From comeback albums by established legends to more experimental offerings from the younger generation, 2025 was a marquee year for rap, streaming numbers be damned ...

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A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

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Kids raised in cities often have memories that make suburbanites blush. When Chris “Time” Steele was growing up on the Northside, he and some friends found an abandoned gun. “We had found it in this ...