Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana
Favorite Songs: Half Man Half Cocaine, Crime Pays, Massage Seats, Palmolive, Flat Tummy Tea, Situations, Giannis, Education
Features: Pusha T, Killer Mike, Anderson .Paak, Black Thought, Yasiin Bey
9/10
Styles P – S.P. The GOAT: Ghost of All Time
Favorite Songs: So Much to Say, Give N Take, Deadman, Out in the Jungle, Really Us, I Ain’t Shit
Features: Jadakiss, Nino Man, Whispers, Sheek Louch, D-Block Europe, Lil Fame, Dizzy Banko, Cris Streetz
5/10
Griselda – Wwcd
Favorite Songs: Chef Dreds, Moselle, Cruiser Weight Coke, Freddie HotSpot, DR BIRDS, Scotties, Kennedy, City on the Map
Features: Raekwon, Novel, Tiona Deniece, Eminem, Keisha Plum, A.A. Rashid
8/10
Inspectah Deck – Chamber No.9
Favorite Songs: Shaolin Rebel, Certified, Who Run It, Fire
Features: Cappadonna, Hellfire, Mz. Geminii, Streetlife, Trife Diesel
4/10
Murs, 9th Wonder & The Soul Council – The Iliad is Dead and the Odyssey is Over
Favorite Songs: The Hulk, Cancun 08′, My Hero, Ga$ Station Gucci Belt, Unicorn Glitter, High Noon, Night Shift, Give Me a Reason, Super Cojo Bros.
Features: Rapsody, Pookie Blow, $ilkMoney, Heather Victoria, Reuben Vincent, GQ, Cojo
8/10
Injury Reserve – Injury Reserve
Favorite Songs: Koruna & Lime, Jawbreaker, QWERTY Interlude, Jailbreak the Tesla, Gravy n’ Biscuits, Wax On
Features: Amine, Freddie Gibbs, DRAM, JPEGMAFIA, Rico Nasty, A-Trak, Pro Teens, Cakes da Killa, Tony Velour, Dylan Brady
7/10
BJ the Chicago Kid – 1123
Favorite Songs: Feel the Vibe, Playa’s Ball, Too Good, Worryin’ Bout Me
Features: Anderson .Paak, JID, Rick Ross, Offset, Eric Bellinger, Afrojack, Buddy, Kent Jamz
3/10
Quelle Chris – Guns
Favorite Songs: Spray & Pray, Guns, Mind Ya Bidness, It’s the Law, PSA Drugfest, Straight Shot, Obamacare, Wyrm
Features: Jean Grae, Mach Hommy, Denmark Vessey, Cavalier, U.G.L.Y Boy Modeling, Bilal Salaam, Eldar Djangirov, James Acaster, Jonathan Hoard
8/10
Fred the Godson – God Level
Favorite Songs: My God, Back Out, Better Now, Smoking Gun, Lebron & Serena
Features: Benny the Butcher, Jim Jones, 38 Spesh, Axel Leon, Marc Scibilia, Bobbi Storm, Sweetest Voice
5/10
CZARFACE & Ghostface Killah – Czarface Meets Ghostface
Favorite Songs: Back at Ringside, face Off, Iron Claw, Powers and Stuff, Morning Ritual, Listen to the Color
Features: Kendra Morris
6/10
slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain
Favorite Songs: Nothing Great About Britain, Doorman, Dead Leaves, Inglorious, Toaster, North Nights, Ladies, T N Biscuits
Features: Skepta, Mura Masa, Jaykae
7/10
Kemba – Gilda
Favorite Songs: Work in Progress, Exhale, Nobody I Can Trust, Peter Pan, Deadass, Last Year Being Broke
Features: Smino, Eric Bellinger, Portugal. The Man, Jagged Edge, Chris Scholar
5/10
Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes
Favorite Songs: Abu Enzo, Situated, Greatest That Never Lived, Father Figures, Red, Secrets & Escapes, De La Kufi, Red Light Zone
Features: Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, C.S. Armstrong, Evidence
8/10
SOB X RBE – Strictly Only Brothers
Favorite Songs: Sensei
3/10
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places
Favorite Songs: Spongebob, Steak Knives, Checkpoints, Spider Hole, Crawlspace, Toothy, Red Dust
Features: Elucid, MOTHERMARY, Self Jupiter
8/10
Aesop Rock & TOBACCO – Malibu Ken
Favorite Songs: Tuesday, Sword Box, Acid King, Suicide Big Gulp, 1+1=13, Churro
6/10
Atmosphere – Whenever
Favorite Songs: Bde Maka Ska, Push Play, Whenever, The Ceiling
Features: Murs, Gifted Gab, Nikki Jean, Musab, Muja Messiah, haphduzn
4/10
Jim Jones – El Capo
Favorite Songs: Love of the Hustle, Make No Issues of It, My Era, Cocaine Dreamin, Song Boxing
Features: Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine, Curren$y, Dave East, Fabolous, Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, Cam’ron, Fred the Godson, Trav, Marc Scibilia, Maino, Drama, Ball Greezy Guordan Banks, Philthy Rich
6/10
JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Favorite Songs: Kenan Vs. Kel, PTSD, BBW, PRONE!, Free the Frail, BasicBitchTearGas, Buttermilk Jesus Type Beat
Features: Helena Deland
8/10
Obie Trice – The Fifth
Favorite Songs: Intro, Heartless, Truth to Power, Rollin, 185+ Deuce, Smr
Features: G5, Directorkasper, Lyriq, ????, Magnedo7, Xzibit, Spice 1, Swifty McVay
6/10
L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae – Complicate Your Life with Violence
Favorite Songs: Dead battery, Summer Camp, Cool Hand, Borrowed Brass, Clay Pigeons
Features: Billy Woods, lojii, Chester Watson, Zeroh
8/10
KAYTRANADA – BUBBA
Favorite Songs: DO IT, 2 The Music, Go DJ, 10%, Taste, Scared to Death, Freefall, September 21
Features: Mick Jenkins, SiR, GoldLink, Pharrell Williams, Iman Omari, Kali Uchis, Masego, VanJess, Estelle, Charlotte Day Wilson, Ari PenSmith, Eight9FLY, Durand Bernarr, Teedra Moses, Tinashe
5/10
Smif – N – Wessun – The All
Favorite Songs: Testify, Let It Go, Let Me Tell Ya, The A.L.L., Stahfallah, Illusions, One Time
Features: Rick Ross, Raekwon, Rapsody, Heather Victoria, Musiq Soulchild, SmittytheCAINSMITH, GQ
7/10
Bun B & Statik Selektah – TrillStatik
Favorite Songs: Still Trill, Basquiat, Money, Superstarr, Time Flies, Jon Snow
Features: Method Man, Talib Kweli, Fat Joe, Westside Gunn, Big K.R.I.T., Uncle Murda, CJ Fly, Haile Supreme, Termanology, F.A.M.E., Wais P, Meechy Darko, Smoke DZA, Grafh, Jovanie, Propain, Killa Kyleon, Tobe Nwigwe
5/10
Billy Woods – Terror Management
Favorite Songs: Marlow, Wester Education is Forbidden, Long Grass, Myth, Blood Thinner, Dog Days, Dead Birds, Gas Leak, Trivial Pursuit
Features: Fielded, Mach Hommy, Pink Siifu, Akai Solo, Lauren Kelly Benson, The Funs
8/10
Maxo Kream – Brandon Banks
Favorite Songs: Meet Again, She Live, Dizzy Draco, 3Am, Pray 2 the Dope
Features: Travis Scott, Megan Thee Stallion, ScHoolBoy Q, A$AP Ferg, KCG Josh
5/10
Diabolic – The Disconnect
Favorite Songs: Marvel, The Story, Pyrex, Holy War, Lumberjack, Dirty, Roundhouse, Buddy Lembeck
Features: DJ GI Joe, DJ Eclipse, Maggie Burnz, Tones, Taboo
8/10
Lou the Human – Painkiller Paradise
Favorite Songs: Stay Safe, Blur, Cameras, Way Back When, Holiday, Refill, Death Note
6/10
clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Favorite Songs: Nothing is Safe, He Dead, La Mala Ordina, Club Down, Run for Your Life, Bloof of the Fang, Story 7, Attunement, Piano Burning
Features: Benny the Butcher, Elcamino, Ed Balloon, La Chat, Counterfeit Madison, Robyn Hood, Sarah Bernat
9/10
Trae tha Truth – Exhale
Favorite Songs: Exhale
4/10
Your Old Droog – Transportation
Favorite Songs: Monthly, Under the Train, The Cheese, My Plane, Bikes, Bleeps, Buses, 207, Taxi, Vigilante
Features: Quelle Chris, Wiki
6/10
Insane Clown Posse – Fearless Fred Fury
Favorite Songs: Fury!, West Vernor Ave, Satellite, Night of Red Rum
3/10
Vinnie Paz & Tragedy Khadafi – Camouflage Regime
Favorite Songs: Canaan’s Bracelet, A Warrior’s Fate, Fibre Optic Weapons, Nocturnal Militia, Cinematic Echo, Thought Machine, Persian Legacy
Features: Ill Bill, Iron Sheikh, Agallah
8/10
Flying Lotus – Flamagra
Favorite Songs: Heroes, More, Black Balloons Reprise, Actually Virtual, 9 Carrots
Features: Anderson .Paak, Tierra Whack, George Clinton, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, Toro y Moi, Solange, Little Dragon, David Lynch
5/10
Blu & Oh No – A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night
Features: Straight No Chaser, The Robbery, Liquor Store, Pop Shots, Murder Case, Jail Cypher
Features: Kezia, Abstract Rude, Self Jupiter, Donel Smokes, Definite, Ca$hus King, MED, Montage One, Tristate, Brandi Price, Playa Haze, Mic Holden, Ayun Bassa, Jabee, Carl Roe, LocalBlac
7/10
Black Milk – DiVE
Favorite Songs: Black NASA, Blame, Swimm, DiVE, Pt. 2, Don’t Say, Now Begin
Features: BJ the Chicago Kid, Sam Austins, Mahd, Phil Swish
6/10
The Underachievers – Lords of Flatbush 3
Favorite Songs: No Detectives, Tokyo Drift, Rowdy, Last Call, Randy Moss
6/10
Beast Coast – Escape From New York
Favorite Songs: Left Hand, Problemz, Distance, Last Choir
Features: Joey Bada$$, Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers, Kirk Knight, CJ Fly, Erick the Architect, AK, Nyck Caution, Zombie Juice, Meechy Darko, Issa Gold
4/10
Your Old Droog – Jewlery
Favorite Songs: Shamash, Jew Tang, BDE, Mrs. Cloutfire, Diamonds, Babushka II, Stoop Kid, Jewlery, The Greatest To Ever Do It
Features: Mach Hommy, Matisyahu, Tha God Fahim
8/10
EARTHGANG – Mirrorland
Favorite Songs: LaLa Challenge, UP, Top Down, Swivel, Tequila, Blue Moon, Stuck
Features: T-Pain, Young Thug, Kehlani, Arin Ray, Malik
6/10
Papoose – Underrated
Favorite Songs: Underrated, Numerical Slaughter, Mash the Gas on Em
Features: DJ Premier, Casanova, Remy Ma, Angelica Villa, Musiq Soulchild
3/10
Homeboy Sandman – Dusty
Favorite Songs: Morning Yan, Name, Noteworthy, Step Inside, Pussy, Live & Breath, Lookout
Features: Quelle Chris, Your Old Droog
7/10
Cam’ron – Purple Haze 2
Favorite Songs: Losin’ Weight 3, I Don’t Know, This Is My City, Keep Rising, The Get Back, Straight Harlem
Features: Wale, Jim Jones, Max B, Mimi, Disco Black, Shooter
6/10
GoldLink – Diaspora
Favorite Songs: Cokewhite, U Say, Tiff Freestyle, Rumble
Features: Pusha T, Tyler, The Creator, Khalid, Wizkid, Jay Prince, Ari PenSmith, Maleek Berry, Bibi Bourelly, Lola Rae, Haile, WavelQ, Jackson Wang, Lil Nei
5/10
Diamond D – The Diam Piece 2
Favorite Songs: Omg, The Three Kings, I Can’t Lose, Got It Covered, Bodied, Maintaining, Chivas Blanc, The Hit, The Zone
Features: Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Twista, Raekwon, Fat Joe, Pharoahe Monche, O.C., Fred the Godson, Styles P, Erick Sermon, Termanology, Havoc, Elzhi, Snooze, Verse, Buckshot, General Steele, Rockness, Case, Blake Moses, Adela, David Bannet, Big Rec, Edson Sean, Lord Tariq, Peter Guns, a-Kash, Xzibit, Ashtin Martin, Raheem DeVaughn, Wes Felton, Doo Wop, Tony Touch, Terror Van Pooh, NIKO IS, a-F-R-O
8/10
Kota the Friend – Foto
Favorite Songs: Full Bloom, Mommy, For Colored Boys
Features: Saba, Isa Reyes, Richard Parker, Hello Oshay, Lizzie Ashliegh
4/10
Uncommon Nasa & Kount Fif – City as School
Favorite Songs: Nyst, Van Gogh’s Ear, Old Cats, Artificial Times, Clusters, Sunrise, Origin Stories
Features: Guilty Simpson, Sadat X, Awol One, Karniege, Barry McLain, Tek, Gajah, Duke01, Short Fuze, Shortrock, Furious P, DJ Kool Flash, Pep Love, DJ Ragz, Shortrock
8/10
Higher Brothers – Five Stars
Favorite Songs: 16 Hours, One Punch Man, Do It Like Me
Features: Ski Mask The Slump God, Denzel Curry, JID, Souljia Boy, ScHoolboy Q, Rich Brian, Guapdad 4000, NIKI, KOHH
5/10
Skepta – Ignorance Is Bliss
Favorite Songs: Redrum, No Sleep, Going Through It, Glow In The Dark
Features: J Hus, Wizkid, Nafe Smallz, Key, Cheb Rabi, B Live, Lancey Foux, Lay-Z, Boy Better Know
5/10
Joell Ortiz – Monday
Favorite Songs: Sip Slow, Champion, Jamaican Food, Momma, Grammy
Features: Big K.R.I.T., Blakk Soul
7/10
Danny Brown – uknowhatimsayin?
Favorite Songs: Dirty Laundry, Belly of the Beast, Savage Nomad, Best Life, Negro Spiritual, Shine, Combat
Features: Blood Orange, Run the Jewels, JPEGMAFIA, Obongjayar
8/10
Ghostface Killah – Ghostface Killahs
Favorite Songs: Me Denny & Darryl, Burner to Burner, Flex, Conditioning, Fly Everything, Pistol Smoke, New World, The Chase, Sourshop
Features: Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Eamon, Harley, Cappadonna, Sun God, Shawn Wigs, Solomon Childs, Masta Killa
7/10
Twista – Summer 96
Favorite Songs: Summer 96, War Ready, So Fresh So Clean, Tonite
Features: DJ Pharris, Do or Die, Scotty Music, Vic Spenser, Beadz, Shan, Bandman Kevo, Berner, Clarkairlines
3/10
Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet
Favorite Songs: Lights Out, Hit Man, Get Together, Business or Art, Take Flight, Bless the Mic
Features: Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Ne-Yo, Nitty Scott, M.O.P., Big Dhug, Freddie Foxxx
7/10
Common – Let Love
Favorite Songs: HER love, Hercules, Fifth Story, Leaders, Memories of Home, Dwele’s Interlude
Features: Daniel Caesar, Swizz Beatz, BJ the Chicago Kid, Jill Scott, Leon Bridges, Samora Pinderhughs, Leikeli47, A-Trak, Jonathan McReynolds
8/10
E-40 – Practice Makes Paper
Favorite Songs: Wake They Shit Up, Chase the Money
Features: Quavo, ScHoolBoy Q, A$AP Ferg, Roddy Ricch, Ty Dolla $ign, G-Eazy, Rick Ross, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, Jeremih, Scarface, Stresmatic, Sada Baby, B-Legit, Milla, P-LO, James Too Cold
2/10
Rapsody – Eve
Favorite Songs: Nina, Cleo, Aaliyah, Oprah, Whoopi, Serena, Maya, Ibtihaj, Michelle, Iman, Sojourner
Features: J.Cole, JID, SiR, Queen Latifah, Leikeli47, K. Roosevelt, D’Angelo, GZA, Mereba, Elle Varner, PJ Morton
10/10
Roc Marciano – Marcielago
Favorite Songs: Ephesians, Tom Chambers, Puff Daddy, Saw
Features: Westside Gunn, KA, Willie the Kid, Knowledge the Pirate, Cook$
5/10