The best rap songs of 2021
If you're not super, super on top of the latest rap, big to indie to very indie, this will help: The POW Best Rap Songs of 2021, "the best rap from an otherwise awful year," with lengthy write-ups of their top 50, lots of fun writing throughout.
Lots of fun writing throughout.
In my experience, when people first listen to RXK Nephew, they assume he’s joking. But his music is constantly prodding them: Are you sure? It’s funny to juxtapose theories about the government writing the Bible with complaints about American Idol, but is it really so ridiculous that the way a host of the century’s most popular game show talks to black people might bother him? Can you not picture the Rochester rapper pleading with his grandmother to leave the church that can’t answer his questions—or her bitterly telling a young Nephew that she can’t help him with his algebra homework?