5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (704+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: LOCKED IN by Nemzzz On LOCKED IN, Nemzzz prices every relationship against the work and never apologizes for it. When Dizzee Rascal’s Boy in da Corner swept up the 2003 Mercury Prize in September, American radio…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (798+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Growing Pains by Dono A Cincinnati singer built her first album around the counsel of the women who raised her, and it is one of the year’s best R&B debuts. “This Little Light of…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (65+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Land of the Neon Sun by Kam Franklin After fifteen years fronting The Suffers, Kam Franklin made a solo debut about the arrangement the music business offers young women, and she describes it from the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (66+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: DILLAGENCE II by Busta Rhymes & J Dilla Given a stack of beats by the producer he trusted most before the man died in 2006, Busta Rhymes waited almost twenty years and came back rapping with some…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Criminal Migraine by Ice-T On his first solo rap album in twenty years, Ice-T raps about street survival, betrayal, and a violent internal life that decades of legitimate success have done nothing to quiet. He…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (43+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: PAELLA! by Stoic A type-beat maker from Staten Island quit nursing school, won a Grammy for Doechii, and gathered various guests for his masterful solo debut. Favorite Track(s): “FREEFALL,” “HAIRCUT,” “GANG SAMBA”...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (62+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: The Documentary III by The Game Hip-hop has spent twenty-one years agreeing that The Game can rap. The Documentary III is what it sounds like when agreement and investment never meet. Slightly Below Average (★★½☆☆) Favorite…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (51+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: The Price of Clarity by Ransom The New Jersey veteran shades his usual technical menace with grief, marriage, and an admission he had been sitting on for years. Favorite Track(s): “Good Mournings,” “The Temptations,” “The…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (774+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Repeat Repeat Repeat by Paul Wall & Termanology Paul Wall and Termanology’s third album together is a hustle record about debt, and both men rap better here when they’re saying who they owe than when they’re…...