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- Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) This is what thoughtful hip-hop is supposed to sound like. This is the product of a rapper who quickly rose to the upper echelon of hip-hop and took a long hard look at the scope of the scene and more importantly, himself, before letting out a visceral, imaginative and musically ambitious production that demands your attention.
- Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) Kanye West has always been on the tip of pop culture’s tongue and this is his most well-rounded endeavor.
- SZA: Ctrl (2017) The first lady of Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment, SZA acquired a cult following with her 2014 mixtape Z, a downtempo project rife with ambient beats and understated vocals—a pleasing combination for fans of artists like XXYYXX and Sky Ferreira.
- Kendrick Lamar: DAMN. (2017) DAMN. isn’t the personal journey that 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly was, and it doesn’t try to be. is Kendrick Lamar dead and Kendrick Lamar alive.
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) What can be said about this monument of an album that hasn’t been said a million times already? This album is special, in a once in a generation kind of way.
- Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (2014) Wow – who would have thought El-P and Killer Mike could outdo their collaborative debut Run The Jewels (2013)?
- Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011) Black Up is the debut studio album by Shabazz Palaces, the duo consisting of Palaceer Lazaro (formerly Butterfly of Digable Planets) and multi-instrumentalist Tendai “Baba” Maraire.
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (2014) Typically we don’t much care for gangsta rap or coke rap or whatever label is attached to tough-guy crime rhymes, but the fruits of the out-of-the-box collaboration between Gary, Indiana-based gangsta rapper Freddie Gibbs and the Oxnard, California native, left-field production-genius Madlib are a firm exception.
- Roc Marciano - Marcberg. Production: artist. In 2010 Roc Marciano silently became the face of gritty and grimy Hip Hop from NYC with his power-packed debut, Marcberg.
- Nas & Damien Marley - Distant Relatives. Production: Damian Marley, Stephan Marley. In the entire legendary discography of the modern day god emcee Nas, a lot of people overlook this extraordinary effort with Damian Marley, Distant Relatives.
- Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute (R.P.M.) Production: Hi-Tek. In ’98, Talib Kweli and Cincinnati producer Hi-Tek constructed one of Hip Hop’s true golden albums with Train Of Thought, an album that is still revered to this day as a classic.
- Rakaa Iriscience - Crown Of Thorns. Production: Evidence, Exile, The Alchemist, El-P, !llmind, DJ Babu, Oh No, DJ Honda, others. While we are very familiar with Evidence and DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples, many aren’t that acquainted with the other emcee of the group, Rakaa Iriscience.
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- good kid, m.A.A.d city [2012] Kendrick Lamar. 558 votes. "B*tch, Don't Kill My Vibe" "Poetic Justice" (feat. Drake) "Backseat Freestyle"
- To Pimp a Butterfly [2015] Kendrick Lamar. 596 votes. "King Kunta" "Alright" "Hood Politics"
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [2010] Kanye West. 592 votes. "Power" "Runaway" "All of the Lights"
- 2014 Forest Hills Drive [2014] J. Cole. 452 votes. "Wet Dreamz" "No Role Modelz" "Love Yourz"
- Madvillain – Madvillainy (2004) Sprawling, ambitious, dense, funny, and consistently refreshing, MF Doom and Madlib’s 2004 collaboration Madvillainy represented the crescendo of an amorphous movement, capturing the inventive spirit of the American underground through a set of uncompromisingly weird and adventurous sounds.
- Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein (2001) Though released in months prior to 9/11, Cannibal Ox’s seminal Cold Vein may as well have sonically predicted the disastrous days ahead.
- Aesop Rock – Labor Days (2001) Shouldering high expectations after his touted signing to Def Jux, Long Island wordsmith Aesop Rock delivered a career defining statement in Labor Days, an album that expanded on his trademark abstraction while dipping further into his favorite themes (modern labor, the effects of city living on the psyche, artistic creation) and a kind of lucidity nonexistent on previous releases.
- Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus (1997) Before El-P took the reins of Def Jux and assaulted listeners as a solo artist, he and cohorts Bigg Jus and Mr. Len crafted one of independent Hip-Hop’s most aggressive and indelible statements, an anti-mainstream screed that expressed its dissatisfaction in every ounce of its being.
Mar 22, 2022 · Open Mike Eagle is a Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based artist who dropped some of the most interesting albums in abstract underground Hip Hop in the 2010s – with his soft spoken-word style, poetic lyrics, and experimental production. Dark Comedy is Open Mike Eagle’s fourth solo album and arguably his best album to date. Belying the at times ...
Aug 26, 2015 · Busdriver – Temporary Forever. The Project Blowed member’s debut was full of the most humorous and mind numbing free-associative rhymes one will ever hear. Looking deeper into Busdriver’s mind,...
