Here are 100 rap albums released this decade that I believe are slept on/underappreciated. I mentioned possibly doing this a few days ago and at least a few people seemed interested, so hopefully it will be helpful for some of yall out there looking for something new to listen to. You may be wondering why certain artists/albums aren't on here, but I had specific criteria in mind when I made this - I only wanted to include albums that have under 500 ratings on rateyourmusic, and only included one album per artist. I assume most of you reading this are already familair with billy woods, Ka, MIKE, Mach-Hommy, Boldy James, Open Mike Eagle, Aesop Rock, McKinley Dixon, ELUCID, Earl Sweatshirt, Roc Marciano, and Cities Aviv but if you aren't, i definitely suggest you change that as soon as possible. As always, links are included below for each album, I always go with bandcamp if it's a available on there but if not i'll try to find the album on youtube.
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Let me know what albums you think are underrated, and if there's anything missing from this list that you'd add. How many of these albums have you heard, what are your favorites? I'd love to know. Peace.
1. Sunmundi & Sasco - Contacting
2. Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez - Sortilège
3. Navy Blue - Gift of Gabriel: Rain's Reign!
4. Serengeti & Kenny Segal - AJAI
5. AJ Suede and Televangel - Parthian Shots
6. ShrapKnel - Metal Lung
7. Raz Fresco & Dibia$e - Secret Wars
8. Defcee & August Fanon - We Dressed the City with Our Names
9. Phiik & Lungs - Carrot Season
10. Theravada & Zoomo - Waste Management
11. AKAI SOLO - Only The Strong Remain
12. Ockham's Blazer - Ockham's Blazer
13. Mary Sue - CACOPHONOUS DIGRESSIONS, A RECORD OF A MOMENT IN TIME
14. Lee Scott - To Tame a Dead Horse
15. Nakama. - EMBERGO
16. KILLVONGARD - Life Is a Masterpiece.
17. Fly Anakin - Frank
18. Moses Rockwell - Until You Run Out of Cake
19. Ill Scholars (Mattic & Madwreck) - Ill Scholars
20. Small Bills (ELUCID & THE LASSO) - Don't Play It Straight
21. Oliver the 2nd & Heather Grey - Desert Camo
22. Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious - The Pride & Glory
23. Skech185 & Jeff Markey - He Left Nothing for the Swim Back
24. Cavalier - Different Type Time
25. Joshua Virtue - RAMA
26. Jam Baxter - Fetch The Poison
27. Bloodmoney Perez - Curses
28. King Kashmere & Eahwee - QUANTUM BANDS
29. Spook & Sadhugold - No Country II: Hell On Wheels (The Ballad of Isom Dart!)
30. YUNGMORPHEUS & Eyedress - Affable With Pointed Teeth
31. Teddy Faley - Teddy Brown Brown
32. Lord Kayso - MOOR CHORES
33. NAHreally & The Expert - BLIP
34. Rap Man Gavin & postureless - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
35. Sasco - The Hottest Year on Record
36. Shemar - emerge "n" see
37. Joshua Virtue & Davis - UDABABY
38. The Fortunate Ones (Anwar HighSign & Dr. Quandary) - RESIN
39. King Vision Ultra - SHOOK WORLD (hosted by Algiers)
40. Nickelus F - MMCHT
41. Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove - Decay
42. zeroh - BLQLYTE
43. Duncecap & steel tipped dove - The Need To Know
44. Nuse Tyrant - Juxtaposed Echoes
45. AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA - An Unknown Infinite
46. Henny L.O. & Ewonee - The Coldest Season Ever
47. Day Tripper - What a time to be DEAD
48. Noveliss & Dixon Hill - Book Of Changes
49. Midnight Sons - Money Has No Owners
50. Domo Genesis & Graymatter - What You Don’t Get?
51. Bloodblixing - SODOM AND GOMORRAH
52. Ja'king the Divine - 手术: BLACK SUN TZU
53. Papo2oo4 & subjxct 5 - PAP on P.E.D's
54. Jeff Markey - Sports & Leisure
55. Jack Jetson & Illinformed - CAMOGODSKIN
56. Deca - Snakes and Birds
57. al.divino - THE BEST HAS YET TO HAPPEN
58. Rich Jones & SINAI. - Sour Dub
59. Steel Tipped Dove - Call Me When You're Outside
60. OKnice - Have You Tried Being Happy?
61. Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 1
62. SolarFive & Iceberg Theory - Momento Mori
63. Fat Ray & Black Milk - Food From the Gods
64. lojii - lo&behold
65. DMH - BEERRUN 2
66. Jak Tripper X Aloeight - Toadmilk 2
67. Lord OlO - Al Chimera
68. Stik Figa & The Expert - Ritual
69. Solomon Strange & Ari Yuseff - The Guerilla God
71. Daniel Son & Futurewave - Bushman Bodega
72. $ilkMoney - Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree…
73. SOO DO KOO - TO SPITE THE FACE
74. Nappy Nina - Mourning Due
75. Onoe Caponoe - Concrete Fantasia
76. Sleep Sinatra & TELEVANGEL - Incorruptible Saints
77. Googie & Henry Canyons - Hijinx
78. Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching
79. demahjiae - And, Such Is Life.
80. Sadistik & Maulskull - Oblivion Theater
81. Unsung - Hand Painted Model Trains
82. bromethugzine - THUG ZINE issue 002: WORLD-SPIRIT
83. Vic Spencer & August Fanon - Psychological Cheat Sheet 3
84. Tomcantsleep & KILLVONGARD - The Sun is Yellow
85. A7PHA (Doseone & Mestizo) - II
86. Estee Nack & Sadhugold - SOGW2
87. Elzhi - Seven Times Down Eight Times Up
88. Killah Priest - Summer End Cafe
89. Hester Valentine - Valenta
90. Cambatta - LSD: Lunar Solar Duality
91. Fines Double - Espejismo
92. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - King Cobra
93. Lt Headtrip - Pressure of the Tempest
94. cunabear - What Dollar$ Can't Buy You
95. Ace Cannons & MIGHTYHEALTHY - MIGHTYCANNONS
96. Davis - Plum Whisky
97. Koncept Jack$on - DRAFT DODGER
98. Lukah - Why Look Up, God's In The Mirror
99. Heems & Lapgan - LAFANDAR
100. ANKHLEJOHN & August Fanon - LIVE! at the Disco
1. Introduce yourself. Past projects? Current projects?
Peace. I’m Sunmundi. I started rapping a few years ago. Last year I released my debut album, Midnight Oil, produced by Āthmaan, through Damn That Noise, and my second album, Lived and Born, produced by klwn cat, just came out. I’m currently working on a project with my man Sasco for '25.
2. Where do you write? Do you have a routine time you write? Do you discipline yourself, or just let the words come when they will? Do you typically write on a daily basis?
I try to write every day. But I go through long bouts of writer’s block, in which case I have to force myself to take a step back and wait till I get inspired again. And I pretty much only write raps while driving. For the past few years I’ve had a really long commute to work, so I end up just listening to beats and jotting down lines in my car. Pretty fucking dangerous, but it is what it is.
3. What’s your medium—pen and paper, laptop, on your phone? Or do you compose a verse in your head and keep it there until it’s time to record?
I just use my phone.
4. Do you write in bars, or is it more disorganized than that?
Initially I tend to just focus on writing down as many thoughts and lines as possible when listening to a beat, then eventually separate them into stanzas where it feels right. I don’t count bars or anything—when a verse feels done, it’s done.
5. How long into writing a verse or a song do you know it’s not working out the way you had in mind? Do you trash the material forever, or do you keep the discarded material to be reworked later?
When I feel like I’m forcing lines, I stop writing. But once I have a set of good/memorable lines and can figure out how I’m gonna rhyme, I know pretty immediately after that I’ll finish the song. I used to try and repurpose all my leftover lines, and a lot of them do end up in songs, but lately I’ve been finding that shit turns out better when I write the whole thing to a beat from scratch.
6. Have you engaged with any other type of writing, whether presently or in the past? Fiction? Poetry? Playwriting? If so, how has that mode influenced your songwriting?
When I was studying English in college, I enjoyed academic writing, so I got used to a certain command of language. I presented one of my papers at a literary conference (the paper was about Griselda and Machiavellian ethics, so I read Benny and Westside Gunn lyrics to a room full of academics and peers, which was funny). But I was never very interested in any creative writing before rap. I feel like my voice/songwriting comes down to my musical influences more than anything.
7. How much editing do you do after initially writing a verse/song? Do you labor over verses, working on them over a long period of time, or do you start and finish a piece in a quick burst?
I definitely labor over verses. I might take anywhere from a week to a month to get a verse done. I try to edit as I go, working line by line, but on the whole, I’m spending most of my time editing after I have a foundation set. I used to take way longer to write a single verse/song, but I’m learning that sometimes quick flashes of writing can yield good shit.
8. Do you write to a beat, or do you adjust and tweak lyrics to fit a beat?
I usually let the beat dictate the direction of a verse. I’ll occasionally write down lines that pop up in my head and put them in a song later on, but generally, I write to beats.
9. What dictates the direction of your lyrics? Are you led by an idea or topic you have in mind beforehand? Is it stream-of-consciousness? Is what you come up with determined by the constraint of the rhymes?
It depends. When I was releasing one-off songs before Midnight Oil, they were mostly inspired by the beats producers would send me. Now my albums are becoming gradually more conceptual, so I generally have a pool of ideas to pull from in order to write a song. I don’t really make songs “about” specific things though—not that I have anything against that, but I like trying to capture moods and atmospheres in more general ways. That’s just more satisfying to me. And I won’t say rhymes are an afterthought, because I spend so much time thinking about them, but I think the content of what I’m writing is moreso at the forefront of my mind. And I believe there’s always some element of stream-of-consciousness going on as well.
10. Do you like to experiment with different forms and rhyme schemes, or do you keep your bars free and flexible?
I feel like I’m still trying to solidify what makes my shit work, so I don’t experiment too much with form. Occasionally I like to try and keep one rhyme scheme for a whole song/verse, but otherwise I’m sticking to the basics and going where each line takes me.
11. What’s a verse you’re particularly proud of, one where you met the vision for what you desire to do with your lyrics?
The verse on “Harbingers” off Lived and Born. It’s the last song on the album, but it feels like it’s opening a door for the listener as I’m closing one for myself—“It’s goodbye for now, hello forever.” Also the whole verse feels like a major catharsis, which is becoming a habit of my outros.
12. Can you pick a favorite bar of yours and describe the genesis of it?
I don’t think I can pick a favorite, but one couplet I love is, “From now until my voice drown, I vow to hold it down / Say Holden, don’t you wait around, say, Scout, take me out.” I just dig the wordplay on the first line, and the second line references Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, two books my dad and I share a love for. I feel like by contextualizing myself with those two characters, both of whom are kids, I’m crediting my dad for teaching me to appreciate reading while also reflecting on my own nostalgia. So it feels like a nice shoutout to him.
13. Do you feel strongly one way or another about punch-ins? Will you whittle a bar down in order to account for breath control, or are you comfortable punching-in so you don’t have to sacrifice any words?
I try not to punch in. I think I’ve only done it on two or three songs before. It’s common for me to write myself into a hole, where I don’t have the breath control to rap what I wrote, but I think I’m getting better at knowing my limits and writing around that by condensing lines. Plus the challenge of writing more concisely makes you a better writer, in my opinion.
14. What non-hiphop material do you turn to for inspiration? What non-music has influenced your work recently?
I’m not as big a reader as I used to be, but when I get writer’s block, which is common, I try to get back into it. Some writers who have inspired me are James Baldwin, Dostoyevsky, David Foster Wallace. But I dig movies too. I find David Lynch, Bong Joon-ho, and Robert Eggers to be inspirational. And lately I’ve been trying to give my albums more of a thesis of some kind, so I’m trying to do more reading and studying topics to put into the music. For the project I’m working on right now I’m thinking about media overconsumption, the perils of technology and its impact on communication, etc.
15. Writers are often saddled with self-doubt. Do you struggle to like your own shit, or does it all sound dope to you?
I’m full of self-doubt as an artist, but I think that mindset leads me to only release music I can be content with. I listen to my stuff pretty frequently before releasing it, then when it’s out, I tend to move on to the next project. I feel like I need to live with the music before I can really claim it as my own and be proud of it, you know?
16. Who’s a rapper you listen to with such a distinguishable style that you need to resist the urge to imitate them?
Definitely woods. Obviously his style can’t be copied (he takes care of his words—Munchausen by proxy), but when Aethiopes dropped, I had to stop listening to it after a few weeks because I didn’t wanna start biting. His tone, humor, and flow are infectious. I’ll put Starker in that category too—I think he has one of the best flows I’ve ever heard.
17. Do you have an agenda as an artist? Are there overarching concerns you want to communicate to the listener?
I don’t have an agenda that extends to the listener. I try not to be didactic, or preachy, or purport to know more than anyone else. My writing is mostly very internal, personal, emotional. It’s common for me to speak in the second person in rhymes, but that’s just a device I use to tell or ask myself something. I’m my own target audience. That being said, I do feel like I tend to write from a very zoomed out perspective, and if that happens to be relatable or evocative to a listener, that’s tight.
RAPS + CRAFTS is a series of questions posed to rappers about their craft and process. It is designed to give respect and credit to their engagement with the art of songwriting. The format is inspired, in part, by Rob McLennan’s 12 or 20 interview series.
Here's 80 of my favorite Rap Albums released in 2025. I tried to narrow the list down but every time I did it felt like I was leaving something important off, so here we are.
Excellent year for Hip Hop overall - Backwoodz had a flood of high quality releases, ShrapKnel put out 3 albums back to back that were all top notch, Tomorrow Kings put out their follow up i've been waiting a decade for, Sunmundi & Sasco made a record that feels like a modern Cold Vein for the late stage internet era (it's that good), Nakama put out one of the most vital and forward thinking rap albums i've heard in a minute, Cool Calm Pete and Yeshua DaPoed made a comeback after being MIA for almost two decades, the Mass Appeal releases were pretty solid, and I discovered some new favorite artists, whether I was hearing them for the first time or was already somewhat familiar and finally decided to fully tap in. Shout out to blackchai, illohiom, Lord OLO, NAHreally, Snotnoze Saleem, Hester Valentine, Shemar, ToadStool, and SOO DO KOO.
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I could do a non hip hop list if anyone is interested too, though that one would be much shorter.
Anyway, feel free to let me know what YOUR favorite albums of 2025 were, regardless of the genre. I want to know what stood out to you the most and if there's anything I may have missed. Oh, and clicking the album titles below should take you to the bandcamp page where you can listen to it. Peace.
1. Billy Woods - GOLLIWOG (+ August Fanon version
2. Sunmundi & Sasco - Contacting
3. Nakama. - EVERYTHING BURNS!
4. Gabe 'Nandez & Preservation - Sortilège
5. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette (+ I Heard It's A Mess There Too)
6. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy
7. MIKE - Showbiz!
8. Navy Blue - The Sword & The Soaring
9. ShrapKnel & Ohbliv - Armature (also Saisir Le Feu & Lincoln Continental Breakfast)
10. Theravada - THE YEARS WE HAVE
11. Mavi - The Pilot
12. AKAI SOLO - No Control, No Glory
13. Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
14. Yungmorpheus & Dirty Art Club - A Spyglass to One’s Face
15. Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious - The Wolf & The Walrus
16. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love
17. Cities Aviv - The Revolving Star : Archive & Practice 002
18. Tomorrow Kings - SALT
19. McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
20. blackchai & illohim - PATHFINDERS
21. Premrock - Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?
22. Shemar - emerge "n" see
23. Sleep Sinatra - TIMESOFPERIL
24. Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 2
25. Lord OLO & TELEVANGEL - Demon Slayer 2
26. NAHreally - Secret Pancake
27. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream
28. Little Simz - Lotus
29. R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal - The Night Green Side of It
30. $ilkMoney - WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE…
31. Defcee & Parallel Thought - Other Blues
32. Hester Valentine - I AM THE FEMALE WEEZY
33. pink siifu - Black’!Antique
34. Jak Tripper X Aloeight - Toadmilk 2
35. Snotnoze Saleem - A River Dies of Thirst
36. Henry Canyons & Fresh Kils - Educated Guesses
37. SOO DO KOO & andrew - FUZZY DUNLOP
38. ToadStool - TIME OUTREACHES ANY DISTANCE
39. al.divino - THE BEST HAS YET TO HAPPEN
40. J.U.S & Raphy - Treasures
41. Cise Greeny - EARTHBOUND
42. ILL Conscious - The Aggregation Of Marginal Gains
43. Mary Sue - Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword
44. De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky
45. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - A City Drowned in God's Black Tears
46. Dangerous Creatures (King Kashmere & Mimski) - Dead Earth 1.0
47. Myka 9 & Blu - God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools
48. GDP & Fatboi Sharif - ENDOCRINE
49. Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food From the Gods
50. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2
51. Junclassic & Uncommon Nasa - Music to My Eyes
52. YL, Phiik, Lungs & Ill Sugi - Bad News
53. Henny L.O. & Ewonee - The Coldest Season Ever
54. T H R O N E x New Villain x Wafflejax - TROIKA
55. Jesse the Tree - Worm In Heaven
56. AJ Suede, Lord OLO, & TELEVANGEL - Relinquished
57. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
58. Zilla Rocca - FAST EDDIE
59. Kevin Venom - Congratulations
60. The Expert - Vivid Visions
61. crushr.records - TRAUMA BONDS
62. Rap Man Gavin and LU! - Scrolling Through The Doom
63. Domo Genesis & Graymatter - Scram!
64. Raz Fresco & Futurewave - Stadium Lo Champions
65. Doseone & Steel Tipped Dove - All Portrait, No Chorus
66. SOO DO KOO - FAITH AND A HAMMER
67. Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion of Being
68. Killah Priest - Abraxas 2
69. Rich Jones & Good Food - Comemos
70. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven - Criminally Attached
71. Deniro Farrar & Child Actor - Raw Materials
72. DMH - FULLY TUCKED
73. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire - Vol. 2 The Y.O.Uprint
74. Wave Generators - RUN AWAY WITH A WILD AND A RARE ONE
75. Oh No - Nodega
76. Fresh Daily & Parental - These Things Take Time
77. Fatboi Sharif & Driveby - Let Me Out
78. Mick Jenkins - A MURDER OF CROWS
79. Vic Spencer & August Fanon - Psychological Cheat Sheet 6
80. Daniel Son & Futurewave - Baggage Claims
Favorite Albums/EPs of 2025 so far. I meant to do this right at the end of june right at the midyear point, but it's a good thing I didn't since last friday ended up being such a huge day for new releases. I cannot recommend Contacting by Sunmundi and Sasco enough, elite level rapping and production that deserves far more attention than it's gotten so far. As always, i'll do a completely separate list of my favorite hip hop albums of 2025 at the end of the year for anyone who is interested.
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What are your favorite albums so far this year? If you think there’s something i might’ve missed or your picks aren't on here, let me know. Peace.
1. Billy Woods - GOLLIWOG
2. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette
3. Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
4. Sunmundi & Sasco - Contacting
5. McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
6. Little Simz - Lotus
7. Messa - The Spin
8. Yeule - evangelic girl is a gun
9. Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
10. Defcee & Parallel Thought - Other Blues
11. Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar
12. The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want To See You In Heaven
13. Mike - Showbiz!
14. Premrock - Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?
15. Mary Sue - Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword
16. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
17. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream
18. Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
19. al.divino - THE BEST HAS YET TO HAPPEN
20. Natalia Lafourcade - Cancionera
21. Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Late to My Own Funeral
22. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Carpe Diem, Moonman
23. Jak Tripper x Aloeight - Toadmilk 2
24. Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
25. Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
26. Henny L.O. & ewonee - The Coldest Season Ever
27. Infinity Knives - A City Drowned in God's Black Tears
28. Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food From the Gods
29. Tropical Fuck Storm - Fairyland Codex
30. Erika de Casier - Lifetime
31. yugen blakrok - The Illusion of Being
32. Sasha Berliner - Fantôme
33. Kutmah - Sacred Conversations
34. TURQUOISEDEATH - Guardian
35. Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts
36. FKA twigs - Eusexua
37. Raz Fresco & Futurewave - Stadium Lo Champions
38. Mei Semones - Animaru
39. Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams - Trainspotting
40. Fielded - Chuckles Deluxe
41. Mateus Aleluia - Mateus Aleluia
42. Fines Double - Espejismo
43. pink siifu - Black’!Antique
44. Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
45. pinkpantheress - Fancy That
46. Kali Uchis - Sincerely,
47. GLARE - Sunset Funeral
48. Vauruvã - Mar da Deriva
49. Lord Snow - Have You Heard of the High Elves
50. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
51. Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone
52. SUMAC & Moor Mother - The Film
53. Baan - neumann
54. Yeshua dapoED - ITTO = I'LL TAKE THOSE ODDS
55. GDP & Fatboi Sharif - Endocrine
56. kuyuru - Lovescape
64 of my favorite Hip Hop releases of 2024
Anything outside of the top 20-30 the order doesn't really matter much, but I think all of these releases are dope and worth your time. I'll post another list soon with the rest of my favorite albums from this year in other genres, but the hip hop list is tradition for me at this point. Hopefully there's something new here for you to enjoy. I'm sure there's a few releases that went under the radar for me, so if anyone has suggestions i'm all ears. As always, the album titles below will have the bandcamp link/spotify url as a hyperlink if either are available.
Oh yeah, feel free to let me know what your favorite albums of the year were, i'd like to know - any genre, it doesn't have to just be hip hop. Peace.
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1. ELUCID - REVELATOR
2. Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus
3. AKAI SOLO - DREAMDROPDRAGON
4. Mach-Hammy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN
5. Cavalier - Different Type Time
6. The Fortunate Ones (Anwar HighSigh & Dr. Quandary) - RESIN
7. Armand Hammer - BLK LBL
8. Kenny Segal & K-The-I??? - Genuine Dexterity
9. ShrapKnel - Nobody Planning To Leave
10. Sunmundi & klwn cat - Lived and Born
11. Nakama - EMBERGO_
12. Lee Scott - To Tame A Dead Horse
13. Dead Players - Faster Than the Speed of Death
14. Oliver The 2nd & Heather Grey - Desert Camo
15. Navy Blue - Memoirs in Armour
16. Nuse Tyrant - Juxtaposed Echoes
17. Phiik & Lungs - Carrot Season
18. Nickelus F - MMCHT
19. DJ Muggs & Raz Fresco - The Eternal Now
20. Joshua Virtue - Black Box: JOSHUA IS DEAD
21. Duncecap & Steel Tipped Dove - The Need To Know
22. Jak Tripper - The Wild Dark
23. Mary Sue - Voice Memos From A Winter In China
24. Midnight Sons - Money Has No Owners
25. Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching
26. JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
27. Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across The Tracks
28. Sasco - The Hottest Year on Record
29. yungmorpheus - WAKING UP AND CHOOSING VIOLENCE
30. Hester Valentine - Valenta
31. Deca & Deal. - Bough
32. Serengeti - KDIV
33. Mavi - Shadowbox
34. cunabear - What Dollar$ Can't Buy You
35. Rap Man Gavin & postureless - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
36. Sadistik & Maulskull - Oblivion Theater
37. Oddisee - And Yet Still
38. Roc Marciano - MARCIOLOGY
39. Noveliss & Hir-O - Cyberpunk Rhapsody
40. Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia
41. Rich Jones & SINAI. - Sour Dub
42. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce
43. Vince Staples - Dark Times
44. Javi Darko - DEATH OF AN IMMORTAL
45. bromethugzine - THUG ZINE issue 002: WORLD-SPIRIT
46. Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious - The Pride & Glory
47. Nxworries - WHY LAWD?
48. Cavalier & Quelle Chris - Death Tape 2
49. R.A.P. Ferreira - The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap
50. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
51. Lt Headtrip X Bloodmoney Perez - EMBLEMS
52. Chuck Strangers - A Forsaken Lover's Plea
53. Daniel Son & Futurewave - BUSHMAN BODEGA
54. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball
55. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
56. Estee Nack - SYSTEMATICALLY WE WERE NEVER FREE
57. Ja'king the Divine - Children of the Scorned
58. Big Flowers x Messiah Musik - Save The Bees
59. Shape - Midnight Geometry
60. Sleep Sinatra & bloomcycle - Memory(ummm…)
61. Skyzoo - Keep Me Company
62. Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1
63. NAHreally & The Expert - BLIP
64. IMP - Idle Hands
