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True Laurels: Best of 2025 (YouTube)

Best Songs of 2025 (Spotify)

Best Songs of 2025 (Apple Music)

‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his home town, race, police and art | Black US culture | The Guardian

Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony: Leaflets / A Written Testimony: Power at the Rate of My Dreams / A Written Testimony: Mars, the Inhabited Planet Album Review | Pitchfork

Writing to Liberate Yourself | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dev Hynes Interview for GQ

See Baltimore arts through a native son in the new book 'No Sense in Wishing' : NPR

Politics and Prose Talk With Hanif Abdurraqib

Lawrence Burney on How Baltimore, VICE, and Hip-Hop DVDs Shaped His Writing | Victory Light Ep. 132

Lawrence Burney and Brandon Jinx Jenkins - Weekday Night Live at P&T | Podcast on Spotify

Writer Lawrence Burney On How Regional Rap Debates Made Him Examine 'Country-ness'

One Simple Trick for Getting Your Teen Daughter to Talk to You

Sparkheem: Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25

Turnstile Cover Story for Pitchfork

Justsmile Magazine - Carmelo and Kiyan Anthony — Like Father, Like Son

Let Me Show You How to Bip: Tracing the Origins of Hip-Hop’s Favorite New Word

Vybz Kartel is reclaiming his throne

Rediscovered: Dead Prez, ‘Let’s Get Free’

On Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’, The Hardest Diss Song Is A History Lesson

Hugh Mundell: Africa Must Be Free by 1983

André De Shields Made It To the Top With Patience, Grace—And a Whole Lot of Talent

Lionel Boyce Is the Secret Sauce

True Laurels: Best of 2024

True Laurels: Best of 2024 on Apple Music

True Laurels: Best of 2024 (Spotify)

Farewell to The Crown, a sanctuary for Baltimore’s underground music scene

The Drake/Kendrick Lamar Beef Has a Winner. Where Do We Go From Here?

The Flattening of Bob Marley’s Radicalism

Ramy Youssef is Ready For Some Hard Conversations

Tierra Whack Takes Her Mask Off

Cover Story: Kelela — True Laurels

Stavros Halkias Can Tell When You're Lying

An Appreciation of Project Pat, a Quiet Forefather of Modern Day Rap

Linda Martell: Color Me Country

Burna Boy Sounds Creatively Exhausted

True Laurels: Best of 2023 (Spotify)

True Laurels: Best of 2023 (Apple Music)

The Culture Report: How the ‘I Got A Monster’ documentary chooses community over cops

True Laurels: Best Baltimore + DMV Songs of 2022 (Spotify)

True Laurels: Best Songs of 2022 (Spotify)

Revisiting Tha Bloc

Along The Parkway Episode 1: Kelow LaTesha and Baby Kahlo