In terms of hip-hop bangers, 2019 was good to us—from Lizzo to Drake to City Girls, we were given plenty of windows-down music to whip to (so much, in fact, that we were set for fall and winter too).

READ ALOUD in court, the words sounded like a confession: “Fuck the judge…this that mob life…cookin’ white brick.” Not long ago the defendant, Jeffery Williams, was rapping these lines on stage. Now ...