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Rodney Carmichael

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  • caption: J. Cole, onstage in Oakland this summer, refracted hip-hop through an absurdist lens on <em>KOD</em>.

    The Best Rap Albums Of 2018 Were Totally Surreal

    Our list of the year's best hip-hop is an encapsulation of a year awash in trolls and tabloid fodder, grief and grit and escapist fantasy, and also an attempt to extract meaning from the chaos.