Che Noir – The Color Chocolate, Vol. 1
4 songs, 11 minutes
Favorite Songs: Greek Scholar
Features: Ransom, Your Old Droog, Evidence, ICECOLDBISHOP
3/5
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday 2
Favorite Songs: Barbie Dangerous, Pink Friday Girls, Super Freaky Girl
Features: Drake, J.Cole, Lil’ Wayne, Lil Uzi Vert, Future, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Tate Kobang, Skillibeng & Skeng
4/10
Noname – Sundial
Favorite Songs: black mirror, balloons, potentially the interlude, namesake, toxic, afro futurism
Features: Jay Electronica, Common, Billy Woods, Jimetta Rose, Ayoni, $ilkMoney, STOUT, Eryn Allen Kane
7/10
CHIKA – SAMSON: THE ALBUM
Favorite Songs: TRUTH OR DARE, AWARDS, MAD
Features: Snoop Dogg, Freddie Gibbs, Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Maranda
4/10
Ice Spice – Like…?
7 songs, 16 minutes
Favorite Songs: Munch
Features: Nicki Minaj, Lil Tjay
2/5
Che Noir & Big Ghost Ltd – Noir or Never
Favorite Songs: Veracruz, Bad Apples
Features: Ransom, 38 Spesh, Flee Lord, Planet Asia, D-Styles, Skyzoo, 7xvethegenius
3/5
Nappy Nina – Mourning Due
Favorite Songs: Whippin, Amen, Stone Soup, Sorrel Sip, Smug
Features: Moor Mother, lojii, Cavalier, Maassai, MAVI, Jusmoni, Ohmi, Stas THEE Boss, Nathan Bajar
6/10
Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
Favorite Songs: GOLDEN LADY, MEDITATION, RAP JASM, EVENING, WOODY SHAW
Features: AKAI SOLO, YUNGMORPHEUS, Fatboi Sharif, Orion Sun
8/10
Little Simz – NO THANK YOU
Favorite Songs: Angel, Gorilla, Broken, Control
6/10
Armani Caesar – THE LIZ 2
Favorite Songs: Paula Deen, Mel Gibson
Features: Kodak Black, Conway the Machine, Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Stove God Cooks, Queendom Come, Beatking
5/10
Sampa the Great – As Above, So Below
Favorite Songs: Lane, Mask On
Features: Joey Bada$$, Denzel Curry, Kojey Radical, Chef 187, Witch, Powers Pleasant, Tio Nason, Mwanje, James Sakala, Angelique Kidjo
5/10
Megan Thee Stallion – Traumazine
Favorite Songs: NDA, Ungrateful, Scary, Anxiety, Plan B
Features: Future, Rico Nasty, Pooh Shiesty, Latto, Key Glock, Jhene Aiko, Lucky Daye, Dua Lipa, Sauce Walker, Lil’ Keke, Big Pokey
6/10
Coi Leray – Trendsetter
Favorite Songs: Lonely Fans, Blick Blick, Box & Papers, Anxiety
Features: Nicki Minaj, Fivio Foreign, NAV, Lil Durk, G Herbo, Young M.A, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Her, Lil Tecca, Pooh Shiesty, Polo G, Yung Bleu, Wallo266, Gillie
4/10
Latto – 777
Favorite Songs: Big Energy, Bussdown, Soufside
Features: Lil’ Wayne, Childish Gambino, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Nardo Wick
5/10
Che Noir – Food For Thought
Favorite Songs: Ladies Brunch
Features: Armani Caesar, Rome Streetz, Ransom, 38 Spesh, Jynx716, 7xvethegenius
4/10
Wynne & Christo – Do My Own Stunts
Favorite Songs: Mary’s Lambo
3/5
Haviah Mighty – Stock Exchange
Favorite Songs: Atlantic, Occasion, Obeah, Tesla
Features: Jalen Santoy, Old Man Saxon, Yizzy, Astrokidjay, Mala Rodriguez, Dai Burger, TOBi
5/10
Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Favorite Songs: Mangrove, Iso Fonk, Tarot, Clock Fight
Features: Elucid, Pink Siifu, lojii, Maassai, Yatta, Antonia Gabriela, Brother May, BFLY, Nappy Nina, Black Quantum Futurism, Elaine Mitchener
5/10
Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Favorite Songs: Introvert, Two Worlds Apart, Speed, Rollin Stone, Point and Kill
Features: Cleo Sol, Obongjayar
6/10
Maassai – With the Shifts
Favorite Songs: Grace Jones, Cozy, Nine Lives, The Shifts
Features: AKAI SOLO, KUMBAYA
4/5
Ashnikko – DEMIDEVIL
Favorite Songs: Daisy, Deal With It, L8r Boi, Good While It Lasted
Featured: Princess Nokia, Kelis
3/5
CHIKA – ONCE UPON A TIME
Favorite Songs: CINDERELLA, Pt. 1
Features: BJ the Chicago Kid
3/5
Che Noir – After 12
Favorite Songs: Hunger Games
Features: Ransom, 38 Spesh, RJ Payne, Sa-Roc, Amber Simone, The Musalini, Jynx
2/5
Sa-Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter
Favorite Songs: EmergenceE, Rocwell’s America, Hand of God, Deliverance, Lay It Down, The Black Renaissance, Dark Horse
Features: Saul Williams, Styles P, Ledisi, Chronixx, Black Thought
8/10
Maassai – C0n$truct!0n 002: The Caution Tape
Favorite Songs: Glo in the Dark, Mind Urs, No Seat 4 U, Space
5/5
Little Simz – Drop 6
Favorite Songs: might bang, might not, one life, might live, Damn Right
5/5
City Girls – City On Lock
Favorite Songs: Jobs, That Old Man, City On Lock, Come Outside
Features: Lil Baby, Doja Cat, Lil Durk, Yo Gotti
3/10
Vel The Wonder – Trophy Wife
Favorite Songs: Uma (Samurai), Double Line, Finesse Hunter, Michelle, Andale, Idols
Features: YL, Zoodeville, Blimes, Gab
6/10
Rico Nasty – Nightmare Vacation
Favorite Songs: IPHONE, Smack A Bitch
Features: Gucci Mane, Trippie Redd, Amine, Don Toliver, ppcocaine, Sukihana, Rubi Rose
4/10
CHIKA – INDUSTRY GAMES
Favorite Songs: INDUSTRY GAMES, SONGS ABOUT YOU, BALENCIES, DESIGNER, CROWN
4/5
Megan Thee Stallion – Good News
Favorite Songs: Shots Fired, Circles, What’s New, Girls in the Hood
Features: Young Thug, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, DaBaby, Lil Durk, SZA, City Girls, Mustard, Hot Girl Meg, Popcaan
5/10
Armani Caesar – THE LIZ
Favorite Songs: Countdown, Mac 10’s for Everybody, THE LIZ, Gucci Casket, Simply Done, Yum Yum, Mani Moves Freestyle
Features: Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine
7/10
Ashnikko – Hi, It’s Me
Favorite Songs: Hi, It’s Me, STUPID, Working Bitch
Features: Yung Baby Tate
3/5
Missy Elliott – ICONOLOGY
Favorite Songs: Throw It Back, Cool Off, DripDemeanor
Features: Sum1
4/5
Young M.A – Herstory in the Making
Favorite Songs: Da Come Up, The Lyfestyle, Foreign
Features: M.A, Relle Bey, Max YB
3/10
Wynne – If I May..
Favorite Songs: Roll Call, Ego Check, Ken Mastrogiovanni, 212
Features: JID, Dame D.O.L.L.A., Cipha Sounds, Vursatyl, Illmac, Kayela J, Mahalia
5/10
Haviah Mighty – 13th Floor
Favorite Songs: In Women Colour, Blame, Bag Up
Features: Sean Leon, Omega Mighty, Clairmont the Second
4/10
Yugen Blackrok – Anima Mysterium
Favorite Songs: Gorgon Madonna, Obsidian Night, Picture Box, Hibiscus, Monatomic Mushroom, Carbon Form, Hydra, Metallik Crow
Features: Kool Keith, Zetina Mosia, Historian Himself, Fifi the Raiblaster, Jak Tripper, Bravestarr
8/10
Megan Thee Stallion – Fever
Favorite Songs: Realer, Hood Rat Shit, Pimpin, Best You Ever Had, Big Drank
Features: DaBaby, Juicy J
5/10
Sampa the Great – The Return
Favorite Songs: Mwana, Freedom, Time’s Up, Any Day, OMG, Final Form, Made Us Better
Features: Blue Lab Beats, Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo, Sunburnt Soul Choir, Krown, Ecca Vandal, Whosane, Thando, Steam Down, SILENT JAY, Jace XL, Alien, Whosane, Mandarin Dreams, Boadi, Lori
7/10
Little Simz – GREY Area
Favorite Songs: Offence, Boss, Selfish, 101 FM, Pressure, Therapy, Sherbet Sunset
Features: Chronixx, Cleo Sol, Little Dragon, Michael Kiwanuka
9/10
Doja Cat – Hot Pink
Favorite Songs: Cyber Sex, Won’t Bite, Rules, Say So
Features: Gucci Mane, Tyga, Smino
5/10
Rapsody – Eve
Favorite Songs: Cleo, Aaliyah, Whoopi, Maya, Ibtihaj, Michelle, Iman, Sojourner
Features: J Cole, JID, D’Angelo, SiR, Queen Latifah, K. Roosevelt, Leikeli47, GZA, Mereba, Elle Varner, PJ Morton
10/10
Princess Nokia – Everything Is Beautiful
Favorite Songs: Green Eggs & Ham, Happy Place, Gemini, Soul Food Y Adobo, Blessings I Am Free, The Conclusion
Features: Onyx Collective, Terrace Martin, Oshun
7/10
Noname – Room 25
Favorite Songs: Self, Prayer Song, Window, Don’t Forget About Me, Montego Bae, Part of Me, no name
Features: Smino, Saba, Adam Ness, Phoelix, Ravyn Lenae, Benjamin Earl Turner, Yaw
7/10
Tierra Whack – Whack World
Favorite Songs: Hookers, Hungry Hippo, Pet Cemetary, Silly Sam, Fruit Salad
4/5
Nicki Minaj – Queen
Favorite Songs: Barbie Dreams, Hard White, Bed, Chun-Li, Good Form
Features: Eminem, Lil’ Wayne, Future, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Swae Lee, Labrinth, Foxy Brown
6/10
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Favorite Songs: Get Up 10, Bickenhead, Bodak Yellow, Be Careful, Best Life, Thru Your Phone
Features: Chance the Rapper, 21 Savage, Migos, YG, J Balvin, Bad Bunny, SZA
6/10
