Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let us fight through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, is better than it’s ever been. Not only are we able to go back and listen to all of our favorites, at the click of a button, there is also a ton of great music still being made by artists, young and veteran alike…if you know where to look.

To help with that task, we’ve created two playlists. One features more recent music—songs that have been released within the last year or so—while the other is throwback, focused on the ’80s and ’90s. We update each of these playlists regularly, so, if you like what you hear, subscribe to follow us on Spotify.

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Today, we celebrate the newer music. On May 12, B.o.B. released Ether, his first new album in 4 years. One of the album’s highlights is “Peace Piece,” where he and Big K.R.I.T. deconstruct the mantra of “Make America Great Again,” and ask exactly what does that mean? In his verse, B.o.B. highlights several periods in America’s past that certainly were not great. “Yeah, they say ‘let’s make America great again’/Except for the slavery and genocide/When we kill all the natives and steal their tribes/And the time we denied women’s rights/Talkin’ ’bout great/Like the AIDS outbreak?/Like when they brought crack cocaine to the hood?/Like when they brought heroin to the states?”

Big K.R.I.T. echoes these themes in his verse, though he focuses more on present day injustices. “Prison walls nowadays big biz/Give us dope then lock us up to get riches/Then send us out to a job we can’t get/You had that nigga flipped/Now you back in the system/That’s a cold game man, aww dog if there’s a God I pray she listening/The President don’t give a f*ck about us/The government don’t give a f*ck either/They talkin’ make America great again/I just wanna save my people.”

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