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RuPaul is a gifted musician whose work gets overlooked by critics partially because of his considerable television presence hosting The RuPaul Show and RuPaul’s Drag Race, partially because of his exclusive appeal to a specialized niche market.
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Anybody who can parse two consecutive words on the new Young Thug record should pursue a career in speech therapy.
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Kendrick Lamar may not be the Best Rapper Alive, but except for a few thesaurus users from the hip-hop underground he may very well be the most intellectual.
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Since August 2013, the British techno label PC Music has been regularly releasing a large number of definitely strange, possibly satiric, stunningly original songs online.
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Let’s take a moment to examine Josh Groban’s voice, shall we?
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Remember when chillwave was considered a genre? Remember when a select number of elite, unrelated, alternative-identified musicians making slow, synthy loungetronica were considered the future of Western civilization?
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Whoever declared guitar-rock dead way back when forgot to tell Sleater-Kinney.
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Say what you will about Luke Bryan, but you have to admit the dude knows how to motherfuckin’ party.
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The Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP, out since January, is the second Aphex Twin release in a recent period of renewed activity.
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Put on the new D’Angelo album and you’ll discover fifty-six minutes of music completely hidden behind a veil of static.
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One day far in the future, when Nicki Minaj will have produced maybe three or four more albums and sold tens of billions more, she will release a greatest hits package, and what a wonderful day that will be.
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A sizzling keyboard riff slides out of nowhere and bounces around for a few seconds before a metallic snare drum comes in and a woman starts rapping.