Freddie Gibbs’ Alfredo, his album alongside producer and frequent collaborator The Alchemist, is as prolific a project the chronically unpredictable 2020 has seen or will see. “Brass knuckle lyricism,” music critic Yoh Phillips dubbed it the day of its release. But when Gibbs answers the phone on a recent Friday evening, there’s a familiar weight to his voice. For many black men and women like Gibbs, that weight is a generational heirloom — being black in a country that adores black culture, but not always the creators of it…
It’s June 19, and Chuck D is heading to a radio interview in Los Angeles. He has a lot to say, and he’s just getting started. Earlier in the day, Public Enemy dropped “State of the Union…
Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century and tells us how the hallmarks of hip-hop — allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the…
The story of No Limit Records has a dark origin. Master P’s grandfather was killed in a work-related accident at a New Orleans hospital. The hospital settled a negligence claim over his…
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