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Album Review: Kanye West, Bully Kanye West Bully (released March 28, 2026) If you don’t believe that Kanye West is the most polarizing rapper on the planet, just look at my DMs. While I was at the gym this morning, I received thr…

If you ask my inbox, Ye's #Bully is either his best album in years or this worst ever. And as weird as it sounds, I kinda agree with both sides. This album is three steps forward, three steps backward.

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Exactly

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Our community will be so much stronger when y'all stop handing out cookout passes.

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Bring back gospel interludes on R&B albums.

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The only thing that will heal us is X-Men 97 season 2

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Album Review: Bruno Mars, The Romantic Bruno Mars The Romantic (released February 27, 2026) Gotta admit, I always chucklewhen Bruno Mars’ critics claim that he’s predictable and formulaic. “Every song sounds the same,” they tell me. My …

Just when y'all were ready to put Bruno Mars in a box, with the help of D'Mile he decides to evolve again. #TheRomantic is a little sadder, much more mature but as thrilling as always. He keeps winning.

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Album Review: Jill Scott, To Whom This May Concern Jill Scott To Whom This May Concern (released February 13, 2026) We often demand too much of our legends. Blame social media for giving overeager fans a platform to guilt artists into coming out of…

After a decade-long layoff, Jill Scott picked the perfect time to return. The result is one of her best albums to date, and with a discography as strong as hers, that's saying a lot.

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Album Review: J. Cole, The Fall Off J. Cole The Fall Off (released February 6, 2026) You can’t call yourself a legend in hip-hop without first solidifying your legacy. Look at the greats. Big Pun – a trailblazer for Latinos in hip-ho…

So, if this is really the end, what's #JCole's legacy? I think this album gives us the answer.

#TheFallOff is far from a perfect project but the journey winds up greater than the destination

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"But I don't understand what Bad Bunny is saying, how can I enjoy this?"

Y'all have been listening to SZA mumble for 10 years, you'll be fine.

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That’s why I didn’t comment

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My grandfather. 102 years old and still the flyest in the room.

Happy birthday to my inspiration.

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If you walk into your house of worship this morning and they're silent on the suffering in our country today, LEAVE.

Jesus was a table-flipping, anti-corruption, peace-seeking radical. If your minister can't relate, Jesus ain't in there.

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A queen

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Dr. King was a the personification of revolution. He was the truth that sliced through webs of orchestrated lies. He was more than a dreamer, he was a disruptor.

He's the spirit of change our country desperately needs today. #MLKDay

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Despite what you'll see on these apps today, MLK was not an out-of-context quote. He was not a passive observer or watered down caricature.

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The Best R&B Albums of the 2020s … So Far Somehow, we did it. By the eternal grace of God, we’re halfway through the 2020s. And let’s be real, this half-decade has been half-ghetto so far. But let’s stick to the positives…

I know it's easy to dismiss modern R&B as not as compelling as past decades, but we're halfway through the 2020s and the state of R&B is probably stronger than you realize. The 25 best R&B albums of the 2020s so far. #SoulInStereo soulinstereo.com/2026/01/the-...

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Can’t wait for the very folks who have been violating civil rights for 365 days to start posting MLK quotes 😒

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We've seen an American murdered on camera while the gunman mocked her. The current occupant of the White House is spitting segregationist rhetoric in the face of the Civil Rights Act. I have friends – actual legal citizens of this country – afraid to walk the streets.

Y'all aren't angry enough.

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If Aubrey had more than two brain cells under those braids he should really be rethinking that ICEman album title right about now.

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IT IS THE YEAR … 2026
*Transformers 86 movie voice*

#HNY2026

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First Richard Smallwood, now Clay Davis!? 2025 is acting a fool on the way out.

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr.

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If you never ate Now & Laters with little bits of paper stuck to them you can't argue with me about music.

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Merry Christmas Jim!

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Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now

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He had a puppy for like a week about 10 years ago. This is exactly how I felt.

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Once a week I tell myself that I want a puppy.

Also once a week I talk myself out of it.

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The 2025 Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity Antics Of The Year I don’t know about you playas, but I’m ready to put 2025 in my rear view. I can’t think of a year in my lifetime filled with more chicanery, buffoonery and downright criminal acti…

From couples creeping at Coldplay to Young Money and Dipset down bad to whatever is going on with Jermaine Jackson's head, 2025 nearly drove me to drink. I might as well, because clearly these people are.

It's time for the annual Playa Please Awards. Watch me go off on the worst of the worst.

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Live a life so undeniable that the bigots scramble – and fail – to discredit you in death.

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Six months ago I would never think I’d make this statement, but in December 2025 I stand by it: 2025 is probably my favorite year in music since 2012. The year started out OK – a few very str…

2025: The year R&B began to find its voice again, legends received the spotlight they deserved and we witnessed comebacks for the ages.

I listened to *218* projects this calendar year. Here are the 50 best.

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Album Review: Nas and DJ Premier, Light-Years Nas and DJ Premier Light-Years (released December 12, 2025) Spring 1999. It was the era Nas was supposed to go three for three. After recharting the course of rap with his debut Illmatic and cement…

Light-Years is the hip-hop White Whale that I've been chasing for literally half my lifetime. What we got wasn't what I expected, but what we needed – a beautiful ode to hip-hop culture and the perfect way to cap off this year's Legend Has It series. soulinstereo.com/2025/12/albu...

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