NYPD is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet.

Loaded question is going to get loaded answers but:

Marxist-identifying people who like to glorify oppressive regimes, usually Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China. Fascists disguised as communists.

I know this criticism depends a lot on ones personal views on a couple things, but: Travis Scott played a small (but not 0) part in the Astroworld deaths, and he doesn’t deserve interpersonal hate for his role in the tragedy. That Said, Dave Chappelle deserves every ounce of hate for his recent controversy, and him saying “I FORGIVE MYSELF” as the crescendo of the song ruins PARASAIL for me, and detracts a handful of enjoyment from the album overall.

But, it’s a good album. My expectations of Travis Scott tend to stay pretty low, but he usually handily exceeds them. MY EYES is prob his best verse since Antidote. The opener is great, and TELEKINESIS reminds me of 3500, where Travis and two features all bring the absolute best out of each other.

Any recommendations from true up-and-comers? I feel like even folks who I’d consider the current “new school” have been active for several years now, like JID, Saba, Smino, JPEG, etc. (billy woods’ career has certainly bloomed recently but of course he’s got nearly 20 years in the game at this point.)

I can think of redveil and Paris Texas for sure, plus Chika’s current album rollout is crazy. I really thought she was done making music, but now she’s 3/3 on singles and the Freddie Gibbs song is an instant classic.

Snotty Nose Rez Kids have also been releasing music for a few years now, but I feel like that whole Vancouver-area Indigenous scene definitely feels like a fresh new locus of hiphop. Kimmortal and Dioganhdih being a part of that too.

Of course part of the situation too is that the barrier of entry to making/publishing music is so low that even new names have music out there from when they were like 16. redveil, Paris Texas, and Chika have all released short projects throughout the past few years but it’s hard to call that an established career.