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The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Aminé, Latto, and Rico Nasty.

As we always do about this time, XXL collects the week's hip-hop releases in one place for your listening pleasure. This week ...

See how we broke down every track from the country superstar's fourth album.

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