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                <title>2016: The Year in Review</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[When the history books are written, music will probably not be the first thing anyone remembers about 2016. Nevertheless, the music was excellent—memorable and meaningful enough to grant us aesthetic reprieve from a world tilting more toward chaos. 
 
 In the music we loved, we found unrestrained glee, soul-stirring explorations of love, reminders to stick close&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Chance the Rapper’s Ascendent “Ultralight Beam” Verse Transcended the Year’s Darkness</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: 400;">For all his boyish charm, Chance the Rapper is painfully aware of violence and death. He was 18 years old when he watched his close friend, 19-year-old Rodney Kyles Jr., die after being stabbed in street fight, a trauma he recollects on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1AOoHSijIk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Acid Rain"</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: "I seen it happen, I seen it happen, I</span>&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>The 50 Best Albums of 2016</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[There's been no shortage of pessimism about 2016—a year that was plagued with fear, hatred, and confusion. In music, that ugliness was often confronted head-on, whether it was Beyoncé calling for a formation against rising tides, or YG offering Democrats an alternate slogan against Donald Trump. There was plenty to mourn over within music itself,&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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