Oh, haha.. yes, I am quite in tune with these... ahem ahem, say... extravagant projects, some call it "experimental" while I uhh... prefer to call it.. "Hoe scaring music", haha, right.. As you can clearly tell I have my "AUX privileges rebuked" and I am also a "Weirdo" if I do say so myself. What? Why?.. well, you see, my music taste is quite unique, actually. You'd never believe me if I said this, but.. Yeezus is my favourite album. Yes, ... read more

Unironically one of the better hip hop releases this year

Look, Im biased, I'll take that on the chin, but there's something you gotta understand ab Cities Aviv and his artistry. Aviv isn't a "genius", but he's an incredibly creative mind who is talented enough to create some of the best Abstract Hip Hop pieces. He's an artist you WANT to hear more from, but you just can't. Well, this tape is a solution to this issue.

It's 35 tracks of beautiful, ... read more

Snoozefest post Jukebox Joints (halfway into the album btw)

It's really ironic how Rocky dedicated the first track off the album to dissing people who have "sold their soul" for profit, meanwhile the biggest issue with this album is that it just sounds soulless. There isn't a single good song that follows Pharsyde and it's a shame, because the album's start was... promising, to say the least.

Hate to butcher artists for switching genres and experimenting, ... read more

This record is surprisingly hollow when you look beyond the pumpatous, egotistical attitude it delivers on each track. Though this might just be the issue of me coming back to this album a fair lot and just... growing a bit tired of it. This is Kanye at his "highest", every songs is dripping with ego and self confidence and, thanks to Kanye being a, well, "character", he manages to not only use this ego to feed into his own disrespectful and beautiful and TWISTED persona, he ... read more

I really, really REALLY wanted to like this album. My initial listen was somewhere in the beginning of October. I returned to it in November, and, finally relistened to it for the third time in December. Each time I left this album in an unsatisfied state. I look at the RYM score - great, I look at the AOTY score - Fucking amazing, on the same level as LYSF, but when I listen to the album it just sounds... okay-ish? Like, the fuck is wrong with me? I expanded my taste in music enough, I started ... read more

Back when I first listened to The Unseen by Madlib I wasn't, say, "awestruck" by it's abstract production, but I was CONFIDENT that no other hip-hop album will ever encapsulate the wackiness and weirdness of it. Well, as ppl on this website luv to say it, "it's okay to be wrong sometimes". If The Unseen is the equivalent of smoking a fat blunt in your crib while spinning a few vinyls on your shitty suitcase record player, cLOUDDEAD's self titled is the ... read more

So much raw, unfiltered emotion and pain here on every single track, "Get Hi" is one of the most disturbing hip hop tracks within the context of this album

A lot of people who be swearing on their hands and knees that Nujabes is the GOAT might have never heard any of these tracks, nd it's sad because Nunabes is really an amazing producer and nowadays his legacy is brought down to corny tiktok "I have no enemies" edits w/ his most overplayed tracks playing in the background. And that's something I never understood w/ people that hop on artists from tiktok. It's cool 2 learn new artists, cool to spread out your taste in ... read more

From Filthy Tongue is the proud father of experimental hip hop, watching his sons grow from oddly muscular babies into gay twinks w/ a proud smile on his face

Yk a lot of people like to say "this artist was ahead of their time" and "that artists was ahead of their time", the artists in question may range from genuinely talented individuals to people who were just freeballing with they mike, and just happened to get crowned as the "great-great-great-great-grandgather ... read more

ROCK JOURNEY #3

I love love love love the raw, noisy aspects of this thing and how by the sixth minute of, really, any track off this thing you're gonna be thrown into the most aggressive, noisy drum pattern you've heard, accompanied by a screeching guitar / sounds from the seventh layer of Hell turned up to the max, may be it's not smth that everybody can properly enjoy, but I grew up tryna learn cool drum patterns so for me this album is the coolest shit ever. Although I ... read more

Devastating

Never judge a book by it's cover... OR it's title.

Armand Hammer is a duo composed of one great artist and a top 3 lyricist of this decade, it almost feels unfair to have a top 10 producer make beats for three songs off they album. This album had a LOT of shi going for it, and im really glad it payed out in the end.

Woods and Elucid give us a deep, sometimes quite ominous look at our society from multiple angles. We have evolved. Old, stationary platforms became convenient glowing ... read more

This album is a very, very, VERY bad anti-drug PSA.

It's hilarious how in every pic Danny has w/ other rappers he the only guy looking crazy while evb just standing there with blank faces or trying to look away as hard as possible. He was scaring the bro's too. Same can go for Jpeg if you rlly listened to some interviews he got

And while Danny would soon turn away from that crazy persona he often times wore, and Jpeg would go down a slightly more spiritual route dan usual (+ he got ... read more

Yeah.

I feel like this 1 isn't even really a review but jus some thoughts I needed to get off my chest because this album and the praise it gets was gen unbearable to witness. So here we go, no hate towards Danny I luv him

Im not even gonna hate all that much bc I do understand that yk Danny been on a comeup as of late, he been sober for a year atp, his life probably shifted after making that brave decision, and its only a given his music will, too. Because tf? Obv I didn't expect ... read more

[REVIEWING ALL OF LUM's RELEASES 4/17]

This song in it's entirety is jus a long, bittersweet love letter to hip hop from LUM.

"Art is imitation, Creation is forever, Innovation is spontaneous" is an, admittedly, boring but accurate summarization of this song (besides the one I gave in the first paragraph ig man). With each year of LUM's career it becomes clearer and clearer that he really don't gaf about fame, money or success he may have had if he actually ... read more

ROCK JOURNEY #2

Okay may be its not acc rock but shoegaze is still TECHNICALLY rock so whatever.

Lush, magical and oddly nostalgic. I know im not doing the album justice it deserves by typing in this short ass review, but I feel like some albums I deadass just can't put into words, it's a feeling

ROCK JOURNEY #1

I feel like a third eye just opened in my frontal lobe man, I feel like I transcended to another plane of reality after hearing this shit.

So, if it wasn't obv enough already I don't really listen to a lot of genres outside of rap. Na it don't really gotta do with the fact that I am clearly close minded and afraid to step out of my comfort zone, but more w/ the fact that, this whole time, I was kinda saving up these genres for later. My grandiose, genius plan ... read more

Best thing to come out of cloud rap and debatably experimental hip hop, and that's saying a LOT

Of course. Here is a negative review for "Vultures 2," written from the perspective of a disappointed listener.

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A Soulless Retread That Misses the Point Entirely

★☆☆☆☆ (1/5 Stars)

Let’s be clear from the outset: hope is a dangerous thing. With "Vultures 1" being a surprisingly coherent, if flawed, return to form, I allowed myself to hope that the "Vultures" project was more than a cynical cash grab. "Vultures 2" brutally snuffs out ... read more

[RATING ALL OF CITIES PROJECTS 1/18]

They done took all the best shit off the album bru

Black Pleasure is a really interesting mixtape to me. It's constantly stuck in between cloud rap and abstract subgenres, not being good enough to be wildly recognized and praised by either communities, but not bad enough that it's borderline discredited, either. Here and there you'll meet some folks that'll say some like "oh yeah that's my shit bro, SO influential", and ... read more