The 40 Best Albums of 2016
Welcome to Hypewriter’s 40 Best Albums of 2016! Now that 2017 is well under way, it’s about time we looked back on some of the best music that last year had to offer. This list is…
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Mac Miller – “The Divine Feminine” (Album Review)
What’s the opposite of saying an album grew on me? It fell off of me? It shrank on me? It fell off of me and continued to grow? Whatever it is, The Divine Feminine did…
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Travis Scott – “Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight” (Album Review)
Travis Scott’s latest effort fails to deliver the same depth as its predecessor. If there’s any figure in rap music that can uphold the self-proclamation of a rockstar, it’s Travis Scott. From his ignorant, unkempt style…
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Isaiah Rashad – “The Sun’s Tirade” (Album Review)
Following the cultural movement that Kendrick Lamar crafted with To Pimp a Butterfly is a monumental task, add on top of that following the critical darling that Schoolboy Q created with Blank Face LP just…
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Tory Lanez – “I Told You” (Album Review)
Toronto native Tory Lanez proves that success is the best revenge on his debut album. If the only viewing platform into the life of Tory Lanez you have is through his social media, then I feel…
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Here’s Why Common’s “Be” is a Classic
Prior to rapper-turned-actor Common‘s release of his fifth album, Electric Circus, in 2002, expectations for the album were sky high. Its predecessor, Like Water For Chocolate, was met with both positive reviews calling him a “great storyteller”…
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Lil Yachty – “Summer Songs 2” (Mixtape Review)
Lil Yachty returns with another decent, though less surprising, effort. I remember an almost palpable feeling of unease and disgust the first time I heard Lil Yachty‘s Minnesota last year during the 13th episode of OVO…
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Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP (Album Review)
L.A. rapper ScHoolboy Q is back as a better class of criminal on his third album. A lot has changed since we last heard a new ScHoolboy Q album. Q’s last album, the hit-filled Oxymoron,…
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The Avalanches – Wildflower (Album Review)
The Avalanches make a triumphant return to music with their first release in 16 years. If Since I Left You was the calm before the storm, Wildflower serves to show that, at some point in the last…
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Joey Purp – iiiDrops (Mixtape Review)
Chicago rapper and SaveMoney affiliate Joey Purp returns with his sophomore solo mixtape iiiDrops; a gritty, distorted aural trip on Purp’s unending search for truth in a world overshadowed with pain and loss. Blaring horns…
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Desiigner – New English (Mixtape Review)
Although Desiigner continues to prove himself to be the human incarceration of the 100 emoji as he dabs and aggressively ad-libs his way through music and life itself, that energy translates poorly on wax on…
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YG – Still Brazy (Album Review)
LA’s most charismatic young rapper returns over bombastic West Coast beats on his impressive sophomore album. It would’ve been hard to believe three years ago that the same rapper behind 2013 chart-topper ‘My Nigga‘ would…
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