MAKE HIP-HOP FUN AGAIN! is one of the 7 albums independent West Coast rapper LaRussell released in 2025, and it showed to be a relatively good album. When I dive into a LaRussell album, I'm not expecting it to hear the best album ever, I'm expecting it to be a short fun album that will probably be 60-70 in quality, and this album fulfilled my expectation. I've only listened to a handful of LaRussell's projects but just from listening to the others I can say that this album ... read more

Exactly a year after Gucci Mane was released from jail, he teamed up with prolific producer Metro Boomin to make a trap classic. I love this album and think it's one of the best trap albums ever made. I wanna start off with the production, I thought Metro's beats were amazing on this project, they were sort of simple but also so nasty and eerie. I loved the spooky feel the beats had. I actually thought this was one of Metro's best works, I loved him teaming up with a trap legend ... read more

Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE team up with producer Surf Gang for a full length double LP, and it delivers. I honestly really like this project I think it brings in a new sound for both MIKE and Earl and I always like hearing artist experiment. I wanna start off with the production, I thought the beats on this project were really good and I enjoyed the ethereal feel and I think Surf Gang overall did a really good job with his part because there wasn't one bad beat on the project. I also liked ... read more

So this is one of the many many projects in The Gooch's coveted catalog, and honestly it's not to bad. There's not much to say about this project since there is only 9 songs with not that much depth besides the life of Gucci Mane that he raps so much about. I thought Gucci's performances on the first 7 tracks were really good but he does kind of soil it at the end with his deliveries and choruses. I thought the features were really cool, I liked hearing Drake lay down some ... read more

So in 2022 Ethel Cain released her debut album, Preacher's Daughter, and it is a storytelling masterpiece. I loved this album it was so intriguing and amazing. I wanna start off by talking about the story, I think the whole story was very interesting and I liked the feeling of growing up with her so when I did get to the end of the album where she was talking to her mom beyond the grave, I genuinely felt sad. I think it's such a unique story and I can't wait to listen to her ... read more

A little over a year after Kanye West's successful debut, The College Dropout, he proceeds to drop another flawless album, something only someone as great as Kanye can do. It might be crazy to say that both The College Dropout and Late Registration are perfect scores, but I'll explain right now. Listening to both these albums again I have noticed that Kanye talks about problems in the everyday world, which he doesn't do that much in his later work. This makes both these projects ... read more

On February 10th, 2004, history was made when Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout was released, and this drop changed Hip-Hop forever. This album needs no introduction it is quite known that this is an absolute masterpiece but I'd like to bring in my takes on why I think it is a perfect score. I relistened to this album before giving a for sure ranking and I can confidently say that this is the epitome of what Hip-Hop should be. This album starts off with tracks where Kanye ... read more

8 months after Yeat's successful EP, A Dangerous Summer, that was released to promote this project, Yeat finally releases ADL or A Dangerous Life, and he completely wets the bed. Listening to A Dangerous Summer or ADS I was super hyped because it sounded amazing and made some of my favorite tracks of 2025, I especially loved [ADL IS COMING] and FLY NITE with FKA twigs, and knowing Yeat was working on this project at Rick Rubin's legendary Shangri-La studio, I was just more and more ... read more

After a 16 year hiatus, brothers Pusha T and Malice come back with an absolute masterpiece of an album. This album is perfect and what a comeback album should be, and since its released it has become the best record of the decade for me so far but also one of the best records I have ever listened to. This LP has so many things going for it, but I wanna start with the production, Pharrell Williams's production on this album is his best production ever. I've never heard better Pharrell ... read more

Never For Ever is Kate Bush's 1980 Masterpiece. This is my introduction into Kate Bush and I love her music already. Its so wonderful and weird. I wanna start this review off by talking about the atmosphere of the project, Kate uses her amazing vocals in such a unique, purposefully making herself sound weird which kept my interest the whole time. This whole album feels like a Tim Burton movie which I love. I love the storytelling done on here like from tracks like Babooshka, Army Dreamers, ... read more

Gorillaz finally released there 2026 LP The Mountain and it truly delivers. So this is technically my introduction to Gorillaz, at least an introduction to there albums as an experience. I have listened to standalone songs like Superfast Jellyfish, Feel Good Inc., and Clint Eastwood but never a full album. Therefore going into the album I had no set standards, but by the time I finished this album I was blown away. I wanna start off with the multiple cultures on this album, they all bring ... read more

So after a 5 year hiatus Baby Keem finally came back with Ca$ino and he truly delivered. Now since this album has come out I haven't had it in my rotation as much and it has sort of died down for me but regardless of that I still do think it's Keem's best project. I think this album balances its introspective nature along with is fun nature very well. I find the placement of each track to be perfect and keeps the album captivating. I love the introspective songs like I am not a ... read more

BigXthaPlug and his other label mates from 600 Entertainment made a tribute album to the early West Coast Hip-Hop scene, specifically the prolific rap group, NWA, and boy does it deliver. I loved the infusion of West Coast and Southern Hip-Hop it worked so well together. Everyone involved sounded so good with the production and they were truly doing the West Coast sound justice. There was not one member I didn't enjoy. I especially loved BigX over these West Coast sounding beats and I ... read more

So after nearly a decade wait, A$AP Rocky finally released his long anticipated album Don't Be Dumb and I think it was worth the wait. Now it might be insane for me to rate it this high, but it truly is this good. I wanna start off with Rocky's experimentation on this album, I love when Rocky experiments it makes his catalog so much more fun to listen to. He experiments a lot on this album infusing Cloud Rap, R&B, Punk Rock, Jazz, Rage, Trap, East Coast Hip Hop all in one LP, and ... read more

So The Fall-Off, as we all know, is J. Cole's retirement album but it is also, at least for me, his best album. Now I know that might be a "hot take" but I genuinely love this album so much. I wanna start off with the concept, I think it is so creative to end off with an album that talks about two different times, a decade apart from each other, where you go to your home town and the experiences that came along with it, especially for Cole where he has repped his hometown his ... read more

This is the 3rd installment in Lil Yachty's "Lil Boat" Series. Currently I have not listen to the other two so I wouldn't know if this is a step up or down but as a standalone album I think it's pretty good. I think there are some problems with it, like it's length, although not being that long with a 53 minute length, I think for what Yachty makes it's pretty long and overtime gets boring. I find a couple songs to be just bad with that being From Down Bad ... read more

After a many setbacks Kanye West finally released his long anticipated album Bully, and I have to say, I am very impressed. Going into 2026 Bully was not a album I was relatively hyped for, it was on my radar but with Donda 2 and the Vultures Series I was just not hyped. But after his public apology and the redone tracklist, I did gain more hype, then when it finally came out I was more than ecstatic. Listening to this album really brought me back and I truly felt like I was listening to a ... read more