Lyricism is the backbone of hip hop. Although there are a ton of rappers who aren’t saying a gotdamn thing, there are those who are exceptionally gifted at putting words together over a beat. And with so many songs dropping during any given month, we feel that those rhymes that combine lyrical dexterity and cleverness with verbal gymnastics should be celebrated. Enter: Verse of the Month.
Past winners have included Black Thought, Kendrick Lamar, André 3000, J.I.D and Phonte. And for November, Jay-Z takes the win for his closing verse on Meek Mill’s “What’s Free.”
Up until the 30th, there was a head-to-head battle between Benny the Butcher and J.I.D with the Griselda shooter having a strong advantage — but then Jay-Z came in at the eleventh hour and screwed everything up.
After letting Rick Ross and Meek Mill get their verses off, Hov stepped up to the plate and proceeded to knock it out of the park with his best performance of the year. Over the same Richard Evans sample used on The Notorious B.I.G.’s “What’s Beef,” the 49-year-old emcee is in complete control as he attacks racism, flaunts his wealth, puts a stop to the media’s attempts at separating him and Kanye despite their political differences, taps Trump on the chin, offers a blueprint to freedom, and much more.
If you want to go from a 1980s video arcade to a dystopian world of 2088 with a pit stop in 2025, you can get there by riding Arcade Knights’ authentic ’80s synths on “Neon Dreamers” and the album it ends, Cyber Hack.
The amount of musical knowledge that AL99 has obtained in his 25 years on Earth is more than most people can hope for in a lifetime.
Tim Benson shows this in the video for his new positive hip-hop track, where he sings that you can “choose to smile.”
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With her rich, vibrant R&B voice, Wadena is the perfect artist to put out an anthem for strong women that fuses R&B with hip-hop and trap.
Bast from Crystal Fighters took some time out to tell us more about their debut LP and what they have planned in the future.
Vivek Pandya is an artist bringing something new to the world of music.
In his new throwback track, “A Lil Bit,” positive rapper Ken, The Admin serves up more than a little bit of good vibes.
Travis Scott transformed rap’s sound and left his mark on sneaker culture. Now, as he enters a new chapter, the question is whether he can dominate everything else too.
Long after Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion died, Kynkra fell in love with music and realized that nobody was making the kind of music that he liked to listen to.
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