public Enemy's Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black is a blunt, direct manifesto of anger and wit.
Album Reviews8/10
Public Enemy’s ‘Evil Empire’ Restates Its Case With Anger, Not Innovation
Public Enemy's 2012 album The Evil Empire of Everything restates their warnings against corporate greed and racial injustice with urgency.
Album Reviews10/10
Noise by Noise: Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ Still Takes What It Wants
A record from 1988 that takes attention and never gives it back, full of noise, fury, and voice.