2018 may go down as the best year of the 2010s for Hip-Hop releases. It’s been a year to be known for the sheer volume of great albums, with so many dropping that it’s been a challenge keeping up. While it’s great to see the culture thriving with so many artists putting out new music,…
Category: Album Reviews
Top 30 Hip-Hop Albums of 2018: #20-11
2018 may go down as the best year of the 2010s for Hip-Hop releases. It’s been a year to be known for the sheer volume of great albums, with so many dropping that it’s been a challenge keeping up. While it’s great to see the culture thriving with so many artists putting out new music,…
Top 30 Hip-Hop Albums of 2018: #30-21
2018 may go down as the best year of the 2010s for Hip-Hop releases. It’s been a year to be known for the sheer volume of great albums, with so many dropping that it’s been a challenge keeping up. While it’s great to see the culture thriving with so many artists putting out new music,…
Top 20 Hip-Hop Albums of 2017
It’s that time of year again! For those who haven’t been following on Facebook or Twitter, the good folks at CulturedVultures.com let me curate their Top 20 Hip-Hop albums of the year list. There have been so many new albums to drop this year, and I was spending so much time listening to artists I…
Tag-Team Album Review: OtherWise Known – After Hours
Last year I got Great Mathias from The Mathias Doctrine (renamed Spinesthesia) and Wayne Maye from Wayne’s Hip Hop Blog to do a joint review of Nova Major’s mixtape Whatever It…[TAKES]. This time, Nova (now going by Otto Major)’s group OtherWise Known has released their debut album, After Hours. While Wayne couldn’t make it this time, I brought back…
The Countdown (In Review): My Top 20 Favourite Albums of 2014
Happy Holidays to all! For those who couldn’t keep up with the daily countdown, I have all of the entries listed below. Click on the albums to read the reviews! Also look out for my Top Concerts of the Year list dropping on New Years Eve! Honourable Mentions #20 Ab-Soul – These Days… (B-) #19 Joell…
My #1 Favourite Album of 2014: Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P) – Run The Jewels 2
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Much like the cover art suggests, Killer Mike & El-P just stole the spotlight when they dropped the sequel to their very successful Run The Jewels album. Everything was awesome…
My #2 Favourite Album of 2014: PRhyme (DJ Premier & Royce Da 5’9″) – PRhyme
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Those who checked out my PRhyme review on CulturedVultures.com knew this was coming. DJ Premier is considered by most to be an all-time hip-hop legend, and Royce Da 5’9″ is…
My #3 Favourite Album of 2014: ¡Mayday! & Murs – ¡MursDay!
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* This album came out of nowhere and rocked my summer. Sometime in the first or second quarter of the year it was announced that underground hip-hop veteran Murs had signed…
My #4 Favourite Album of 2014: Army of the Pharaohs – In Death Reborn
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* In Death Reborn is the first wave of attack Army of the Pharaohs cast on hip-hop this year, as they released this album in April and then Heavy Lies The…
My #5 Favourite Album of 2014: Ces Cru – Codename: Ego Stripper
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* After last year’s very successful Constant Energy Struggles, Ces Cru is keeping up the momentum with their second album on Strange Music, Codename: Ego Stripper. Some might see the word…
My #6 Favourite Album of 2014: Apathy – Connecticut Casual
*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Timing is everything; this album may not have had the impact of some of the previous entries on the countdown, but it was the soundtrack to my whole summer. As…