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Album Reviews: Best of 2017 Edition

By: Alex Bloom and Neil MacAlister Best album of 2017: DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar Crowning Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. as album of the year feels almost too easy. With every project, Lamar has proved, consistently, to be the greatest rapper of his generation.  His albums have topped year-end lists with ease. DAMN. is certainly Lamar’s strangest album to date, incorporating a variety of musical styles and branching away from the classic gangsta rap or experimental jazz/funk fusion of his past work. Instead it takes the listener through a sprawling yet coherent journey that branches from the hard-knocking, braggadocious “DNA.” to the…

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