I feel like I have been waiting for this Awful P project for a year…maybe I have come to think of it? But it’s tracks like these that just make you hunger for it’s release. Every song from Awful P just knocks…
The beat from Conflikt impresses. I love the altered vocal samples. And Awful P has a lot of presence on the mic. His voice and his lines just cut through the beat and hold the listener’s attention.
When The BoomBaptism drops, heads are going to take notice.
This track is a couple of weeks old, but I am going to share it anyway because it’s just too good to not be included on the site. Tone Spliff laces our emcees with a high paced banger and chops it up proper while the trio of Recognize Ali, Ren Thomas, and Ruste Juxx all contribute their distinctive verbals to track…each with a different but dope ‘style’.
It’s a sureshot that’s dropping on a project due out later this year called, Renaissance.
Here’s a tough track from the artist LordWillin, off of his most recently released mixtape, Death Sentences. Dope production and good flow and rhyme will get you a spot at HHD essentially every time!
This is a current Dream Team right here! BrownBagMoney connects with Da Cloth over a Futurewave beat, and then the world just catches aflame. That’s how hot this shit is! Rigz, Saipher Soze, Daniel Son, and Mooch drop salvo after salvo of street lyricism that will have you yearning for more. This is a combination that needs let’s say a 16 track opus. A few posse cuts…each artist having their own track…all over some Futurewave production. That has all the trappings of classic.
A guy can dream can’t he?
New hard-bodied single from Ca$ablanca and produced by SoHail. The production reminds me of some older Jedi Mind Tricks material, our emcee, we should know by now is extremely apt to put a poetical punch to any track.
Justo and maticulous cook up some music from the soul with this track Man Up from their recently released album, Mind Of A Man. I love the pace and energy of this track. It’s funky, soulful, and definitively hip-hop. The song also just caters to the spirit of man. Learn from your mistakes, and create life lessons.
I just listened to this whole project and it’s borderline impeccable. You should definitely check it out!
Well, here we are! Our Top 10 albums from 2018. I literally listened to hundreds of projects this year so giving you a top ten was no easy task considering not only the number of albums but also the quality. And these lists are always prone to spark debate and conversation, but that’s part of the fun, isn’t it? I simply wanted to shine a light on my favorite joints this year and in part give my definitive salute as a fan to these artists and their body of work. Here we go…Enjoy!!
It’s been five years since we actually did and end of the year segment where we lauded particular artists and albums for their efforts. 2018 has felt like the right time and place to bring that back our Artist Of The Year accolade. Recognize Ali embodies the dope movement we saw this past year. He put out five albums, all of which are dope, none of which are identical. They are distinctive in sound and all offer something great to hip-hop fans of all walks. He was also probably featured more times than anyone else this year on projects from others. In short, his immense talent matched an unrelenting work ethic that was matched by few others this year.
It is when talent and work ethic reach such high levels that we feel compelled to do something special to share that unique gift with our audience. So please listen to the man’s music…pass the word along to others and read this interview he so graciously granted us. It’s a great read! We’ve also included a few of our favorite Recognize Ali cutz for your listening pleasure at the end. Enjoy!
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So here is a list of my favorite EPs from 2018. I easily could have extended this list to 25 projects and been really comfortable about that. However, I really wanted to showcase what I consider to be the best projects in a year where there was so much greatness to consider. In the end, there were no votes, judges, or etcetera. This was simply a matter of personal preference. I hope you enjoy these projects as much as I did.
This is evidentially a new project that Red Eye has been working on with fellow emcee Ruff Da Rude, and I couldn’t let the video single for the track Pitchfork pass. It’s too nasty not to share.
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