2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (970+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Waxing In Mecca by John Brown the Rapper & Da Beatminerz For a stretch in 2007, he was the King of the "Burbs, a White Rapper Show punchline. Two years in Mickey Factz's lyricism program later, John…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (978+ words) Shatter the Standards Mixtape Review: I Heard You Paint Houses by Conway the Machine & DJ Whoo Kid Conway rhymes over beats jacked from 50 Cent, Eminem, and Biggie while DJ Whoo Kid hollers across the top. The writing makes the borrowed…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (940+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Fortune & Glory by Paul Wall Paul Wall raps about money the way he always has, but the details have moved to crypto, the election, and cold plunges. It seems like Paul Wall is one of…...

6+ hour ago  (55+ words) Shatter the Standards The R&B of 2016, Ten Years On A special look back at the year R&B got strange. M'a funded her own Grammy nominee, Sean and Jhen" played a couple falling apart in real time, a military…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (977+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: The Way the Light Looks by Eligh x FAZE. ONE Forty-six and content with no repeats, Eligh writes fatherhood and recovery plainer than the nanobot and matrix conceits he hangs beside them. A rapper of…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (897+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: in this body by Sparklmami Cut live and mostly in single takes, Sparklmami's debut moves between Spanish and English over a band steeped in boleros and 1970s Brazilian jazz. The records came first. Ariella Granados's mother…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (853+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: THEE IMMACULATE by Thurz & 14 KT Thurz is a brawler and a block-level storyteller, and his peaks have real teeth, a murdered ice cream man, plus a pawned watch and a flat-out colorism verse. 14 KT's single…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (815+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: A Little Bit of Me by Mica Millar Cut live with a band of soul, blues, and jazz players in Provence, Mica Millar's second album moves between plainspoken desire and the language of the church....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (434+ words) Shatter the Standards The Uncensored Nature of Millie Jackson She never achieved a reputation in some countries on par with her popularity among American and British audiences, but Millie Jackson deserves far better than her status as a cult artist....

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (811+ words) Shatter the Standards James Anthony Carmichael Built the Records Everyone Else Sang On He turned a Tuskegee party band into a ballad machine and piano demos into number ones, and his name stayed in the small type the whole time....