Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on the bygone world of Jay-Z’s debut album.

We hope this feature will inspire you to seek out some of the smaller names here.

A layered, dense and intense album from the Atlanta rapper investigates family, place, violence and history.

Rico Nasty continues to assert that human emotion is not a singular experience, and one can express the particularities of feeling your feelings through music in humorous or heartbreaking ways.

ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in the park .

A future where Jensen McRae’s music becomes nearly inescapable is entirely possible.