Justin G.
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New Music Friday, August 7: Pooh Shiesty Ships From Custody, Ravyn Lenae Floats, Dinner Party Finally Arrives
This week's New Music Friday runs defiant rap, grown-and-expensive R&B, and the Dinner Party soul album six years in the making.
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Uzi's Birthday EP Isn't a Surprise: It's What Independence Sounds Like
Eight tracks, no features, no announcement, and for most of day one, no Spotify. HitsCulture on why Lil Uzi Vert's birthday EP is a business document before it is a music one.
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Rochelle Jordan Handed 'Through The Wall' to the People Who Built House Music
Rochelle Jordan is stretching Through The Wall across five remix EPs, and the first name on the list is Ron Trent. That choice is the whole story.
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90,000 Machines a Day: Why Hip-Hop Still Needs Human Ears
Over half of Deezer's daily uploads are now AI. Why human-led curation is the firewall protecting hip-hop and R&B from the flood.
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6LACK Is Still Releasing Videos From an Album You Already Heard. That Is the Point.
The "I Guess" video is the fifth visual from an album that came out ten weeks ago. In a streaming economy built on release-week detonations, 6LACK is running the opposite play, and September explains why.
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The Bots Never Slept, and Spotify Looked Away: RBX Refiles His Fraud Case
RBX refiled his streaming-fraud suit against Spotify, alleging the platform bans the little guy for fake plays while waving through bot-inflated superstar catalogs.
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Rakim to Nas to Kendrick: Five Artists Who Could Be the Next Great Lyricist
Rakim changed where a rhyme could sit. Nas turned the verse into reportage. Kendrick made the album an argument. Five artists have a legitimate claim to what comes next, and HitsCulture argues each case, counterargument included.
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Meek Mill Made a Sequel to a Song That Stopped Belonging to Him
Meek Mill's "Nightmares To Dreams" flips his 2012 anthem and reverses its structure. HitsCulture on why that choice is honest, why it costs him, and how a Nike dispute explains the whole release.
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The Label Let Debbie Go: Her Voice Went Out and Got Everybody Back
She sang on a number one album, lost her deal, and rebuilt an audience from her bedroom. Now Warner is back and "More Of You" is here. Inside one of the best voices in soul music.
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New Music Friday: Jacquees and Ari Lennox Set the Mood, Cardi B and NLE Choppa Light It Up
Jacquees drops a 22-track epic, Cardi B returns with her first song of the year, Ari Lennox taps the soul, and a soul newcomer steals the week. Our human read on New Music Friday.
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Ari Lennox Keeps Neo-Soul Moving Forward on "Hookah Baby"
Ari Lennox introduces "Vacancy: Late Checkout" with "Hookah Baby," carrying neo-soul lineage into a playful, modern R&B setting.
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A Repost Built Ogi's Career. Now sunandmoon Is Betting It Can Happen Twice.
Ogi has a career because PJ Morton hit repost. Now she and producer Anoop D'Souza have a new duo, a debut single almost nobody wrote about, and a bet that human ears still decide what breaks.
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