There are "type beats" and there's "paying homage" and then there's this... blatantly copying a project that came out three weeks ago. I would say the speed is impressive, but only the first three tracks are truly mimicking Fully Loaded. The next five are just RIB Encore clones, with the exception of the last two minutes of Gruesome Part 2, the only good part of this EP.

The only thing I got out of this project is a greater appreciation for Hood Hottest Princess (and its deluxe). I still think that's a genuinely great trap project, but this album has none of its personality. On HHP, every song has Sexyy rapping the trashiest bars with great energy and the utmost confidence. There's hardly a song on that project that doesn't at least give me a chuckle. Like on "I Might", a love song with Summer Walker where Sexyy Red basically advertises ... read more

The first three tracks with the deep throaty voice go hard, but they make the last two tracks (non-deep voice) feel low-impact. It's a fine sound for an 11-minute EP, but not one I'd like to see for a whole album.

There are some great tracks on this very punk-inspired rage-rock project, but it's held down by some mainstream cliches. The crowd chants are a particular turn-off for me. Also the Control interpolation on BAD APPLE just doesn't live up to the original.

On the bright side, tracks like MOSHPIT and DON'T BE SCARED go hard as hell. Also, I remember seeing that TikTok a while back of the eyebrow-deficient girl saying only punk and hardcore concert-goers should be moshing. Funny to ... read more

They should advertise this as a 20-minute brainrot test. Suffice it to say, mine came back positive.

Really hard to characterize the unique brain-tickling production on this mixtape. The drums and bass remind me a lot of Chicago drill, but the beats also have these bright atmospheric elements that seem to phase in and out with the bass. It makes for this really intriguing sound where the beats constantly feel like they're pulsating. This is a one-note project, but that one note feels pretty damn special.

Disturbingly convincing AI Ken Carson clone. This is not like Telescope where the AI sounds drunk. It very convincingly sounds like More Chaos Ken--voice, flows, everything. I don't even think this is a voice changer. I'd bet the voice is fully synthesized.

Even if you don't believe this is AI, there's definitely foul play given this guy has 103k subscribers on YouTube (Che has 163k, for reference) but can't crack 5k views on any music video.

Fine as background music, but there's nothing distinctive or particularly interesting on this project. The production is pretty generic, and Sk8star, while vocally capable, doesn't do anything to develop his own style. I'm never going to hear another rapper's song and think, "Oh, this sounds like Sk8star." Also, ForMyFolks just sounds like a 2023 Hardrock song with extra ad-libs and like... why would you rip off Hardrock, of all people, in 2026?

Such a visceral and harrowing album, and my favorite album of all time. Danny becomes a successful rapper and escapes the cycle of poverty and violence that he grew up with, but his success enables constant drug abuse and hedonism. Danny's drug-fueled lifestyle allows him to avoid confronting his problems, but he becomes increasingly trapped in his own head, reliving the paranoia of the streets of Detroit. Danny may have escaped the cycle, but is the life he's living really any better?

Goes hard as hell most of the time and the production is great. I've heard a lot of rage where the vocals or drums are uncomfortably loud, but this project absolutely nails the mixing, at least to my ears. The horrorcore elements are pretty cliche, but they do add a lot to the listening experience and build anticipation for the booming beats. A great listen for high-adrenaline exercise, even if the last four tracks are a bit weak.

Favs: Don't Give A Fuck, Body Bag, Left 4 Dead

If you like chronically online post-irony, you'll probably enjoy this album, but that's about all you can get out of it. It's Smokingskul trying to sound tough but with intentionally uncool bars and goofy production. I'll chuckle at bars like "I'm getting Kash, can't you Pa-tel" but you get very little genuine emotion or insight into the man behind the persona. To an extent though, I think that's what makes post-ironic rappers like Smokingskul, ... read more

I'm astounded I haven't heard some of the one-liners on this project before. They're so simple, but they go hard asf.

"I will give you wings with the Hot Ones"
"I'm native to planes like the Cherokee"

At first I thought Gold Feather and Fly Forever were waera type beats, but they're actually just produced by waera, so that's cool.

This is my first time listening to Nine Vicious and... this is just WLR-era Carti is he was worse at everything. Less skill, less confidence, worse ad-libs, worse lyricism, and obviously less innovative. Nine's only real differentiator is his decision to use calmer sample-based instrumentals on some tracks, but those are ruined by the inescapable and obnoxious "WHAT" ad-lib that I've probably heard literally hundreds of times over the course of this 34-minute project.

Modern rap lyrics are often filled with fictitious disses directed at nobody in particular--dudes rapping about stealing somebody's girl and whatnot. Whose girl? Nobody knows. But tdf has found a way to weaponize his guests' generic flexes and disses. He throws an Instagram Live snippet on the beginning of a song, and whoever appears in that snippet is, almost by default, the target of the lyrics that follow. Now we all know whose girl is being stolen. Maybe tdf adds some goofy sound ... read more

Just a dumb fun aggressive underground plugg project. Hollow comes out swinging on every verse, with the loud over-enunciated vocal processing that's become quite common in underground plugg, almost anti-mumble-rap. Every song on Yung Hollow sounds the same, but who cares? It's only 17 minutes.

Also tdf might be my favorite producer rn but Balmain is easily the worst song on this project. The Smokingskul 808s are funny with enough support behind them (see BTA) but they can't be ... read more

Wildly entertaining. Half the album is just dudes trash talking tdf in Instagram Live and then it transitions into some heavenly plugg beat. Love the end of Lemme See where some dude is trash talking tdf's 808s for sounding "like his fuckin' microwave" and then 6 starts out with the most microwave-sounding 808s I've ever heard. And somehow 6 is the best song on the album. Great album for shoveling like a foot of snow (shout out the northeast US rn)

Been really enjoying 1oneam recently, and I think he's really found his footing as a vocalist. There's nothing revolutionary on this project, but it's just fun, catchy, and blissful. Agent 47 and Everyday just get stuck in my head.

This album has a mix of decent underground rage/plugg and mediocre attempts at mainstream appeal. The first nine tracks are pretty pop-centric and, from what I recall, entirely non-explicit. xtsy* tries some R&B, dance, electronic, emo trap, etc. but the beats are pretty generic and his vocals aren't particularly exciting. There's some good stuff after the first explicit track, Rodeo, but nothing that really blew me away. He closes the album with two tracks that are very clearly ... read more

I enjoy rascal 51 and like the extreme direction rage is taking, but when you remove the elements that make music catchy, you just end up with music that I can't enjoy as music. The main issue is bleood's vocals, which are indecipherable and don't seem to follow any predictable flow or pattern most of the time. I don't even think he's on beat most of the time, nor is there much harmony between bleood's vocals and the production. Rascal 51 has some legitimate ... read more

About the quality you'd expect from a guy who has dropped well over a hundred songs in 2025 alone. Lazer's good when he sounds aggressive on tracks like A Bando and FX, but most of the time he's on autopilot. The beats are also very repetitive and might as well just be 808s and hi-hats with how quiet the synths and samples often are. This guy blew up off of Asian Rock. Why is his beat selection so bad now?