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2020

Bartees Strange - Live Forever, Pitchfork

Distancing #21: Dear Science​, The Believer

2019
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Critics on the 10 greatest hip-hop songs of all time: Nas - "N.Y. State of Mind", BBC

Kanye West is an unreliable pastor on Jesus Is King, Entertainment Weekly
 
2018

Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol. 1, Pitchfork 
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How Did Muse Last 20 Years?, Stereogum 

Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Wave, Pitchfork

Prince's Debut Album 'For You' Four Decades Later: Does It Foreshadow a Superstar?, Billboard
 

2017

Bryson Tiller - True to Self, Spin 

Eminem - Revival, Spin 

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN., Spin 

I Don’t Understand Nav, Spin 

Phrenology at 15: How the Roots Hit a New Peak With Their “Anti-Roots” Album, Spin
 
Should the Urban Contemporary Grammy Category Be Abolished?, Spin
 
Who Criminalized the Durag?, GQ 
 
2016

Stop Calling Art ‘Unapologetically Black’, Complex 

2015
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Can the World Let Dawn Richard Be an Artist?, Noisey
 
Finding the Life in Flying Lotus' Vision of Death, Noisey

It's Hard Being a Fan of Kanye West, Vice

Revisiting the Radical Black Fever Dream of Kanye West's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, Vice

2014

FKA twigs — LP1, Consequence of Sound

Ghost of New York’s Street Past: Rast RFC’s “I’d Rather Make A Friend Than An Enemy”, Passion of the Weiss 

2013

Brandy and the Weirdness: Kelela’s Cut 4 Me, Passion of the Weiss

Gangstalicious: How The Boondocks Demystified Hip-Hop, Consequence of Sound  

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