rolling rage beats 2022

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/young-nudy-rich-shooter/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/22/young-nudy-ea-monster-review/

Atlanta's Young Nudy getting attention

the exact sorta shit that writer drools over lol

nadine or chris or both lol

he sounds way more like keef than he does gucci also, but thats neither here nor there

the latter xp

some beauties there, voodoo - thank you!!! tony, duwap and esp Sha EK making my head spin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PggjOWxOtiw

I like this

thanks sean. i'm very hot and cold on duwap but that one got me. tony's reflexxions album is pretty excellent through and through.

and my fav sha ek song is "who you touch," which seems to have been removed from streaming :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAii0rJR58

dj lucas and bruiser wolf were responsible for a couple of my fav rap albums from last year. never would've expected them to collab, but this is great. lucas's self-deprecating sense of humor fits really well with bruiser's suga free impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMb8jTPBGWk

sha ek album is pretty solid! there's a new, presumably cleared version of "who you touch" with bandmanrill on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwNhy47e8Y

"shot at the party" is another highlight, it's hard not to be shaken by the vocal intensity at work (and the little violin that comes in at the end is a nice trick).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdyGDZjroI

liking the lucki album a lot. nothing too deep, just a pretty sonic world to immerse yourself in for an hour. my fav is prob "goodfellas" (produced by our guy cash cobain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfEuWeu1WY

drakeo the ruler posthumous album is out today. seems like they did it right, just using recordings from when he was alive and the occasional new verses from his brother ralfy the plug. my favorite stretch

"john lennon" is a fun lyrical exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8HrY0haDc

"the real champion" is also great, darkly funny and immaculately smooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2uIdDOoR5A

love the beat on "my way or the highway"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cptNkkG5w

this mach hommy album is very enjoyable and only a half hour. Matt, I assume you're listening to this already?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uw-_GyOLVs

enjoyed billy woods - church! can't quite place it. feels like it thrives on emotional & artistic ambiguity, sort of thing that rewards lots of listens, while keeping itself varied & vivid enough to sustain a sort of narrative. anyway I guess I'd better hear his other 2022 album tomorrow

nb E L U C I D's album from this year is p classic, guess I'll have to hear armand hammer eh

i think you'll like his aethiopes album, it's arcane and abrasive even by woods standards. it's not my favorite style of his tbh (similar in its abstractness to armand hammer's paraffin), but there's good stuff. gonna check out church this week

anyway, gonna do a dump of things i've been digging lately, but i need to mention "jiggy in jersey 2," which is just so good lol. weirdly, it's the second drill-adjacent song to sample "around the world (la la la la)" that i've heard this year. i feel thoroughly owned to be older than 30, let alone pushing 30!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDhfNCUqZDs

excited for the bandman tape even tho it seems like he's leaning pretty hard into drill as opposed to pure club music. i guess not that surprising. i still like his version of ny drill better than any of the other stuff that's out there right now (personal bias on my end)

now that he's major signed, the sample-heavy club style is probably less feasible over the course of a whole tape. i do hope there's some mcvertt in the mix.

im with you, he's one of the best east coast artists these days, main competition in my mind being sha ek, jenn carter, and...ice spice

*east coast drill

"girl w/ the dragon tattoo" is still one of my fav songs of the year. it seems like it got de-listed on youtube tho you can still get to the video from his page

i think "lurkin" was where he really nailed his vision for club + drill

any of you know anything about The Mellos? https://themellos7.bandcamp.com/album/mscln-dst. Saw this on some bandcamp round-up and liked it, but I don't know anything about it

ok, here are some things i've been liking a lot

new wiki album with subjxct 5 is good, but long and unwieldy. there are some fantastic moments, like this one with dj lucas. subjxct usually meets wiki where he lives in the traditional east coast space, but this one has bounce
"silent meeting"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5a62M7MfLg

damjonboi from detroit finds a middle ground between the croaky street musings of someone like boldy james with the punchline heavy approach of the shittyboyz and babytron
"top shelf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwAF9mJ2C1A

joony is one of my favorite rappers in his lane, great taste in instrumentals, easygoing melodies that seem to tumble out of him
"21"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NfdH8Fn8_w

"drifting in tokyo" (came out a few months ago, has become a bit of an underground hit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asoGR26VWlI

youngboy's 3800 degrees is his best project in a very very long time. it came out two weeks ago and he's already released another project since lol. only one has mouse on da track tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vou7KB38Y

last one for now. still working my way thru the new 1017 compilation, and it's pretty astounding how gucci has remained such an excellent discoverer of talent. i love enchanting, and her whispery flow, wish she'd release more music. she sounds fantastic over that old "photoshoot" beat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aITJWsZbZqE

eagerly awaiting the ceo trayle album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W40KAKQulDc

"girl w/ the dragon tattoo"

rev's "girl with the drag-on tattoo" is one of my all-time ILX display names

New EP from one of my favorite rappers (check the emo-punk closing track)

https://open.spotify.com/album/087U0DnHQF2I4HFG7OI1Gx?si=h6HAWSO5SfS6PN9lguf8kQ

new albums from bandmanrill, duke deuce, smino, and babytron out today. suck on that shit, c@rl ch3ry

haven't checked out any of the new smino stuff but looking forward to that one

bandman album is pretty good, tho the previously-released songs are the highlights.

i guess that original "who you touch" sample is never gonna get cleared. thank god for youtube

Really loving the Smino album (and the continued presence of Monte Booker is a huge part of that)

been slacking on boring street rap and dead-end backpacker posts, digging ja'king the divine a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaCKUajYRs

gabe nandez rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-P6Xo1vOc

smino alb is one of my favorites of the year. he's just the smoothest mf in the game!

thanks for the reminder, been meaning to check that out

love this, doesn't quite live up to the song title but what could, reminds me of busta in the chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pS7jGd3l9U

love $ilkmoney, had no idea he was back. and with a whole new project nonetheless!

looking through the new tracklist and that’s probably only the fourth or fifth craziest song title on the project

"eddie murphy golden child hat" made me lol

this one by trapland pat has been stuck in my head for a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7DAzti-cuA

really liking the new mixtape by enchanting, atlanta rapper signed to gucci's new 1017 records. can't get enough of her hushed delivery and tho there may be a few too many guests, she has good chemistry with all of them. a few highlights

"kater to me" (prod. by hitkidd, who did "f.n.f.")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrXjox0eF10

"track and field" ft. kali (been out for a while, but it's still great)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVZSn_XRr3U

"o.p.p." ft. jdot breezy & whoppa wit da choppa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnk_u6E1BE

been blasting out the CEO Trayle album all afternoon, it's good!

yeah it's legit

this one is my current fav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05nGNxetXo

gr8 mix by deej on nts

https://www.nts.live/shows/new-york-naomi/episodes/new-york-naomi-12th-november-2022

reminds me i need to start a seji oda thread

yah that’s good. love the mall money song, and wish luh tyler had more music out there

speaking of trayle, he just dropped a vid for "craxk flow"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tl9NxULyQ0

I just love listening to AZ rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z7NOuzMGVc

been loving the new lil poppa tape, some smart and deeply felt melodic street music to fill the polo g-shaped hole in my listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4VXdwcX-d0

d40 to thread

Lil poppa and slo-be have probably the most underrated albums of the year

checking out lil poppa, really great so far