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Five Great Summer Albums that Hip-Hop Heads Might Have Missed

September 10, 2019 - Created by Brandon Hill

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With the staggering volume of music that’s being released every month, it’s next to impossible for any one person to keep up with it all. I guarantee that there was at least one release this summer that you haven’t heard but would’ve loved. We sat the CentralSauce Collective down to focus in on 5 excellent […]

June Spotlight: Caleb Giles’ Under the Shade

August 16, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

caleb giles album review

Our Essential & Unheard project for July is Caleb Giles’ third solo album, Under the Shade. It is imbued with the energy of summer—a stand-in for the season where white t-shirts become the de facto wardrobe choice, black jeans are only worn by the brave, and the heat sauntering off walls and emanating up out of asphalt is the most immediate feeling. The sun is the antagonist, the album’s name reflecting the peace found in separation from that oppressive heat that hangs longer and heavier in the summer months.

May Spotlight: Damon Locks’ Where Future Unfolds

June 13, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

damon locks Black Monument Ensemble

Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of May, and read on for our featured E&U project of the month from Damon Locks and the Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble.

April Spotlight: Pivot Gang’s You Can’t Sit With Us

May 23, 2019 - Created by Carter Fowler

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Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from April, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: PIVOT GANG.

March Spotlight: Little Simz’s Grey Area

April 22, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

little simz grey area

GREY Area is an artist mostly finding her way through something not quite palpable, but still omnipresent. She raps painfully aware of the indefinable future, and the confusion of your mid-20s, but she does so in a way that casts brighter shades of color than any rapper this year has been able to evoke.

February Spotlight: Syrup from B. Cool-Aid

March 13, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

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Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from February, and keep reading for a spotlight on our stand-out artists of the month: Awhlee and Pink Siifu, otherwise known as B. Cool Aid.

January Spotlight: Fly Anakin and Tuamie’s “Emergency Raps 4”

February 12, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

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Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of January, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artists of the month: Fly Anakin and Tuamie.

December Spotlight: MIKE’s “War in my Pen”

January 12, 2019 - Created by Edward Alexander

MIKE war in my pen

Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of December, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: MIKE.

November Spotlight: Joy Postell’s “Diaspora”

December 13, 2018 - Created by Carter Fowler

Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from November, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: Baltimore native Joy Postell.

October Spotlight: Mick Jenkins’ “Pieces of a Man”

November 16, 2018 - Created by Carter Fowler

mick jenkins pieces of a man

Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” songs of October, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: Chicago’s own Mick Jenkins.

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