LNYCHPIN is a welcome and valuable linchpin for the continuing success of quality progressive, experimental, multiform rap that still bubbles throughout hip-hop's Mecca

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The latest in a series of themed releases by ManKind (!LLumiN@TE + SciryL) is full of vivid storytelling told from the perspective of black life during and after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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We begin our "Track for Track" series with Crimdella's Bury Me In Gold, Vol. 1, a 7-song EP that made it to our Essential New York Hip-Hop - 2016 Year End Edition

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“Project:Draw” is a collaboration between Stronghold Crew-affiliated Breez Evahflowin and 2 Hungry Bros producer, Deep. The joint effort marks Breeze Evahflowin’s first release in eight years, and the prelude to the full DeeP BreeZ project, Bring Out Your Dead, due out in June on HipNott Records. “Project:Draw” will be available on limited 7″ vinyl from Origu […]

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New York hip-hop is back! Well, no. It never left! And since NO ONE knows New York hip-hop like us, here's a rundown of the best of new New York rap that you really don't want to miss.

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After a few jabs back and forth, Remy Ma unleashes a full-out lyrical (and personal) assault on Nicki Minaj, over the classic "Ether" instrumental.

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Along with NYC-based production team 2 Hungry Bros., LiKWUiD successfully merges two typically disparate 'sounds' in modern hip-hop music -- NY and not-NY.

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Pro Era wunderkind Joey Badaas has always shown a predilection for vocabulary and deep thoughts, evidenced all the way back to his attention-grabbing 1999 mixtape that greatly elevated the young Brooklynite’s visibility. Tidbits of introspection and socio-political thought has been sprinkled throughout his work since then, and has made its way to the forefront with Joey Badass’s latest […]

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If "that ol' thing' is the New York hip-hop "sound," we don't think it ever really left. These veteran MCs combine to put an exclamation point on that theory.

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JSWISS links with hip-hop/jazz band Temple5 for the jazzy "I Wish," a reflective look at current events and the general state of things.

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