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Upon release, the album immediately dominated the new cycle, with Lamar’s latest record simultaneously serving as a love letter to West Coast hip-hop, a treatise on integrity, hypocrisy and celebrity, and a victory rap for his ruthless 2024. The past weekend also brought along a 10-year anniversary reissue of Nicki Minaj ‘s The Pinkprint, Juice WRLD ‘s final posthumous album ( The Party Never Dies) and new releases from Ice Cube( Man Down), Wizkid( Morayo) and Kenny Mason( Angel Eyes). An early standouts features one of her mentors, Ab-Soul, who puts one of the sharpest pens in rap to the test on the hard-hitting “Short Temper.” Don’t let the butterfly neck tattoo fool you, as Yoshi goes toe-to-toe with the lyrical savant while detailing her explosive rage.
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