…rank high on our best of 2020 list. ELUCID had a strong year as well, with the excellent Don’t Play It Straight, an experimental collaborative project with The Lasso. And…
…Tribs” with Heath McNease – but there isn’t a single bad song on here. Don’t sleep on this album – Black Lung is one of the best Hip Hop albums…
…and Kendrick – and who don’t want to look any further – can get kind of tiring. Some people seem to think these four, along with names like Jay-Z, Eminem,…
…the album’s lead single “Scatter Brain”. La Maquina features production from Don Cannon, The Alchemist, Murda Beatz, frequent collaborator Daringer, and others. Westside Gunn is the business-brain of the Griselda…
50 Under-appreciated Post-2000 Hip Hop Albums | Part 5: Discussing ‘best ever’ Hip Hop albums is fun, but at the same time often a futile exercise. It’s fun because it…
…the B-side, “My Melody.” I imagined being in the Latin Quarter to hear “Eric B is President,” but I don’t have to imagine where I was when I first heard,…
…flows and cadences – content matters too. While trap music may be catchy, we don’t believe it consistently offers meaningful content. We have often been criticized for our supposed anti-trap…
100 Essential Hip Hop Albums By Female Artists: Hip Hop has always been a male-dominated genre and sometimes it seems like the women in Hip Hop don’t get enough credit…
…was on the wrong side of the table. The real business brains in the gambling industry don’t place the bets; they accept the bets. That’s where the real money can…
…Masta Ace, Redman, Black Thought, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Andre 3000, Eminem, Royce Da 5’9″ – there have been lots of high-profile top-tier lyricists throughout Hip Hop history. Some of…
…no label projects – which btw does not mean there are no classics on this list: some of the albums on this list were great commercial successes and/or are staples…
…if today’s sad reality is that not talent and quality but marketing and promotion determine what is commercially successful, these days you don’t need to rely on the mainstream media…
