Five Songs is a weekly series for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we each choose a new song we like—or don't!—and write about why it has our attention.
This week, we've got a weirdly banging song about grief from a rapper who's poised to take over, an power-pop anthem that mixes deep feeling with sly political protest, a colossal misstep from a once-great West Coast MC, and more.
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