1) Rapsody – Eve
Favorite Songs: Aaliyah, Whoopi, Serena, Maya, Ibtijah, Michelle, Sojourner
Features: J. Cole, Queen Latifah, SiR, JID, K Roosevelt, D’Angelo, GZA, Mereba, Elle Varner, PJ Morton
10/10
2) Little Simz – GREY Area
Favorite Songs: Offence, Boss, Pressure, Therapy, 101FM
Features: Cleo Sol, Chronixx, Little Dragon, Michael Kiwanuka
9/10
3) Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places
Favorite Songs: Spongebob, Steak Knives, Checkpoints, Spider Hole, Toothy
Features: Elucid, Self Jupiter, MOTHERMARY
9/10
4) Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium
Favorite Songs: Gorgon Madonna, Obsidian Night, Picture Box, Monatomic Mushroom
Notable Features: Historian Himself, Fifi the RaiBlaster, Bravestarr, Kool Keith, Zetina Mosia, Jak Tripper
9/10
5) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana
Favorite Songs: Half Manne Half Cocaine, Crime Pays, Flat Tummy Tea, Giannis
Features: Pusha T, Killer Mike, Anderson .Paak, Yasiin Bey, Black Thought
9/10
6) clipping. – There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Favorite Songs: He Dead, Club Down, Run for Your Life, Blood of the Fang, Piano Burning
Features: Ed Balloon, Elcamino, Benny the Butcher, Sarah Bernat, La Chat, Counterfeit Madison, Robyn Hood
9/10
7) L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae – Complicate Your Life with Violence
Favorite Songs: Part One: Introducing An Inconspicuous Man, Say It All, Summer Camp, Cool hand, Clay Pigeons
Features: Chester Watson, Zeroh, lojii, Billy Woods
8/10
8) Diamond D – The Diam Piece 2
Favorite Songs: Omg, The Three Kings, Maintaining, Chivas Blanc, Hold Up, Children of the Ghetto
Features: Snooze, Verse, Buckshot, General Steele, Rockness, Pharoah Monch, Snoop Dogg, Case, Erick Sermon, Havoc, Elzhi, Blake Moses, O.C., Adela, David Banner, Big Rec, Edson Sean, Lord Tariq, Peter Gunz, a-Kash, Styles P, Xzibit, Ashtin Martin, Doo Wop, Tony Touch, Termanology, Talib Kewli, Terror Van Pooh, NIKO IS, Twista, a-F-R-O
8/10
9) Your Old Droog – Jewelry
Favorite Songs: Shamash, Jew Tang, Mrs. Cloutfire, Babushka II, Stoop Kid
Features: Mach-Hommy, Matisyahu, MF DOOM, The God Fahim
8/10
10) HARRIETT, Damani Nkosi & Ill Camille – HARRIETT
Favorite Songs: Alkaligned, African Chop House, Heal and Chill, Alive, Native Son
Features: Teira Lockhart Church, Thandi Ntuli, Rae Khalil, Rippy Austin, Joi Starr, VCR, Javonte Pollard, Billz Egypt, Teodross Avery,
8/10
11) Uncommon Nasa & Kount Fif – City as School
Favorite Songs: Nyst, From No Where Else, Van Gogh’s Ear, Old Cats
Features: Karniege, Barrie McLain, Tek, Gajah, Duke01, Short Fuze, Shortrock, Furious P, Sadat X, Awol One, DJ Kool Flash, Pep Love, DJ Ragz, Guilty Simpson
8/10
12) Krum & Theory Hazit – Here’s Mud in Your Eye
Favorite Songs: Quiet Game, Man vs Machine, Come Through the Fire, Touch Forever, Dead Fish Only Float Downstream
Features: Denmark Vessey, Zane One, Dirt
8/10
13) Epic Beard Men – This was Supposed to Be Fun
Favorite Songs: Hours & Minutes, Sand Dunes, Circle the Wagons, Hedges
Features: Atmosphere, Blue Raspberry, Vockah Redu, Eligh, Yugen Blakrok
8/10
14) Quelle Chris – Guns
Favorite Songs: Spray and Pray, Guns, Mind Ya Bidness, Straight Shot, Obamacare
Features: U.G.L.Y. Boy Modeling, Mach Hommy, Denmark Vessey, Maurese, Ronnie “Hands” Palmolive, Bilal Salaam, Cavalier, Eldar Djangirov, James Acaster, Jean Grae, Jonathan Hoard
8/10
15) Truth – The Fight for Survival
Favorite Songs: Mic Like Boom, Tnt, The Sheeple, Toxic Temptress, Extreme Measure
Features: Tragedy Khadafi, Royal Flush, The Barbarian, Ill Bill
8/10
16) Nems – Gorilla Monsoon
Favorite Songs: Timb Boots, Where You Know Me from, Who Got Ya, No Reggaeton
Features: Conway the Machine, Spit Gemz, Al-Doe, Axel Leon
8/10
17) Choosey & Exile – Black Beans
Favorite Songs: Black Beans, Low Low, Brown & Beautiful, Ain’t Scared
Features: Devaughn, Aloe Blacc, Jimetta Rose, Ishe, Fashawn, The Last Artful, Dodgr, Blu, Ana Tijoux,
8/10
18) Vinnie Paz & Tragedy Khadafi – Camouflage Regime
Favorite Songs: Canaan’s Bracelet, Fibre Optic Weapons, Thought Machine, Bloody Jungle
Features: Iron Sheikh, Agallah, Ill Bill
8/10
19) Billy Woods – Terror Mangement
Favorite Songs: Western Education is Forbidden, Blood Thinner, Dog Days, Gas Leak, Dead Birds
Features: Fielded, Mach Hommy, Pink Siifu, Akai Solo, Lauren Kelly Benson, The Funs
8/10
20) Clear Soul Forces – Still
Favorite Songs: Kick It, Pump Pump, Blaow, Sword Play, They Shootin
Features: DJ Odilon, Nameless
8/10
21) Common – Let Love
Favorite Songs: HER Love, Hercules, Leaders, God Is Love
Features: Samora Pinderhughes, Daniel Caesar, Swizz Beatz, Leikeli47, BJ the Chicago Kid, A-Trak, Jill Scott, Leon Bridges, Jonathan McReynolds
8/10
22) Danny Brown – uknowhatimsayin?
Favorite Songs: Dirty Laundry, 3 Tearz, Belly of the Beast, Best Life, Negro Spiritual
Features: Run the Jewels, Obongjayar, JPEGMAFIA, Blood Orange
8/10
23) JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Favorite Songs: PTSD, BBW, Prone, BasicBitchTearGas, Buttermilk Jesus Type Beat
Features: Helena Deland, Buzzy Lee, Abdu Ali
8/10
24) Bronx Slang – Bronx Slang
Favorite Songs: Ladies and Gentlemen, Freeze, Music Please, Karate Man Brusies on the Inside, Bronx Was Burning
Features: NONE
8/10
25) Murs, 9th Wonder & The Soul Council – The Illiad is Dead and the Odyssey is Over
Favorite Songs: The Hulk, Cancun ’08, Unicorn Glitter, Give Me a Reason, My Hero
Features: Pookie Blow, $ilkMoney, Heather Victoria, Rapsody, Reuben Vincent, GQ, Cojo
8/10
26) The Legion – Three the Bronx Way
Favorite Songs: Word, Joy, 1980 Something, Three the Bronx Way
Features: Sadat X, Beneficence, Dres, Droopy Dog
8/10
27) Diabolic – The Disconnect
Favorite Songs: Marvel, Pyrex, Holy War, Lost in Translation, Fable
Features: DJ GI Joe, DJ Eclipse, Maggie Burnz, Tones, Taboo
8/10
28) People Under the Stairs – Sincerely, The P
Favorite Songs: Let the Record Show, The Red Onion Wrap, Redeemer, Streetsweeper
Features: NONE
8/10
29) Little Brother – May the Lord Watch
Favorite Songs: Everything, Black Magic, Picture This, Work Through Me
Features: NONE
8/10
30) The Good People – Good for Nuthin
Favorite Songs: Self-Destruct, Everybody in the Place, Headphones, Off the Block
Features: Kool DJ Red Alert, Large Professor, Lil Fame, Sadat X, Napolean Da Legend, DJ C-Reality, Cella Dwellas, G Roc
8/10
31) Griselda – WWCD
Favorite Songs: Chef Dreds, Cruiser Weight Joke, Dr Birds, Kennedy
Features: Raekwon, Novel, Tiona Deniece, 50 Cent, Keisha Plum,Bro A.A. Rashid, Eminem
8/10
32) Stormzy – Heavy Is The Head
Favorite Songs: Big Michael, Crown, Audacity, Rachael’s Little Brother
Features: Headie One, Tiana Major9, Yebba, H. E.R., Ed Sheeran, Burna Boy, Aitch
8/10
33) Futurewave & Daniel Son – Moonshine Mix 2
Favorite Songs: Low Tide, Cheap Scopes, Use 2, Cobra Venom
Features: Flee Lord, Rome Streetz, Asun Eastwood, Family Gang Black, Estee Nack
8/10
34) Sean Price & Small Professor – 86 Witness
Favorite Songs: Bear Witness, Latoya Jackson, Refrigerator P!, Think About It
Features: DJ Revolution, Rock, Quelle Chris, Elucid, Castle, AG Da Coroner, Guilty Simpson, Your Old Droog, Illa Ghee, Reef the Lost Cauze, Curly castro, Zilla Rocca
8/10
35) Big Tone & House Shoes – Big Shoes
Favorite Songs: Exodus, No Guest List, 8th Day, Beautiful Mind, Haze
Features: Denmark Vessey, Mosel, Quelle Chris, Ta’Raach, 87, Jimetta Rose, Blu
8/10
36) Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes
Favorite Songs: Father Figures, Abu Enzo, Secrets & Escapes, Red Light Zone
Features: Pharoahe Monch, C.S. Armstrong, Evidence, Talib Kweli
8/10
37) Learic & ESK – Thought Instruments
Favorite Songs: Learical Individual, The Thesis, Amen, Delivering Precision
Features: Konflik, Jarv, Amelia Wilcox, Fish Grease
8/10
38) Slauson Malone – A Quiet Farewell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen
Favorite Songs: Ttrabul, Treachery of Memories, Smile 4, The Message
Features: Medhane, Pearl de Luna, Taphari, Maxo, Caleb Giles
7/10
39) Smif-N-Wessun – The All
Favorite Songs: Testify, Let It Go, Let Me Tell Ya, Illusions, Stahfallah
Features: Raekwon, Heather Victoria, Musiq Soulchild, Rapsody, SmittytheCAINSMITH, Rick Ross, GQ,
7/10
40) Dope Knife – Things Got Worse
Favorite Songs: The Jason Theory, Biggest Loser, Famous, Split Second
Features: T.K.O., Lindqua Franqa, Boog Brown, Bero Bero, Abiyah, Britt Scott
7/10
41) Tyler, The Creator – IGOR
Favorite Songs: IGOR’S THEME, EARFQUAKE, PUPPET, WHAT’S GOOD
Features: NONE
7/10
42) Last Sons – Chekhov’s Gun
Favorite Songs: Welcome to Corporatonia, Technicolor, Morphine, Chekhov’s Gun
Features: Uncommon Nasa, Gullotine Crowns, Barrie McLain
7/10
43) slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain
Favorite Songs: Nothing Great About Britain, Doorman, Toaster, North Nights
Features: Mura Musa, Jaykae, Skepta
7/10
44) Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal – Back at the House
Favorite Songs: North to South, Bless the Fire, Down, Jargonne, The One
Features: NONE
7/10
45) Homeboy Sandman – Dusty
Favorite Songs: Far Out, Name, Easy, Lookout, Tres Bon
Features: Quelle Chris, Your Old Droog
7/10
46) Add -2 – Jim Crow the Musical
Favorite Songs: The Secret Life of Blacks, You’re Different Skit, Fear of God
Features: Koku Gonza, Accapella, Brittney Carter, Oliv Blu, Phonte, Andy Allo, Sam Trump, Elisa Latrice, K.Love, WdotIII, Yaw, Natalie Oliveri
7/10
47) Gang Starr – One of the Best Yet
Favorite Songs: Lights Out, Hit Man, Get Together, Business or Art
Features: M.O.P., Q-Tip, Group Home, Royce da 5’9″, Jeru the Damaja, J.Cole, Ne-Yo, Nitty Scott, Talib Kweli, Big Shug, Freddie Foxxx
7/10
48) IDK – Is He Real?
Favorite Songs: Cloud Blu, Alone, 24, Lilly, Porno
Features: NONE
7/10
49) Sampa the Great – The Return
Favorite Songs: Freedom, Time’s Up, Dare to Fly, Made Us Better
Features: Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo, Sunburnt Soul Choir, Krown, Ecca Vandal, Whosane, Thando, Steam Down, SILENT JAY, Jace XL, Alien, Mandarin Dreams, Blue Lab Beats, Boadi, Lori
7/10
50) Blockhead – Free Sweatpants
Favorite Songs: Dream On, Slippery Slope, Kiss the Cook, Be Safe
Features: Billy Woods, Open Mike Eagle, Breezly Brewin, Aesop Rock, Tree, Homeboy Sandman, Armand Hammer, Vic Spencer, Marq Spekt, Hemlock Ernst
7/10
Other Recommended Albums:
| Tone Spliff – Ardore Melodico |
| Cassidy – Banana Clips 2 |
| BROCKHAMPTON – GINGER |
| Skyzoo & Pete Rock – Retropolitan |
| The Game – Born 2 Rap |
| Anti Lily – That’s the World |
| Kanye West – Jesus is King |
| The Opioid Era – The Opioid Era |
| G Herbo – Still Swervin’ |
| Juice WRLD – Death Race for Love |
| A.J. Munson – Cigarettes & Coffee |
| Your Old Droog – It Wasn’t Even Close |
| Obie Trice – The Fifth |
| Skepta – Ignorance is Bliss |
| MF Grimm – American Hunger Rebirth |
| Megan Thee Stallion – Fever |
| Styles P – Ghost of All Time |
| Black Milk – DIVE |
| Kaan – Requiem For a Dream Deferred |
| Dreamville – Revenge of the Dreamers III |
| KAYTRANADA – BUBBA |
| EARTHGANG – Mirrorland |
| Czarface – Czarface Meets Ghostface |
| Kemba – Gilda |
| Fred the Godson – God Level |
| Boogie – Everything’s For Sale |
| Taiyamo Denku – The Book of CyphaDen |
| Your Old Droog – Transpoprtation |
| Vic Spencer – Bah Wounds |
| Ras Kass – Soul on Ice 2 |
| The Underachievers – Lord of Flatbush 3 |
| Aesop Rock & Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken |
| Gladiator Pen – Gladiator Pen |
| Maxo Kream – Brandon Banks |
| Cam’ron – Purple Haze 2 |
