Wax Poetics goes nearly all hip hop for this issue – covering original game-changers and the best contemporary revisionists alike – with cover features on Nas, Danny Brown, Master P and his No Limit legacy, and Shabazz Palaces! Wax Poetics, tasked with following up their decade milestone issue, pulls that off brilliantly here. It's got one of the best, realest interviews with Nas we've ever read, a great look at Master P's No Limit and the Beats By The Pound production empire, a resurgent El-P, the legendary Kurtis Blow, Killer Mike, Oddisee, THEESatisfaction, Cities Aviv, modern jazz great Robert Glasper and much more! Magazine

Wax Poetics goes nearly all hip hop for this issue – covering original game-changers and the best contemporary revisionists alike – with cover features on Nas, Danny Brown, Master P and his No Limit legacy, and Shabazz Palaces! Wax Poetics, tasked with following up their decade milestone issue, pulls that off brilliantly here. It's got one of the best, realest interviews with Nas we've ever read, a great look at Master P's No Limit and the Beats By The Pound production empire, a resurgent El-P, the legendary Kurtis Blow, Killer Mike, Oddisee, THEESatisfaction, Cities Aviv, modern jazz great Robert Glasper and much more! Magazine

Once again, the Wire goes way past the ordinary – and opens the door to the kinds of sounds that keep our ears happy, and our record collections interesting year after year! In addition to a look at composer/producer Bobby Krlic, aka The Haxan Cloak, on the cover – the issue features articles on singer/songwriter Linda Smith, Angolan DJ Znobia, and electronic wizard Ariel Kalma – plus more on Univers Zero, Billy Bultheel, Lumpeks, Yosuhiro Moringa, John Pope, and the scene in Santiago! And as a great bonus, Kahil El'Zabar takes on the Invisible Jukebox – and the issue ends with the usual huge section of reviews. Magazine