Freddie Gibbs, “$oul $old $eparately.” We’ve seen a lot of rappers reflect on the superficiality of stardom and the lack of happiness it often brings over the last few years. On his fifth solo album, $oul $old $eparately, Freddie Gibbs opts instead to examine the cost of attaining success and stardom.…

“All that glitters isn’t always gold,” so the saying goes. Expensive Pain, the fifth studio album from Meek Mill, rides largely on the idea that money can’t buy happiness. While the album still indulges in the luxurious lifestyle someone of Meek’s status can enjoy, the curtain is often drawn back…

A bold and bittersweet closing chapter for one of the greatest rappers of all time, the long-awaited album from DMX, Exodus, comes a little over a month and a half after his death. His first release in nine years (following 2012’s Undisputed) and his first on Def Jam since Grand Champ, Exodus is…

Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo is back with his fourth studio album, A Gangsta’s Pain, just a year following 2020’s Time Served. The album’s title might lead listeners to observe it in a similar light to that of Benny The Butcher’s Burden of Proof—presenting itself as a concept album examining the impact of the street life. A…