TOP FREE ALBUMS RELEASED THUS FAR
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TOP ALBUMS RELEASED THUS FAR
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ALBUMS FROM 2011 EVERYONE SLEPT ON
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Bonus: Needledrop Review
Sounds like-Heem’s getting back to his roots, humorous and satirical raps over Indian influenced boom-bap.
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Sounds Like- The pure rhyming aesthetics of say an Illmatic combined with a modern multi- coastal freshness
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Sounds Like – The trillness of your favorite southern gangsta rappers mixed with the intensity of an east-coast killa.
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Sounds Like – Future Garage-Rap/Post-Rap, the hippest yet least cheesy model of where rap seems to be headed
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Bonus Video: Needledrop Review
Sounds Like – To say he sounds like Pimp C is to downplay his profound introspection and ability to conjure empathy, plus his music is much smoother.
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Sounds Like – A top tier flower letting loose over raw beats with a spontaneity reminiscent of Asher Roth in Foie Gras
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Sounds Like – A Caucasian rapper, simultaneously self-aware, and yet braggadocios enough to be a heyday Dipset member.
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Sounds Like – Two of the best modern-day spitters rapping over soulful 9th Wonder production, it’s only this far down to avoid stannery claims.
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Sounds Like – Hodgy Beats on rapid fire over Alchemist production, which is some of the best of the year
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Sounds Like – Excessively explicit, grimey ass raps over gritty inventive lo-fi beats.
TOP ALBUMS RELEASED THUS FAR
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Sounds Like – A boom bap legend imitating kung-fu legends, subbing the punches and kicks for murderous bars.
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Sounds Like – DJ Premier-esque beats featuring the few surviving ambassadors of boom-bap
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Sounds Like – A compilation featuring the best underground rappers and producers you’ve been sleeping on
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Sounds like-An outcast early Three 6 Mafia member harbors a grudge that sends him to an even darker, yet equally trill space.
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Sounds Like – Early XV drops the nerdy gimmicky and focuses more on grittier introspection.
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Crew Love Bonus
Sounds like Flying Lotus takes Araabmuzik under his wing and teaches him everything he knows about music.
BONUS: Melo-X releases free compilation for the cheapskapes featuring the sickest Crew Love mix
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Sounds Like – Lee Bannon gets self indulgent and goes for broke on this experimental excursion, think left-field Peanut Butter Wolf.
ALBUMS FROM 2011 EVERYONE SLEPT ON
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Sounds Like – Possibly the best rap record that only one or two people listened to last year, it’s introspective boom-bap.
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Bonus Video – Needle Drop Review
Sounds Like – NOTHING ELSE, Afro-experimental hop
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