The first week of 2017 was pretty quiet for album releases (except for Two Zero One Seven, s/o Sosa), but the second week has brought with it a ton of excellent new project. Side note: for 2017, Audio Plug’s New Music Fridays series will feature not just albums released on Friday, but project that have come out over… Read More New Music Fridays: January 13th, 2017
2016 was an incredible year for music (if not for anything else), and 2017 is already shaping up to be just as impressive. Check out my 15 most anticipated albums of the next year below, but fair warning: most of these albums don’t have release dates, and several don’t even have titles yet, so it’s… Read More Top 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2017
The only project Lil Wayne dropped this year was Collegrove, his collaborative album with 2 Chainz, as his long-standing issues with Birdman and Cash Money have kept his next studio album in limbo for years now. Having standing lawsuits with both his label boss and Universal Studios, it’s understandable that Wayne’s creative process has been dampened, but he’s ready… Read More Lil Wayne Announces 3 Albums For 2017
Chief Keef was remarkably quiet for 2016, but he promised war on the newer “coloured-hair” rappers who have been blowing up recently, stating in concert that he was coming for them in 2017. He decided to start his return as soon as possible. Keef’s new appropriately-titled Two Zero One Seven mixtape is a 17-track affair, with most… Read More Chief Keef Rings in the New Year with a New Album
10. Isaiah Rashad – The Sun’s Tirade Despite being signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, Isaiah Rashad’s magnificent debut, Cilvia Demo, didn’t attract near the attention it deserved. Over time, however, the Chattanooga-born rapper started to draw more and more attention for his aggressively personal stories of family, fame, and struggle. The Sun’s Tirade, his sophomore album, is a far… Read More Albums of the Year, Pt. 5: 10-1
20. Kevin Abstract – American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story When Kevin Abstract dropped mtv_1987 in 2014, I was instantly hooked. He’s been quietly dropping music since he was 13, but mtv was by far his best work to date: the story of a romance with a female drug addict, interspersed with ideas of growth, acceptance, romantic confusion, and the… Read More Albums of the Year, Pt. 4: 20-11
30. Lil Yachty – Lil Boat the Mixtape Lil Yachty managed to become one of the year’s most divisive artists, calling into question the very definition of hip hop itself and finding both unlikely fans and outspoken enemies. Following the success of tracks like “One Night” and “Minnesota”, the red-haired, auto-tune obsessed singer/rapper dropped his debut… Read More Albums of the Year, Pt. 3: 30-21
40. Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid Aesop Rock has been dropping music for the better part of two decades, delighting underground rap fans with incredibly verbose writing and complex wordplay. He has one of the largest vocabularies in rap, and while he has a tendency to lose the point in excessively complex language, The Impossible Kid finds Aesop actually delivering… Read More Albums of the Year, Pt. 2: 40-31
Over the next five days, I’ll be listing out my top 50 albums of 2016. There’s inevitably going to be quite a bit of bias involved, and a lot of incredible albums didn’t make the top 50. Feel free to disagree with me in the comment section. A quick note on my choices: to keep things simple,… Read More Albums of the Year, Part 1: 50-41
2016 is quickly coming to a close. As we prepare for the next five days of the Top 50 Albums of the year, here’s my top 15 EPs of the year: short, yet sweet projects of less than ten tracks. Check the list out below, and let me know in the comments if you think… Read More Top 15 EPs of 2016
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