“Doctrine”‘s role is to set up the themes ofPropaganda Xin a somewhat compact fashion, and it still takes a full six minutes to do that (in the album version). It’s overtly avant-garde with three movements: an arpeggio-laden, vocoder-backed morass where Yerin Baek leads pious exultat...
This was the most thrilling rap album of 2023, and I’ll stand on that. Would be an insane pick. Chief Keef, Almighty So 2. Out of his 2024 releases, I still prefer the Mike-WiLL collab tape Dirty Nachos, but it’s clear Sosa and co. put their all behind this project and it wo...
“Wish Me Well” is side A of a Little Brother two-pack, the duo’s first release since their 2019 comeback album, May the Lord Watch. Long-time LB fans’ pulses will surely quicken as soon as “LB bidness” plays over a yearning soul sample supplied by Deonis Cook. The track sees...
There have been so many amazing albums that it’s damn near impossible to capture them all in one list. You can point to any corner of the map and find 50 albums that could be the best album ever made. As a matter of fact, you’ve probably already had this conversation multiple times...
“Big Fish” — a song that wouldn’t be out of place on a YG album — as well as the swirling “BagBak” and the deep-space drone of “745.” One thing that will never change is Staples’ lyrical wizardry; there are few rappers around who can so clearly deliver an idea with ...
Disposable Artsboasts one of the best concepts of the 2000s. Ace plays a young Brooklyn man, fresh from a prison stint, who enrolls in the Institute of Disposable Arts and learns just how far his community has fallen. Masta Ace never gets his due as a top-tier MC but this album is ...
Bushido, einer der prominentesten Gangsta-Rapper Deutschlands, spitzt dies im dritten Teil seiner Albumreihe Carlo Cokxxx Nutten (2015) auf das Gebot zu: »Du musst auch hart