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Noname finally releases her keenly anticipated debut, Telefone. In a day awash with new music – amidst new Lil Uzi Vert and Soulja Boy mixtapes, a new Earl Sweatshirt instrumental cut, a ridiculously large amount of unreleased…
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A match made in heaven, Mac Miller enlists Anderson .Paak to help deliver a groovy track to ignite the hype for Mac’s forthcoming LP. We’re in the dog days of one of the hottest summers on…
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The soundtrack to The Land, the motion picture that Nas himself executively produced, has finally hit the web. The star-studded original soundtrack to the independent film includes heavy hitters such as Kanye West, Pusha T, Erykah Badu, Machine…
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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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There’s an old saying in hip-hop that goes: “rappers want to be ballers, and ballers want to be rappers”. It’s a phrase that points to a narrative that describes a mutualistic relationship between hip-hop artists…
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DJ Khaled has dropped the latest single from his forthcoming album “Major Key” – the Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar and Betty Wright assisted “Holy Key”. Music’s most popular mogul / banal yet loveable internet meme…
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Guwop marks his return to the outside with a banger-stacked album executively curated by heavyweight hit-makers Mike WiLL Made-It & Zaytoven. After a three-year stint in prison that has definitely left its mark on Guwop in more…
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Welcome to the first entry in Hypewriter’s Best of the Week series, where we showcase our favourite reader-submitted music, handpicked each week! We hope to bring attention to a myriad of young and promising talent with each…
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The long-awaited track, built from the foundations of Desiigner‘s polarising XXL Freestyle, has been eagerly anticipated since the freestyle video dropped a few weeks ago. After a number of pump-fake ‘imminent release‘ posts from both Mike…
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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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At this year’s ESPY awards presentation, Chance the Rapper has performed a sermon-like tribute to one of his biggest idols, the late Muhammad Ali. With full orchestration and a backing choir, Chano and The Social Experiment…
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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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