Hip-hop icon Mos Def recently claimed that Drake isn't hip-hop but pop. It set the internet ablaze. But was he right? Let's chat!
We kick off the first volume of Compilation 2 of our Musicphiles podcast by taking a quick look back at some of our favorite projects to drop in 2016 and giving our overall rating for the year. Then we list our top 10 most anticipated albums of 2017 from artists like Andre 3000, Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, Japandroids, Drake, Kanye West, and many more. We finish things off with a discussion about the latest release from Run the Jewels, Tory Lanez, and others.
Just 24 hours after it was announced that rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) would play late jazz legend Thelonious Monk in a new biopic, the artists' estate came out condemning the project.