Kris Ex
NPR Music contributor.
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Veteran Bay Area rapper re-emerges with snarling Black nationalism on an urgent and aggressive declaration of intent. -
A young Los Angeles rapper joins the storied tradition of great end-of-the-week, just-got-paid songs, with a quaint, warm jam full of small victories. -
With the notion of authorship dispatched as silly and inconsequential, the way has been paved for even greater corporate influence over hip-hop.
