VINCE STAPLES – Cry Baby
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VINCE STAPLES – Cry Baby

From Public Enemy to Death Grips, via Ice-T, Dälek, and a few others, rock has often proved a powerful outlet for Black political anger. Few forms are better suited to addressing the African American experience than one rooted in Black music itself. On "Cry Baby", a live, punk, caustic record that ends his run of introspective albums, Vince Staples places himself brilliantly in that tradition.
WESTSIDE GUNN & CONWAY – Griselda Ghost
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WESTSIDE GUNN & CONWAY – Griselda Ghost

The "Griselda Ghost" EP is the record that put the Griselda crew on the map. It is also the manifesto of a blogger, Big Ghost Ltd, revealing himself to be an accomplished producer. And finally, it is a true work of East Coast rap revivalism, with beats still firmly boom bap rather than *drumless*, beautiful ’70s samples, and a format concise enough to ensure maximum impact.
EPIC – Heater In My Truck II 
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EPIC – Heater In My Truck II 

Twenty-three years later, Epic delivers a sequel to "Heater On My Truck", and almost nothing has changed: our rapper who doesn’t look like a rapper still deals in trivial subject matter and shares his love of hip-hop alongside fellow veterans of the Canadian underground, Moka Only, DJ Moves, and Noah23. Sure, this laid-back rap very much shows its age. But it’s aging pretty well.