HeyJaredJon Barlas
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 17, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Complex
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 31, 2026
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The 20 Best Mac Miller Projects, Ranked (opens the original)
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It's very rare you see an artist evolve in the ways Mac Miller did. Mac, real name Malcolm James McCormick, started out as a boom-bap-adjacent punchline rapper. Inspired by Big L, you could see his influences on his sleeve. But you could also see the sweat—early on he was a rapper obsessed with improvement, even if the early years, critically, were bumpy. He got labeled part of the frat rap era, then his commercial debut was mostly critically panned, notably by Pitchfork which gave the album a 1
The 20 Best Ken Carson Songs of All Time (opens the original)
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Hip-hop is a genre of micro-genres and scenes, and there is one rap collective, Opium, whose sound—loud, industrial, primal—has become so irresistible to certain artists and listeners that it threatens to swallow the genre itself. Playboi Carti is the leader, with his sophomore album Whole Lotta Red being the album that coalesced the wide-ranging, insular sounds of internet music and rap and pressed them into something denser and more primal—pent-up tension, isolation, all of it compacted into o
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