Check out this week’s Top 10. This week on the charts, K-Pop supergroup BTS has earned their third No. 1 album within less than one year. With Map of the Soul: Persona, BTS pushes 230,000 equivalent album units in their first week of United States sales, with 196,000 accounting for pure album sales. It becomes the third album that BTS places at the top in …
The Afropunk festival is fast becoming a global entity. It’s no secret, the Afropunk festival isn’t a close-knit community gathering anymore. Somewhere along the way, the organizers got the itch to expand their brand on a global scale – outside the nascent festival grounds in Brooklyn. Around this time every year, Afropunk announces its intentions to the world. In the year 2019, those …
A testament to all that makes him such a fascinating anomaly in our hip-hop/R&B landscape, “Ventura” is an emphatic return to form for the multi-faceted Anderson .Paak. As if you didn’t know by now, Anderson .Paak is not one for convention. Unsatisfied with releasing just one album over the the course of six months, the multi-faceted artist has brought us …
Anderson .Paak and J.Cole teamed up on “Oxnard.” At the tail end of 2018, Anderson .Paak released his long-awaited follow up to Malibu, Oxnard. The album was produced by Dr. Dre and had a ton of big features, including J. Cole on the song “Trippy.” While both artists operate within hip-hop, they have very different styles, but their song together still seemed like …
Dr. Dre is living up to that “All In A Day’s Work” mentality. The Chronic and 2001 are widely heralded as two of hip-hop’s most celebrated bodies of work, the foundation for Dr. Dre’s legendary status. Yet his third album, Compton, seldom gets the merit it deserves. Dre’s third studio album, released in the summer of 2016, found Dre assembling a new team of trusted collaborators, …
