Shatter the Standards

H.E.R. made her first album after the Oscar and the Song of the Year, filled the front of it with guests, and wrote her best songs about the lovers she couldn’t stop calling and couldn’t stop leaving.

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Home from eight months on Rikers Island, Lil Wayne folded the jail into his punchlines, and those jokes tell the truest version of his homecoming.

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The last album from hip-hop’s most important group dropped three days after Trump won, but nothing on it was news. The country had been saying the quiet part loud for decades.

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With leeks on the stove and children asleep down the hall, billy woods and ELUCID take up Claude McKay’s 1919 vow to die fighting, and Snakes & Ladders makes it a parent’s promise.

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