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Originally Posted by d.sound
I gave the first two tracks another listen straight through. I hear it now, it does have some interesting change ups. Still, it doesn't do anything for me. I don't like a lot of hip hop in general. I LOVE Tierra Whack and Themselves. The Yugen Blackrock album this year was interesting for its heady lyrics, but I only listened to it a few times. The Dis Fantasy EP this year is pretty good. Then I like some classics. Public Enemy's It Takes... is one of the best albums ever by any standard.
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Check out the Billy Woods album “Hiding Places” from this year. Sharp, good songwriting, intense — that one really is reminiscent of some NYC ‘90s hip-hop styles.
Little SIMZ has a surprisingly good debut. Tyler the Creator made a really strong dark-synth heavy soul-rap-dance hybrid album that is his first actual great release. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib released Bandana, which is good, though not great.
Other good shit too. Slauson Malone’s “A Quiet Farwell (sic): Twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen” is one of the best albums of the year. ... Made by Winston Marsalis’ son, who happens to be a really good abstract hip-hop producer with jazz fragments floating all over the place. Dreamy and spooky and surreal.