Best Tiga's album in a decade - super straightforward, bright, and striking on sight.

It took me 2 years to like this album! On a first glance, it looks like another bunch of post-aggrotech/death metal tracks that are quite skippable. What makes things interesting is the second half, full of ambient tracks with condensed sonic energy, that could fit perfectly into some game OST (like Doom/DMC). What I always loved about Combichrist projects is the craving for experiments and their brilliant execution. So this time it felt different yet fitting the band concept perfectly again. ... read more

Wow! A true masterpiece I missed back in the 00s, while being obsessed with Industrial music. One can discern the invaluable influence the album exerted over some great bands like Combichrist, Headscan, Suicide Commando, Soman, Icon of Coil etc. Sound is very diverse, but each track is also extremely well-crafted and works on its own, forming its own Industrial subgenre with hundreds of bands that will follow it for the next one and a half decades.

One of the most hated records for no reason. Amazing beats and energy that went through two and a half decades extremely well. My personal Prodigy's top-3 after FOTL and Dirtchamber Sessions.

Uncle J is on it again - pure mid-10s vibe you either enjoy or not. At least half of the tape is straight bangers, and it might be gold without some other tracks. Still, altogether they form the perfect nostalgic fractal mosaic, full of different vibey moments and topics that J highlights in his straightforward lyricism.

I had very high expectations on R3S3T, thanks to classic Ransom dilogy and the new Mike Will's cool sound built with Chief Keef/Ferrari for the last few years for Dirty Nachos, and many fire singles. The first 6 tracks had nothing to do with either and sound very bland. Young Thug's track is just like stfu rooster, and skip from the first couple of seconds. Then comes the signature Mike Will's tracks that are as cool as in 2015 (from Deeper to Money Talks) - the cast is almost as ... read more

A hidden gem from the past, that still stands out today by having a very distinctive sound I can't characterize otherwise than exactly like 'slick' - both for pimpy flow and beats. Many tracks like 'Impress the Kid', 'Trapped in Me', and 'Why Why Why' are chill and crazily energetic at the same time. Smart and fun lyrics as a bonus.

Great tape straight for those who loved Sean Price back then. Even lacking an artist's ultra-charismatic voice, it carries almost the same energy.

Amazing album. The diversity of the songs is very satisfying, brings the entire spectrum of feelings and doesn't let it become monotonous, like many even classic hip-hop tapes. It could sound different back then because of being released in the post-rapcore era, but for now, the sound and lyrics stand very well, and you can clearly recognize the masterpiece that paved the way to Kanye's "MBDTF", Schoolboy's "Blue Lips" etc., which people were finally ready for ... read more

Pure classic

Pretty sure it feels like the forgotten mixtape from the past intentionally, but it's definitely not Flocka's field. His hardest albums (Flockavelli and Triple F Life) are very well mastered, and the level of production was very nice for the releases of that time. Since that era, some rappers like Chief Keef, Slimesito, Lil Double 0, etc. occupied the raw sound and made it great. Here, the stylization is unnecessary and annoying. Some good beats and Flocka's old energy are in the ... read more

A collection of the greatest flows & type beats both guys obtained during their career, rather than something new. Lil B's the only one who didn't try at all, even though I bet everyone was super hyped for their collab.

An interesting take on soul-trap from Lil Double 0 and his most relaxed/warmest album so far. His tapes are always strange and grow on me very slowly, always feeling like a generic trap on first listen, and becoming better and better with each new one (as Freebirdz, for example, that is my personal modern classic).

As a Russian, I can confirm that this is super authentic to the 00's Russian outback, considering the lyrics - I met plenty of 'simple' guys like these back then. At the same time, beats and flow are straight out of the other hemisphere (Atlanta, 00's again). That makes an insane dissonance on each track, and also a super fun & unique blend.

Latest Swae Lee's stuff sounds so cool, and having THAT kind of vibe he lost a bit during his epic & long career. Boy must be preparing something special for the album.

In nostalgia of 10's Rae Sremms, I rediscovered this in 2026. It suddenly sounds pretty cool, vibey and reinventing the band's formula, with the heavy influence of old school and miami-bass hits. Just a couple of skips, thought.

A good ol' ass trap album. Safe formula, zero innovation, but still somehow better than Rocky's one released on the same day and overpromoted af.

One of the most underrated/misunderstood tape of the 20s. Chief reinvented the whole system again here.

Super mid, even Metro's tracks

It gets boring pretty fast after a few tracks. Let's be honest - Rocky can't deliver an interesting sound for a decade straight already, all he does is copy stuff from here and there and bloat it with epic promo. Some tracks are literally a rip-off of the old tracks, like Helicopter / Future - Move that dope or Stop snitching / Rocket - Big Money. Glad Rocky is bringing these gems to the masses.
Back then, he was both a brilliant hip-hop innovator and a good pop star; it's just ... read more