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Friday Roundup: Baby Keem and Lauryn Hill Remind Us To Honor Artist’s Humanity

Music fans are too comfortable demanding more than artists are able or willing to give.

Jun 5 • andrejgee

JAŸ-Z Channels His Inner Marlo Stanfield at The 2026 Roots Picnic

Taking the stage at this year’s Roots Picnic, JAŸ-Z reminded fans that his name is, indeed, his name, during a virtuosic performance.

Jun 4 • andrejgee

May 2026

Friday Roundup: Hip-Hop Is Dead Internet Discourse

Is our cultural zeitgeist the byproduct of an auction ground?

May 29 • andrejgee

So What Exactly Is Experimental Rap Anyway? I Asked 6 Rap Experts.

Artists, producers, and journalists speak to how useful the term is.

May 28 • andrejgee

Friday Roundup: MAGA is Using Drake and other Rap Artists for Digital Propaganda

Despite Drake's attempt to distance himself from ICE, they're "flooding the zone" with his art.

May 22 • andrejgee

Drake's 'Iceman' Is a Winning Formula And a Loser's Formula

The only thing that reminds you it’s not from 2016 is griping about 2024.

May 20 • andrejgee

Friday Roundup: Why Is Essence Retracting Pieces?

Seems like they're more concerned with ruffling celebrity feathers than doing journalism.

May 15 • andrejgee

Drake, at a Precipice

The numbers will be there regardless. But artistically, this album feels like an inflection point.

May 14 • andrejgee

Friday Roundup: Hip-Hop Media And The Violence Of “Power”

How laudable is power if it’s being wielded by and for the wrong people?

May 8 • andrejgee

Author Lambros Fatsis On UK Drill Rap (Basically) Being Illegal

His book ‘Policing the beats’ chronicles the UK's draconian policing of Black music scenes, including drill.

May 6 • andrejgee

Friday Roundup: Bill Ackman Buying UMG Would Be Disastrous For Free Expression

We don't need a Zionist who thinks "DEI is racist" overseeing our music.

May 1 • andrejgee

April 2026

What Function Does The Music Biopic Serve?

It feels like we're resigned to the music biopic being nothing more than a propagandistic money grab.

Apr 29 • andrejgee