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Olivier Lafontant

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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Olivier Lafontant

    kllhhr: “skin” (opens the original)

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    Summer is dying and I tell myself I hate the cold, but with each little gust of wind I’ve been feeling slight jolts of anticipation. The warning shots of winter have made kllhhr’s “skin,” a barren, phantasmic transmission from the other side of grief, feel like home. A glum theremin melody, a swirl of light piano, and a voice too stuporous to be feigned appear one by one like slowly dissolving mirages. It’s addictive in the way that staying in bed on a bad day is addictive; I haven’t

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Olivier Lafontant

    Ken Carson: xperiment - cartunez (opens the original)

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    No one moment can be solely attributed to an artist’s rise, but I remember when it felt like everything suddenly fell into place for Ken Carson. Four summers ago, just a few weeks after his second album, X, came out, he turned a sidestage at Rolling Loud Miami into his little corner of the world. He galloped back and forth in his socks; he whipped his baby dreads and puffed his chest out; he rapped along to his songs for a few syllables at a time, leaving it to the crowd to fill in the gaps. But

  3. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Olivier Lafontant

    Denzel Curry / Kenneth Blume: ii (opens the original)

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    Most rappers and beatmakers who manage to stick around for more than a few years, build a dedicated following, and make a healthy living off of music eventually hit a wall. They may ask themselves, “Why am I still doing this?,” searching for the fire they had in their belly when barely anyone knew their name. Music becomes business and business can become tedious. In the background of ii, the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s Unlocked, Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats—my fault, Kenneth Blume—are reck

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Olivier Lafontant

    twentythree and the 6 (opens the original)

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    twentythree has lived through some Project X shit a few times over. “I have this one memory from when I was 16, it was one of the craziest house parties I've been to,” the Toronto rapper-producer tells me while chiefing a joint on FaceTime. “It was a little bit outside of Toronto. The house is packed, everyone's super ratchet, I see guns on the table, everyone’s smoking weed and there's bad bitches. They're blasting the music really hard. At some moment, I remember the whole house was kind of sh

  5. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Olivier Lafontant

    Future: Monster (opens the original)

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    “You’re, um, in a public relationship now,” radio host Angie Martinez tells him coyly, toying with the bracelet on her wrist. “How does that feel?” “It feel good,” Future replies unenthusiastically, “going from me being with different girls every day to coolin’, being with one.” He hides his expression behind sunglasses, as usual, but his body language could only be described as lax. “Wait, you went from different girls every day to just one?” Martinez asks. “Every day!” Future shoots back. “Roc

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