Don’t have the time or wife to listen to rap like I used to but this Droogie Otis track with Killer Mike is fucking fire.
“Through the Wire” came on, dude wrapped a whole song about a catastrophic car accident with his jaw wired shut. Sucks that iconic stuff like that is marred by Kanye being a complete shit head.
still vividly remember the first time I saw that video and instantly fell in love, "man what a great perspective on life this dude Kayne has"
Wow. History made. Clipse just became the first hip-hop act ever to perform at the Vatican, backed by John Legend and the Voices of Free orchestra. They performed “The Birds Don’t Sing.”— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-09-14T04:29:20.919Z
got the notification the other day that my LGSEO vinyl was finally being shipped, forgot I even ordered that thing
Myka 9, Blu and Mono En Stereo - God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools Really like this one. Really reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on. Was thinking early J5 for a min.
Went to listen to the new Mobb Deep album and saw Mick Jenkins had a new one he dropped last week and ofc, as always, it absolutely rips. https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-murder-of-crows/1830085811
It's so hard to keep up with all releases. NPR's New Music Friday helps. Enjoy it while we have it...sigh Mobb Deep, Madi Diaz and the best new albums out Oct. 10 : All Songs Considered : NPR https://share.google/QVvxPwKRKu1IBIh5t
Have listened to about half of Infinite, Pour the Henny definitely my favorite track so far and in line with the traditional Mobb Deep sound. Prodigy verse in it is great and a bit sad, song is a different level than the rest
Liking more of the songs on second listen with a buzz, especially the 1 with Ghost and Rae. Do think the beats could hit harder but Havoc and Alchemist are hall of famers Pour the Henny is up there on great Mobb Deep songs. Reminded me of One Life by Last Emperor/Poetic, just a great tribute. RIP
Just popping in to say Black Thought has been doing it for like 40 years and is still amazing. Criminally underrated by most of the music world.
Big L to end this month Stove next month Nas and Preemo in December worlds burning but this has been a hell of a year for hip hop
New Big L today, liking it so far. A lot of recycled stuff with new beats but some stuff I haven’t heard. 2 left in the series, De La Soul I assume is next, then hopefully Nas has a big project to end it.
Tito Santana on this new WSG is such a good song. I don’t thing WSG has the ability to disappoint me. I know what I want and so does he
Any Danny Brown fans? I've been trying to get into him more, but a lot of the abstract stuff isn't for me. Wondering if I can get any song recs that are similar to Greatest Rapper Alive, Grown Up, 25 Bucks, and the great Ab-Soul song Terrorist Threats?
I've grown to really like Danny and Bruiser Wolf as well. Scaring the Hoes ('23 with JPEG) is a great Album
Danny has some great albums but I don’t listen a ton. It’s very mood specific stuff for me. Atrocity Exhibition probably belongs in a museum
Al gave Armand Hammer some sick beats once again just wish there were some moments where they let the beats breathe a bit
I just completed phase 1 of one of the nerdiest things I've done probably. Month or so ago, some guys were posting their top 25 albums from some site topsters and i tried to do mine for hip hop, but was forgetting so many albums I grew up on and didn't want to populate it all with like 5 artists lol Week goes by and I'm listening to lots of old stuff as it popped into my head and straight into nostalgia mode. So, I got a crazy idea/itch... I found a website that lists almost every album that's released, you can filter by year, release date, etc. So I started a google sheet for my hip hop fandom as mostly a way to not forget artists and albums. I went thru the site year by year, in release order and started listening to everything that caught my eye or I remembered. It was pretty easy from the 90s to early 2000s as I used to own hundreds of CDs. Also there wasn't as many releases per year and most were high quality. We're talking a few hundred albums a year, where the last 5 years or so the albums have jumped into the thousands, there's already 4,500+ albums for 2025. No way I was going to listen to all that. Wanted to get my spreadsheet done in chronological so when new albums I'm interested in I can add to it forever. I took it a step further, I decided to make a master playlist which currently sits at almost 1,245 songs. That's after doing a little pruning and I probably need to do some more but it's been really cool to listen to. Playlist is always fresh as I'm not hearing the same songs over and over and it bounces all over starting from 1991 to current day. Few things I was able to do was determine my personal top 5 which is... 1. Lupe Fiasco, 2. 2Pac, 3. Kendrick Lamar, 4. Nas, 5. Common. Another is, the man may be crazy now and music not very good anymore, but damn Kanye's discography and features are elite. Super talented, would likely have him in the top 10 pre-crazy. Lastly, I was able to come up with my favorite 100 albums currently because of this. I'll spoiler it below for anyone interested, my taste is very wide ranging. Liking all styles and artists throughout the years. Like Wu, OutKast, Lil Wayne, Tech N9ne, Gang Starr to underground acts like Atmosphere, CunningLynguists, and Little Brother. Definitely not done yet, I plan to go thru my favorite artists spotify pages and see which singles I missed and get them added where they belong in the playlist for phase 2. Final phase will be listening to stuff like Griselda, MF Doom, Billy Woods, JPEGMAFIA, Action Bronson, etc. The popular and underground stuff from the last 10 years people love. See how my lists grow and what not. I also need to dive into lot of the older stuff. Never really had an ear for it, but that can probably change. Sorry for the long ass read, but here's my top 100 albums if interested: Spoiler
respect for all the west coast representation blu- below the heavens is a top ten album of all time, let alone top 100 that’s all i’ll point out
Blu is on my list to check out for sure. Blu & Exile I think it was. It became overwhelming to listen to everything in the creation of this, wanted to get caught up. Now I can slowly spend time filling in the gaps and stuff of artists I've never listened to. We're kinda spoiled with streaming these days, can listen to everything. Not sure why I never thought to do this before.
That’s awesome man. I do similar projects with music, calendars and spreadsheets. And that’s a fire top five
Open Mike Eagle did a few streams recently where he goes through a list of the 100 best rap albums he could think of (that don't include him or his friends in the industry) in reverse order of when he thought to add the them, ended up being a little over 100, he plays a few minutes from a song or two on each while explaining what he loves about the album, good listen while getting some work done
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Nas is on the De La Soul album coming out tomorrow too, he may actually be god with this level of omnipresence