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GAF-Hop |OTXV| Afterlife

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overcast

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Nice list Fjord. Haven't listened to some of those, so I will.

Chance The Rapper made an ad asking for a Grammy basically.
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Corny.
 
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Discotheque

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Gotdatmoney said:
Needs more love. Damn. This would make Father Stretch My Hands actually listenable.
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i like the album, despite having arguably the worst set of Kanye verses of all time, but yeah he should have definitely put this on there.

i know we all joke about CyHi's irrelevancy, and it's true, but he really came through on MBDTF and he would have done so for this too.
 
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HiResDes

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Discotheque said:
i like the album, despite having arguably the worst set of Kanye verses of all time, but yeah he should have definitely put this on there.

i know we all joke about CyHi's irrelevancy, and it's true, but he really came through on MBDTF and he would have done so for this too.
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Black histori project 1 was incredibly dope, shame he never released a better mastered, higher bitrate version to my knowledge.
 
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torre_avenue

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Interesting Vice article on hick-hop, featuring Yelawolf.
Choice quotes:
The general manager of this operation, FAT Thomi, is a music-industry veteran who once ran hip-hop promotions for Arista Records. He explained what he believed to be Knight's appeal: "About seven years ago, I came to the realization that black rappers were going to be a thing of the past... I followed trends. And I watched more and more white rappers... I wanted somebody that was white 'cause it was unique, and it was still fresh and new to the industry." Although his forecast was flawed, FAT Thomi, who is black, stuck to his guns, and when he discovered Knight, he believed he had come across the artist he'd been searching for. "When I heard him and I heard his story, I believed it was the biggest thing in music 'cause he was putting the two biggest genres together yet to be put together."
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Both sides of the aisle responded to Ford's early work with vitriol. Country purists were up in arms for what they saw as someone disrespecting the traditions of a sacred craft, with one blogger named Kyle Coroneos going as far as blacklisting anyone who had collaborated with him. Hip-hop fans thought it was exploitative to resell rap in whiteface, especially because this time the foundation of the genre seemed to have been uprooted. Instead of bringing southern slang to a rap audience, as artists like OutKast had done, they were appropriating rap and adapting it for a country crowd. A song like "Answer to No One," in which Ford proudly raps that he's a "shotgun toter, Republican voter," runs counter to hip-hop's roots as black-protest music, especially when it became the campaign anthem for Rick Perry. This is the same Rick Perry whose Texas hunting ranch was infamously called "Niggerhead." Now his name was being evoked in a rap song in which Ford changed his original lyrics, "Hank Junior supporter / let's protect our border" to "Rick Perry supporter / let's protect our border."
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OniBarubary

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I am so out of rap albums this year. I have a good number of blogs and sites I visit for my other musical predilections but I can't find a really good site to keep up to date on my rap/hip-hop releases. If an album came out by an artist I follow then sure I know it but otherwise it's hard for me to discover new artists.

I just copped the new clipping. album and I think the last rap album before that I grabbed was Chance but was really disappointed in it because it had a ton of singing and the style of rap that I just really don't like from artists I don't care for. Found a lot of albums coming out by people I enjoy have let me down lately like Kanye, Bronson, Chance. Too much singing, too much of that laid back style that's a lot of repetition with little wordplay or flow. Just not a style I enjoy.

I'm having difficulty finding stuff similar to artists I enjoy like clipping., Joey Badass, Bishop Nehru, Blackalicious/Gift of Gab, El-P, Killer Mike, BLKHRTS, this is just random stuff I'm throwing out here. And I don't have a good place to follow to keep up to date with stuff like that.
 
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Koozek

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OniBarubary said:
I am so out of rap albums this year. I have a good number of blogs and sites I visit for my other musical predilections but I can't find a really good site to keep up to date on my rap/hip-hop releases. If an album came out by an artist I follow then sure I know it but otherwise it's hard for me to discover new artists.

I just copped the new clipping. album and I think the last rap album before that I grabbed was Chance but was really disappointed in it because it had a ton of singing and the style of rap that I just really don't like from artists I don't care for. Found a lot of albums coming out by people I enjoy have let me down lately like Kanye, Bronson, Chance. Too much singing, too much of that laid back style that's a lot of repetition with little wordplay or flow. Just not a style I enjoy.

I'm having difficulty finding stuff similar to artists I enjoy like clipping., Joey Badass, Bishop Nehru, Blackalicious/Gift of Gab, El-P, Killer Mike, BLKHRTS, this is just random stuff I'm throwing out here. And I don't have a good place to follow to keep up to date with stuff like that.
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Our Top 10 lists in this thread are a very good way to find good albums. Especially HiResDes' lists.

Here's some stuff from this year that I've listened to:
Koozek said:
Azizi Gibson - A New Life
https://play.spotify.com/album/2dePi5BEcnTnDC5T8zzjlE
https://soundcloud.com/azizigibson/sets/a-new-life

Denzel Curry - Imperial
https://soundcloud.com/denzelcurryph/sets/imperial-ii

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade
https://play.spotify.com/album/6jjX8mGrsWtrpYpFhGMrg1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8skVvhg1FpNTdQf9eQtTyaMfVRzbCw8X

Jay IDK - Empty Bank
https://soundcloud.com/jayidk1/sets/empty-bank

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
https://play.spotify.com/album/3e7vtKJ3m1zVh38VGq2g3H

Ka - Honor Killed The Samurai (GAF-Hop loves this dude - I personally don't, but you might, as he's very lyrical)
https://play.spotify.com/album/7cedsV0ccOZSMS1PUjO2d7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRoAz92CjI

Warm Brew - Diagnosis
https://play.spotify.com/album/1DP4cKZIQfhxsbtY01wjDt
https://soundcloud.com/red-bull-records/sets/warm-brew-diagnosis

(and also their older albums if you like it:

Warm Brew - Ghetto Beach Boyz
https://play.spotify.com/album/2Qf9eEl4SC3lGTVBQ9RRTA

Warm Brew - The Ride
https://soundcloud.com/warmbrew/sets/warm-brew-the-ride
)

EarthGang - Strays With Rabies (last year, but still)
https://play.spotify.com/album/4Cjk7WTdpJjVqEOrkGS1JW
https://soundcloud.com/earthganghbt/sets/strays-with-rabies-album

Polyester the Saint - American Muscle
https://play.spotify.com/album/1PjJGjl61E1Lq0LLOSG32g

Payroll Giovanni & Cardo - Big Bossin Vol.1
https://play.spotify.com/album/0n4lnwKvBzhGWJ4M8xKzOc
http://www.datpiff.com/Payroll-Giovanni-Cardo-Big-Bossin-Vol1-mixtape.783523.html

Goodbye Tomorrow - Tunnel Stripe Exit Ramp
https://open.spotify.com/album/4B5ZWAxiPgUfciiRtG9gO1
https://soundcloud.com/goodbyetomorrow/sets/tser

Noname - Telefone
https://soundcloud.com/noname/sets/telefone

Jeremih - Late Nights: Europe
http://www.audiomack.com/album/jeremih/late-nights-europe

Lil Duke - Uber
http://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Duke-Uber-mixtape.781458.html

Kodak Black - Lil B.I.G. Pac
http://www.datpiff.com/Kodak-Black-Lil-BIG-Pac-mixtape.787992.html
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Bacon

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I love Travis Scott a whole lot but birds McKnight belongs no where near a top ten list of any kind this year. So disappointing.
 
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Cheddahz

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late on this, but here are my favorite non-hip hop albums this year:

joyce manor - cody
crescendo - unless
deep sea diver - secrets
pinkshinyultrablast - grandfeathered
teen suicide - it's the big joyous celebration, let's stir the honeypot
preoccupations - s/t
elvis depressedly - california dreamin'
angel olsen - my woman
¬ b (fka lee bannon) - ¬ b - reflections 2012​-​2016
hamilton leithauser + rostam - i had a dream that you were mine
the avalanches - wildflower
carly rae jepsen - emotion side b

probably forgetting some, but eh
 
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