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Chicago rapper formed a new band — 93PUNX — to perform music that isn't hip-hop, and chose to cover a Cranberries' song on the anniversary of Dolores O'Riordan's death
And more trends that defined the year in music
This year saw releases from rap's biggest names, but it still felt like a changing of the guard for the genre
From deepfakes to the technocratic Deep State, this was an extremely anxiety-riddled year
2018 was all about bold new voices breaking out of the margins and being heard — from Latin-pop party-starters to feminist guitar heroes to a new school of hip-hop revolutionaries.
Rapper reaches out blindly on Twitter to the songwriting legend for reasons that are currently unclear
The video for the 'Kamikaze' cut is pretty much one long fight scene
Grammy nomination success of Donald Glover's "This Is America" and Drake's "God's Plan" can be attributed, in part, to their unmissable visual components
Billed as "A Film by Noname," the Chicago rapper releases her first ever visual for a standout cut from this year's 'Room 25'
"My Own Thing" is vintage Chance, while "The Man Who Has Everything" is a melancholy Christmas song
