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Hip hop
Hip hop news and analysis from The Nation
August 4, 2020
Ice Cube joins the show to talk anti-Semitism, and the Contract With Black America.
December 15, 2017
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
December 14, 2016
As the business of recorded music roils, the making of music rolls on.
November 18, 2016
The group returned just when we needed it.
November 5, 2016
Rap music’s nice guy plays it safe on his new album Black America Again .
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September 15, 2016
The Get Down , Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
May 2, 2016
Despite his laconic demeanor, lowered expectations, and swag-proof wardrobe, the singer has still managed to create a platinum-selling album.
March 31, 2016
D’Angelo Russell is being dragged through the mud by his teammates and the media. But it’s his entire organization that should be looking in the mirror.
March 18, 2016
On The Life of Pablo , where Kanye West most fully shares his doubts, he is more convincing as a Christian than on his other albums.
January 27, 2016
The comedian Kevin Hart’s new signature Nike shoes represent a complicated mixture of pride and injury.
