From his formative days associating with Raider Klan through his revealing solo projects TA13OO and ZUU, Denzel Curry has never been shy about speaking his mind. For Melt My Eyez See Your Future, the Florida native tackles some of the toughest topics of his MC career, sharing his existential notes on being Black and male in these volatile times.

If one was to interpret the whole output of EABS in general, an inquisitive listener would notice that each subsequent album stems from the previous one. The overtones are similar and they can be treated as variations on the same theme. The only thing that changes is the background of the story. It is all about life and death, the beginning and the end of the world, and the role of human beings entangled in all this existentially. Following the futurism lessons from Sun Ra, the band travels to the year 2061, continuing their mission in space in the company of a living legend, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski.

Entergalactic is the eighth studio album by American musician Kid Cudi. The album was released on September 30, 2022, as the musical component to Cudi's adult animated special of the same name. The album was initially announced in a 2019 press release revealing an animated music series created by Cudi for Netflix, alongside American film and television writer Kenya Barris, with the album to be issued alongside the series. The dual projects would later be delayed into 2022 in favor of Cudi focusing on the release of Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (2020).

Spirit World Field Guide is the eighth studio album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock. It was released on November 13, 2020, through Rhymesayers Entertainment. It acts as a "guide" to the Spirit World. The album was preceded by two singles: "The Gates" released on September 9, and "Pizza Alley" released on October 16, 2020. Both were released with music videos directed by Rob Shaw and featuring animation from Justin "Coro" Kaufman, who also designed the album's cover art. A third single and music video, "Coveralls", was released on November 13 alongside the album.

Something to remember while listening to the 2020 anthology Beastie Boys Music is that the band never knew what they were doing exactly—they had ideas but not really a plan. At least, not evidently. Listening to Music, the impression is of a band in a state of restless experimentation, true to themselves but so dilated and available to what the world had to offer that they couldn’t stay in place for long. They were magpies, and in their continuous absorption—new and old, white and black, cool and cool-in-waiting—they not only redrew boundaries between hip-hop, pop, and rock, but anticipated a culture in which stewing together your disparate interests could be a gesture of creativity in and of itself.

Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop album in seventeen years - since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM - and Black Thought’s only full length collaboration beyond his pioneering music in The Roots. On No Gold Teeth, Danger Mouse’s soulful, freewheeling production serves as the perfect backdrop to Black Thought’s metronomic, pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge. The result is a dizzying, thrilling opening single from two of contemporary music’s most respected artists.

The latest masterpiece is a celebration of family and heritage, taking inspiration from Zamrock, Zambia's fusion genre.

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is the third studio album by MC Hammer, released on February 12, 1990, by Capitol Records and EMI Records. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Felton Pilate and James Earley.

Curtain Call 2 is the second greatest hits collection by Detroit legend, Eminem. The project serves as the sequel to his December 2005 album, Curtain Call: The Hits.

Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes is a new full-length by Philadelphia based artist, poet, and musician, Camae Ayewa, who performs under the name Moor Mother.

On her second album, the New Jersey singer-songwriter recenters her romantic anguish through a more muted delivery, but her plaintive songwriting hasn’t lost its intoxicating touch…

South Londoner Wu-Lu’s stunning new album contains post-genre war dubs that speak directly to these richly troubled times. The twelve simmering tracks from the producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist are made of depth-charged post-punk, thrashed-up skate-park screamo, and the gauzy hip hop that Knwxledge might make if he’d got lost round the back of The Windmill on Brixton Hill.

Weaving together hip-hop, lo-fi, jazz, r’n’b, and psychedelic rock, Stimulator Jones is releasing a new album called, Round Spiritual Ring, via Stones Throw this July. Reflecting a more personal side than Stimulator Jones’ debut LP, the album touches on his struggles with depression and chronic pain.

Vinyl Days is the seventh studio album by American rapper Logic, released on June 17, 2022, by Visionary Music Group and Def Jam Recordings. The album is Logic's final album with Def Jam Recordings. It contains 30 songs, making it the album with the most tracks in his discography, and features notable guest appearances from Wiz Khalifa, Action Bronson, Russ, The Game, Royce da 5'9, RZA, DJ Premier, and many others.

Afrika Bambaataa, one of hip-hop's progenitors, was known as a talented DJ before his single "Planet Rock" came out in 1982 on Tommy Boy. The song, which sampled (actually re-recorded in the studio) elements of Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" and was the first R&B track to use an 808, helped define a new movement in music, electro, which then inspired Miami bass and Detroit techno, and pushed the musician's status toward near iconic. Planet Rock: The Album, a collection of singles that came out four years later, captures Bambaataa's energy and innovation…