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Kendrick took a 5 year hiatus leading up to this album or as he states in the first track One thousand, eight hundred and 55 days, and warns us to be afraid. For most Hip-Hop heads this came out as one of his worst records, although I firmly believe that this is his 2nd best record only to be outdone by to pimp a butterfly. Although they seem unconnected these two master pieces are actually juxtaposing each other showing Kendrick's maturity; In TPAB Kendrick takes the crown of Hip-Hop ... read more

Frank Ocean's sophomore record 'Blonde' is his most elaborate project in his very limited discography and is nothing short of a masterpiece, Frank took 4 years and around 4 different speculated release dates to construct this conceptually amazing and sonically beautiful sounding album. The album starts with the track 'NIkes' which has dreamy production and pitched up vocals symbolising Frank talking in his teenage perspective and introduces the main relationship taking ... read more

After coming of his least acclaimed album, 808's and heartbreak and multiple controversies Kanye had to create an album to remind the world of Kanye's creative genius and he well and truly delivered. Kanye creates his most conceptually inept album displaying his Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Kanye shows us the highs (before runaway) and the lows (after runaway) the first eight tracks show Kanye being arrogant and braggadocios but seemingly wakes up and recognises he is the problem ... read more

SZA's sophomore album SOS had been in the works for five years after her breakout studio record CTRL, and I believe most fans were more than happy to wait that long after hearing this record for the first time. SOS consists of mainly contemporary R&B tracks but SZA breaks into rock influences on tracks like F2F. The record give us an insight into SZA's perspective on life right now especially on relationships in her life. SZA takes us on this rollercoaster of emotions throughout ... read more