2 Great New Experimental Hip-Hop Albums

Jazzy art rap, resistance poetry, and the Kunze Kode

I don’t go to dinner parties, but if I did and someone asked me about my profession, I’d probably say I’m a music and culture journalist.

“Oh, interesting. What kind of music are you writing about?”

A fair follow-up question, but one that’s hard for me to answer.

Because I wouldn’t want to bore my conversational partner, I’d risk sounding very generic in …