Easily the best instrumental hip hop album, Dilla's final album before his tragic passing was produced in the hospital while he was battling lupus and ttd, essentially his own body was basically trying to kill him, yet he still worked hard to finish this album, it would be released on February 7th, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and 3 days before his passing, he left us wth a masterpiece to remember him by

This album is great, I'm not fully sure how to review it other than saying that he ... read more

Closed on Sunday, you my Chick-fil-A

Had to take a couple points off because the Pusha T feature was only a chorus and that goofy logic feature at the end

Besides that, this is prolly Royce's best work and it's definitely his most personal work, discussing his life, his past as a drug abuser, his family, depression, amongst other issues, he's always been a great lyricist but if there was anything holding him back for me it was prolly the substance, a problem that's really answered here with this album the ... read more

R.I.P CHINO XL

Chino XL is a rapper I knew of for years in fact I listened to this album years ago, back in my underground old head phase, it's just that it's been a while since I listened to it and given the tragic news, I chose to give it another spin, and man this guy was underrated as hell, surprised I don't see many talking about him

This album shines in it's rapping performances, Chino reminds me of like Big L or Ras Kass, he has the grittiness of those two, as well ... read more

This is prolly one of the most tragic albums I've ever listened to

So to actually review this I feel like I gotta explain some context to this, in the late 2000's to early 2010's JPEGMAFIA used to go by Devon Hendryx, an alias based off his actual name, this album specifically was made during the roughest time in Peggy's life, and I do gotta warn y'all this shit gets rough

Peggy made this album when he was severely depressed and had made several comments saying that ... read more

This was like the start of the ReNASsance of the 2020's

Lyrically his rhyming is some of the best it's been and it has some nice production, mixing some jazzy instrumentals with some more trap inspired ones, and it really just sounds good, some meat features, only one I can say I didn't like was Lil Durk, but they're all solid besides that, and also really showed Nas' longevity and how he was starting to adapt to the modern state of Hip Hop

I'm not sure what ... read more

Wild cover

Mach-Hommy is an artist I've been getting into more recently and this is prolly his most popular album besides his recent release, and I can see why, his rapping on here is spectacular, from the start he's just spitting some crazy rhymes with clever wordplay, rapping about several issues going on in his home country Haiti, he also has some singing on here, which I think he's pretty good at, I always liked his calm and rather cold vocal performances and he does pretty ... read more

Prince Paul, the man that produced this album, has a track on the SpongeBob movie soundtrack

Gravediggaz is a Hip Hop group compromised of the RZA, Prince Paul, Frukwan, and Too Poetic (all under different aliases), and when they came together they wanted to make a very horror inspired album, this giving us Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep, while not necessarily the inventors of horrorcore, they gave us horrorcore's best, while there might be horrorcore albums that are maybe more disturbing ... read more

I don't have a joke or witty line this is just great

Boldy James and Sterling Toles gave us one of the best yet, most underappreciated Hip Hop albums of 2020, one of the finest coke rap albums yet, one of the best to come out of the griselda collectivez and maybe even one of the best of the decade so far

Boldy James really paints a grim picture here, yes he gives us the cold coke raps we know from Griselda, but he also gets kinda personal on here, rapping about the harsh lifestyle ... read more

This is like tpab for women

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is Little Simz 4th album and also my real introduction into her music after hearing constant praise from fellow AOTY users, I've been curious about her work for a while, and I'll just say it from the start, this is amazing

Simz rapping is great on here, she has this kinda laid back delivery, and a more monotone voice kinda, but still manages to flow over the more upbeat, energetic instrumentals well, and her lyricism is ... read more

Mac at his freakiest

It's a solid project, Mac's rapping is here pretty good, and his flows are great as usual, it's just that some of production kinda sounds a bit dated and some of the tracks are a bit too freaky (lucky ass bitch), but like it's highs are pretty high, and there is more solid production than moments where it feels dated, I like the trippier feel on a lot of the later tracks, and the features do well for the most part

Not much else to say, it's a ... read more

BALLSKIN

MF DOOM's sixth and final solo studio album is prolly his most villainous yet, everything you'd expect from a DOOM record is here, except it's a lot more darker, vulgar and grittier, he even drops the "MF" here, kinda signifying this is a lot less cartoony than his previous work

DOOM's rhymes are still great as usual, his performances on tracks like THAT'S THAT and GAZZILLION EAR are great and maybe some of his best, the content of his rhymes are ... read more

Some of y'all lack bald people currency

Common and Pete Rock linked up and gave us one of the best hip hop albums of the year so far, unfortunately it got brutally overshadowed because Em dropped the same night, but it's still great, I see some people comparing it to Black Thought and Dangermouse's Cheat Codes, and I see why but I feel like they're very different besides the "rapper links up with producer" thing

The performances from Common are great, I love his ... read more

FUCK YOU DORK, WHO NAMES THEIR BRAND DORK?

Denzel's last project was an incredible introspective therapy session, so how does he follow that up? by going back to his roots and making a Memphis rap album, and it's a sequel to a project from when he was a teen wow, I was already hyped when the singles came out, and now that it's out I can say this shit hard

Denzel lyrics aren't as conscious as his last, bringing back the southern Memphis style he gives us hardcore gangsta ... read more

Should I joke about the asshole bleach or how I miss the old Kanye

The Life of Pablo is Ye's 7th studio album and also the most messy, incohesive, just all over the place project, and it's great, at first it just kinda seems like a bunch of songs slammed together in a playlist, but it's more than that, it feels like Ye took bits of his past and implemented them onto this in a way

Kanye's vocals are great, he shows on tracks like No More Parties in LA and Saint Pablo that ... read more

You think Guru and Preemo told the judge that he could be in the cover if they dismissed Guru's gun case (yes I stole this joke)

Gang Starr has always been a group I wanted to get more into, and this is an album I remember enjoying years ago, and it's honestly better than I remembered, Guru's raps mixed with Preemo's beats just made for peak Boom Bap

Guru has some great performances on here, rapping with this voice that while smooth and calm still commands respect in a ... read more

So this is my Favorite Denzel Curry album

2022 was a really stacked year for Hip Hop, JID dropped The Forever Story, Kendrick returned with Mr. Morale, hell 50 year olds were putting out some of their best work in a while, and to me Denzel dropped his peak on this year, most people point to TA13OO as his best and I get why (I used to be one of those people) but after relistening to this I think this is my favorite from him

He takes a very different approach to this album than his previous ... read more

That cover is hard tbh

El-P originally got his start from another Hip Hop group before RTJ, that being Company Flow with Bigg Jus and Mr. Len, while only having one album (besides an instrumental one) they really left an impact and made big waves for the abstract and experimental genres

The rapping here is great, El and Jus have these dense wordy verses that really could require analysis yet they also have their quotables like "LEAVE YOU MUTE LIKE MAGGIE SIMPSON" and such, ... read more

Rocky made his Yeezus and was never seen again

A$AP Rocky's third studio album is not only his first project with no ScHoolboy Q feature, but also his most divisive project, having a rather mixed reception, although in recent times more people have said it's a decent album and compared it to Kanye West's Yeezus for it's more experimental aspects (including Rocky himself) and yeah I see why

Rapping it's prolly his weakest project, his flows are still solid and he still ... read more

Madvillainy but it's loud

Denzel and Kenny made a really great EP with a really great short film accompanying it, it's a very fun listen and a short one with pretty much no filler, the rapping is great, Denzel comes in with these aggressive and loud performances, which yeah we know him for but he does mix up some of his vocals here, in some tracks he kinda has like this DMX voice, such as in DIET_, there are tracks like Take_It_Back_v2 where he has some effects on his voice that ... read more