PinnedHanif Abdurraqib·Dec 30, 2025115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 (This Time, With A Short Essay About Brian Wilson.)Hello, and welcome back. If you’ve been here before, over the years, you know that — at least in recent years — this is where I break down…A response icon32A response icon32
PinnedHanif Abdurraqib·Dec 31, 2023108 Favorite Albums Of 2023Ok! You survived another bout with linear time and have arrived here, once again. The number is a touch bigger than it was last year, which…A response icon31A response icon31
PinnedHanif Abdurraqib·Dec 30, 2022100 Favorite Albums of 2022Ok! Hello and happy Making It To The End Of The Year. The first thing you might notice this time around is that I have, for the first time…A response icon7A response icon7
PinnedHanif Abdurraqib·Dec 30, 202183 Favorite Albums Of 2021The first thing you might notice this time around is that the arbitrary number of albums in this years-old tradition has dropped just a tad…A response icon3A response icon3
PinnedHanif Abdurraqib·Dec 30, 202093 Favorite Albums Of 2020Well, it seems this number keeps jumping higher and higher. There was a clearer method of listening this year, with more time at home to…A response icon9A response icon9
Hanif Abdurraqib·Dec 30, 2024123 Favorite Albums Of 2024Ok! Congrats on surviving yet another bout with linear time and arriving here. The number this year, as predicted, is larger. So, if you’ve…A response icon20A response icon20
Hanif Abdurraqib·Jan 28, 2021On Loren Reed’s “Emo Prison Bars”If you are a person who has ever been incarcerated, or if you are a person who communicates with incarcerated folks by phone with any kind…A response icon1A response icon1
InGENbyHanif Abdurraqib·Nov 27, 2020When Network TV Censored ‘Do the Right Thing’As a child, I knew Radio Raheem died but not how. Only later did I realize a trash can through a window was a reasonable response.A response icon4A response icon4
InGENbyHanif Abdurraqib·Oct 29, 2020Death Has Become a Political PropAfter so many months of casualties, the only deaths we talk about are the ones that carry a messageA response icon1A response icon1
InGENbyHanif Abdurraqib·Oct 19, 2020As Always, Hip-Hop Will Get Us Through This Political ChaosFrom Lil Baby to Megan Thee Stallion, rap has defined the activism — and uncertainty — of the Trump era
