DougMyGrave

A spooky standout of trap musics 2010’s peak, Without Warning is an evolution of the dark sounds 21 and Metro became famous for, alongside Offset’s more active energy. Both rappers sound more comfortable than ever and glide over the harrowing beats.

The pinnacle of everything wrong with 80's Bowie. Catching up to cliche 80's sounds rather than remaining on the cutting edge. The production is a clash of sounding like everything else of the time period and not working with Bowie's lyrical style. It's cheap pop rock that comes off as chart chasing. The vocals are goofy even for Bowie standards. A silly mess with little to revisit.

In the middle of BROCKHAMPTON's emotional, turbulent era, Kevin put out a solo album to make a dent in the RCA contract. It's everything the boy band offers on a smaller, less exciting stage. The project continues to showcase the same clunkiness in the aftermath of the Ameer situation, but the highlights are just as beautiful. A well thought effort from a man who tried to save his crumbling kingdom.

An atomic bomb that changed hip hop ever. Vulgar, violent, disgustingly great. Ice Cube's flows alone changed how rappers sounded and the West Coast standard was born. The torch was not passed, but snatched. Dre's production was forward thinking, slowly ushering in the 90's. Eazy-E remains one of the most ruthless ever over 30 years later.

A landmark classic, a foundational album. Essential listening for the ones passionate for the history.