Black Milk
Curtis Cross, who records as Black Milk, spent his teens as Slum Village's in-house producer before anyone had told him he was too young to be anyone's in-house anything. That apprenticeship set the shape of his catalog: sample-forward boom-bap that gradually made room for live instrumentation, anchored by his four-piece band Nat Turner. From Detroit's west side, he has built a discography running from 2005's Sound of the City through 2018's Fever and into a recent streak of releases (Food From the Gods, The Recipe, BLURS), with a new album called CEREMONIAL due in May 2026. His collaborator list reads like a reference bibliography of two decades in hip-hop: J Dilla, Danny Brown, Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, Pete Rock, Robert Glasper, and, improbably, Jack White. The sound carries the fingerprints of the city that raised him—Dilla's swing, the clubs that played Kraftwerk alongside soul and funk—but the assembly is unmistakably his.
Albums (27)
12 tracks CEREMONIAL
22 tracks BLURS
4 tracks The Recipe
22 tracks Food From the Gods
22 tracks Pt. 01
12 tracks Everybody Good?
18 tracks Pt. 02
11 tracks DiVE EP
12 tracks FEVER
5 tracks Sunday Outtakes
10 tracks The Rebellion Sessions
19 tracks Tronic + Bonus Instrumentals
12 tracks If There's A Hell Below Instrumentals
12 tracks If There's A Hell Below
9 tracks Glitches In The Break
13 tracks No Poison No Paradise
12 tracks Synth Or Soul
10 tracks Black and Brown Instrumentals
10 tracks Black and Brown
12 tracks Album of the Year
5 tracks 7
11 tracks The Set Up
16 tracks Caltroit
19 tracks Popular Demand Instrumentals
17 tracks Popular Demand
7 tracks Broken Wax
16 tracks Sound of the City
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