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We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

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I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

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Nearly two decades into one of K-pop’s most distinctive careers, Sunmi is doing what she once viewed as too risky, too heavy and, perhaps most consequentially, too revealing: releasing her full debut ...

It’s common that artists come to resent their most popular work, Kurt Cobain soon developed a distaste for Smells Like Teen Spirit and its chart-busing parent album, Nevermind, REM’s Michael Stipe ...

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