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1 month ago | 
stereogum.com | Peter Berry
If you ask any rapper, basically ever, they’re underrated. No one gave them their props for inventing that style everybody uses. They paved the way for your favorite rapper to do that shit they do now, and also, they’re your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper. And they’ve got the biggest dick, which really isn’t talked about enough.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
udiscovermusic.com | Peter Berry
You can’t understand the fire and brimstone of DMX’s most famous songs unless you also take into account his moments of quiet grace. On each of his first six albums, DMX released prayers that were as lucid as they were jarring – diametric opposites to the bullet-riddled euphoria elsewhere. Abandoning his typically pummelling instrumentals, DMX would wade into the eternity of the microphone with a naked vulnerability, pleading to the sky for guidance.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com | Peter Berry
Peter A. Berry24 November 2024 at 12:57 pm·6-min readMidway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mandate: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a self-fulfilling mandate.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Peter Berry
GNX Is Buick’s Chance to Be Cool AgainAutomakers are having a bit of an identity crisis this week. One abandons its heritage for an avant-garde EV future while another that seemingly just …
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
blbrd.cm | Peter Berry
After leading her LSU Tigers team to an easy win over the Northwestern State Lady Demons on Friday (Nov. 8), Flau’jae Johnson is facing off a slightly more challenging opponent: an abrupt weather change.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
stereogum.com | Peter Berry |El Cousteau
In the history of annoying journalism clichés, no one’s ever embodied a “rapper’s rapper” as much as Freddie Gibbs. When he’s not sharing vivid D-Boy recollections or laughing at fallen enemies, he’ll make time to own it. Otherwise, critics like me will prescribe it for him, noting a gravelly baritone that emits intensity and the way his omni-directional flow agility is a perfect conduit for bars that can be as quippy as they are poignant.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
udiscovermusic.com | Peter Berry
Yasiin Bey never embraced the conscious rap label. But no one embodied it quite like him. He came on the scene with Talib Kweli as Black Star, a duo that dropped their eponymous debut album in 1998. Merging Native Tongues aesthetics with themes of Afrocentrism, the project established Bey and Kweli as streetwise poets with a message – twin messiahs of so-called rap consciousness.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
falmouthpacket.co.uk | Peter Berry
After a soggy start to the day the weather cleared in time for the competitors to take part in Falmouth Rotary Club’s 11th annual Run Mawnan event. More than 230 runners of all ages gathered at Carwinion Playing Field to take part in the races on three different routes through the village. Sammy Jo of Embrace Dance Fitness got everyone in the mood with a lively warm up before the start at 10am, and Mawnan WI and other village organisations ran sideshows to entertain the spectators.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Peter Berry
As a born aesthete, Tyler, The Creator’s always thought in shapes and colors rather than hard numbers. He leaves that stuff to folks like Silent House Studios president Alex Reardon, a creative director he’s worked with since Igor. On Sunday night (Oct. 27), fans in L.A.’s Intuit Dome saw the pair’s synergy unfold for Tyler’s listening event for Chromakopia, his eighth studio album that dropped this morning.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
stereogum.com | Peter Berry
It would be easy to call out GloRilla’s Kirk Franklin feature as the moment she got back to her church choir girl roots. But that would be ignoring her core function as a minister for disaffected baddies.
