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August 2024

  • Vultures 2 artwork.

    Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

    The lyrics veer from nihilistic provocation to drunken messages to his ex-wife, and the music is equally erratic and confused
  • Killer Mike in a white t-shirt, arms raised, on stage in Quebec City, July 2024.

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Killer Mike: Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints review – hard-won life lessons

    The Run the Jewels rapper follows up last year’s Grammys-sweeping Michael with an album addressing a tumultuous few months
  • Tekashi 6ix9ine surrounded by heavy security while shopping on Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles.

    ‘Your favourite rappers are only alive because of our sacrifices’: the secret life of rap bodyguards

    From 2Pac in the 90s to XXXTentacion and more in recent years, murder is frequent in the US rap scene. The men trying to protect the artists explain the physical and psychological toll

July 2024

  • A young man wearing a teal t-shirt smiles at the camera

    Four arrested in shooting death of Florida rapper Julio Foolio

  • Tightly choreographed … Sampa the Great on stage at Womad.

    Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans

  • LL Cool J.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for LL Cool J

  • Childish Gambino

    Childish Gambino: Bando Stone and the New World review – a frenetic farewell

  • Ice Spice: Y2K! review – a masterclass in outrageous party trap

  • Mustard: Faith of a Mustard Seed review – lacking in spice

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Ice Spice: Y2K! review – wilfully trashy wordplay from wily new rap star

  • Mercury prize 2024: Charli xcx, the Last Dinner Party and Beth Gibbons among nominees

  • Megan Thee Stallion review – positivity bootcamp with a rapper on fire

  • One to watch
    One to watch: Bad With Phones

  • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell – podcast

  • Drake’s Toronto mansion seriously flooded amid record-breaking storms

  • Georgia: judge in Young Thug racketeering case removed

  • Wireless festival review – Ice Spice, Asake and Doja Cat triumph on gappy bill

  • Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

  • Australian critic's picks
    Critic’s pick: Agung Mango, the genre-smashing rapper leaping through time and space

  • TV review
    Kings From Queens: The Run-DMC Story review – incredibly honest and raw TV

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