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Kr00ked said:
The new Crimeapple x Apollo Brown album is incredible too.

Eto - "Long Way Home" is another one.

Shit, i thought the year was pretty stacked honestly.
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Liking both of these albums a lot, thanks, I honestly haven't had my ear to the ground as much for hip hop recently, been deep diving on jazz-fusion this last year. Whenever folks start posting their year-end album lists on here I'll be checking everything out!
 
SixthDeadlyVenom said:
Liking both of these albums a lot, thanks, I honestly haven't had my ear to the ground as much for hip hop recently, been deep diving on jazz-fusion this last year. Whenever folks start posting their year-end album lists on here I'll be checking everything out!
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I'll start then. I thought 2024 was a pretty amazing year for Hip Hop. Here's my top 10 in no particular order.

Hus Kingpin and 9th Wonder: The Supergoat
Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips
Roc Marciano: Marciology
Eddie Kaine: Last Exit to Crooklyn
Conway The Machine: Slant Face Killah
Mach-Hommy: #RICHAXXHAITIAN
Vince Staples: Dark Times
Common and Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. 1
Boldy James/Nicholas Craven: Penalty of Leadership
Kendrick Lamar: GNX

Honorable Mentions
Conductor Williams: Conductor We Have a Problem, Pt. 3
Rome Streetz: Hatton Garden Holdup
Grafh/38 Spesh: God's Timing.


And there's so many more great albums that dropped. I couldn't even keep up with everything that came out this year.
 
walkingdogs said:
I'll start then. I thought 2024 was a pretty amazing year for Hip Hop. Here's my top 10 in no particular order.

Hus Kingpin and 9th Wonder: The Supergoat
Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips
Roc Marciano: Marciology
Eddie Kaine: Last Exit to Crooklyn
Conway The Machine: Slant Face Killah
Mach-Hommy: #RICHAXXHAITIAN
Vince Staples: Dark Times
Common and Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. 1
Boldy James/Nicholas Craven: Penalty of Leadership
Kendrick Lamar: GNX

Honorable Mentions
Conductor Williams: Conductor We Have a Problem, Pt. 3
Rome Streetz: Hatton Garden Holdup
Grafh/38 Spesh: God's Timing.


And there's so many more great albums that dropped. I couldn't even keep up with everything that came out this year.
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Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN
Westside Gunn - 11
Westside Gunn - Still Praying
Common x Pete Rock - The Auditorium vol. 1
Crimeapple x Apollo Brown - This, Is Not That
Roc Marci - Marciology
Roc Marci x Alchemist - The Skeleton Key
Vega7 x Body Bag Ben - Kawasaki Killers
Eto - Long Way Home
Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce

Honorable mentions/Still need time with:
Killer Mike - Saints and Sinners
Rome Streetz x Daringer - Hatton Garden Hold Up
Estee Nack x Futurewave - Stone Temple Pyrex
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Rome Streetz x Futurewave - Noize Candy 5 Remixes
Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
Dj Muggs x Crimeapple x RLX - Los Pollos Hermanos
Muggs x Raz Fresco - The Eternal Now
Fahim -Dump GOAT 2
Fahim x Nicojp - Snakes
Vince Staples - Dark Times
Hus Kingpin x 9th Wonder - The Supergoat
Boldy James x Nicholas Craven - Penalty of Leadership
Elucid - REVELATOR
ANKHLEJOHN - Pride of a Man
Crimeapple x Preservation - El Leon
Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady
Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness 2
Daniel Son x Futurewave - Bushman Bodega
Future - Mixtape Pluto
LL Cool J x Q-Tip - The Force
21 Savage - American Dream
Masta Ace x Marco Polo - Richmond Hill
Larry June - Doing It For Me

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This topic made me go ahead and start going back through a few of these albums yesterday and this morning:

Crimeapple x Preservation - El Leon
Estee Nack x Futurewave - Stone Temple Pyrex
Daniel Son x Futurewave - Bushman Bodega
Future - Mixtape Pluto
Dj Muggs x Crimeapple x RLX - Los Pollos Hermanos

Each of these are definitely some other standouts of the year, imo, for different reasons.

My top 10 could change depending on the day. I think Mach, Roc, Common, and Gunn are my only definites. The others could be swapped out here and there, again depending on the day.

That Crime x Apollo is another one I can't change either though got dammit.

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dirty hands said:
I can’t keep track of what came out but I liked the albums from:

Lukah
Elucid
Mach-Hommy
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I’m liking this ALC x Roc on first listen
Does BLK LBL count?
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I'm absolutely loving this new Roc album.

"Purple majesty's on a ratchet beak/
Clap the heat from ya hat to ya feet, atrophy/
Actually if we let rappers eat/
Then that's a bag of yeast to fatten the geese/
I run NYC to burn calories/
Vintage slacks out the gallery/
Dudes live vicariously through the kid and repeat my shit like a parakeet/
Listen daddy carry receipts/
All these carrots in the ring I'm ODing on beta carotene/"

This man said if he lets a rapper "eat" then it's just to fatten them up before he feasts on them himself. Then he "runs New York" to burn off the got damn calories 🤣😂🤣

That's incredible.

And it feels like Alchemist made this album with Roc's own production style in mind and just put his own spin on it. That's genius to me.
 


From the artist: "OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING is the fruit of intense meditation and solitude. you will live your life according to your ideas, ideals, praxis and philosophies, you will maybe fall prey to ideology, you will escape through mythology. this will convince you of rightmindedness when truly these are mere trophies of experience, a collection. luggage.

at some point your zeal will be confusing to all. your boundlessness will become grotesque. some friends will whisper but always be smiling in your face.

i had to make this album to cope with living loss and anguish, to grapple with torture inflicted on my kids and me.

i've been in a custody battle for about 12 months, around 7 months into that process my baby's mother launched a fund raising site making heinous lies about me to garner funding. it was actually the first holiday i had visitation with my child so i was not anywhere near the internet that day. she raised 11,000$ before i was able to make a statement saying these allegations are false.

as of december, i have been subject to two police investigations and several DCS cases, i have had around 5 orders of protection filed against me and my family in 3 states as well as a child abuse injunction.

every order of protection was dismissed at hearing and in the state where it was available, a judge awarded me lawyers fees. the child abuse injunction was thrown out of court within 15 minutes.

not a single police investigation resulted in charges filed or arrests made. i fully cooperated with police and volunteered for both cases to go to the police headquarters and submit to questioning. i allowed police into my home to do wellness checks.

DCS has visited my home several times and concluded i am a good, safe parent.

no allegations made against me were substantiated in any way.

as of now, i am my child's legal custodian. her mother has visitation for a few hours a month that includes being supervised by a therapist. she was ordered to have a psychological evaluation due to erratic behaviors in court. the person who made these claims public, who jeopardized my child's safety by posting their name and face, claimed to need funding for attorneys. she often showed up to court with no attorney. the two attorneys she hired withdrew citing a lack of payment, despite her fundraising success, and she has had to have court appointed council several times as her behavior has changed the nature of our case at certain junctions.

when all of this came out in the shocking manner it did, i lost many friends. people i thought knew my character, people i thought would at minimum spare a phone call to find out for themselves what was up, immediately stopped speaking to me. they shunned any conversation. a total stranger making allegations without evidence was proof enough for them. despite being cleared through police investigations and court dismissals, in some circles i will always be a pariah.

other friends, really my family, wasted no time. they lifted me up. they cooked food and sent money, they called regularly to check in. they defended my name in spaces and rooms i wasn't privy to. they gave me beats. they helped me make my art. they made me laugh and gave me scripture to read. they kept watch to make sure my family was safe when the death threats poured in. all my children have always lived with me. my friends know that. they knew we needed help.

i have been a professional rapper since i was 19. for 13 years i have paid every bill, bought every grocery, and supplied every toy through my craft.

i watched what had been built through hard work and intuition crumble. an entire tour had to be canceled. my savings for buying farmland was completely ran through for the numerous lawyers i needed to hire due to the false filings my child's mother did in separate states. my record store had to close. three members of ruby yacht jumped ship.

it became best if i stayed in the house. OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING is the fruit of intense meditation and solitude. all my children are home safe and my refridgerator is stocked plenty. the poet will always write a way. an OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING is all one needs to level up. i'll catch y'all on that open trail again soon enough."
 
The Denmarkian Wonder said:
32 tracks!? Redman, you’ve smoked too much weed…or not enough.
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walkingdogs said:
He's been talking about it for like a decade so I'm shocked it actually came out. Haven't listened to it yet, but that's too many tracks to make a cohesive album.
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The album is about the length of the drive home from my mom's after lunch, and I'll have no kids in the car with me, so kinda perfect timing for me!
 
walkingdogs said:
He's been talking about it for like a decade so I'm shocked it actually came out. Haven't listened to it yet, but that's too many tracks to make a cohesive album.
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I sampled it on ITunes. There’s a bunch of skits like he usually has but it just sounds like an assortment of mid tracks that would usually be cut from the final album imo
 
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