Moments in Timelessness

Lotus Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Little Simz In the two and a half years since 2022’s  NO THANK YOU , Little Simz attempted to write its follow-up four times, to no avail. From the outside, the London native was at the top of her game. Since 2021’s game-changing fourth album,  Sometimes I Might Be Introvert , she’d won a Mercury Prize, owned the Glastonbury stage, and earned a spot among the power players of UK rap. But privately, her personal life was imploding. In 2025, word spread of the lawsuit Simz had filed against Inflo, the childhood friend and longtime collaborator who’d produced her last three albums, for allegedly failing to repay a 1.7-million-pound loan. The betrayal left the rapper at a loss, as she recounts on “Lonely”: “Sitting in the studio with my head in my hands/Thinking what am I to do with this music I can’t write?” From this turmoil, the 31-year-old musician arrived at a breakthrough that manifests on her sixth album,  Lotus —named for the flower that t...

NAPISZ JAK BĘDZIESZ Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Sobel

HOME? Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Wretch 32 Like cotton on my skin We skin to skin rubbing on eachother  Baby you ain't my kin but ima be your king and you gon be my queen I got a fire in me I bet you the only one that can tame it Kiss me to sleep, kiss me to wake I'm now awake to the light within Show me your brighter side Your splendid side, baby your scrumptuous side When I say I love you i mean it to my depth You are my motif I hold to the depth

Excelsior Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Benny the Butcher Old cash got invested into a new dilemma Young pap told me to make a good choice out of every dilemma The more I sit in silence the more I feel I'm in Asia  Let's make a love line and call it telepathy To tell empathy we love her so dearly telempathy Baby my love is unconditioned Let's make it starry And if the soil we stand on can hear us we may call it starry And if the stars we looking at can hear us we may call it starry too  2x2 I four I mean fall in love for you

Welcome to Fazoland (Anniversary Edition) Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 G Herbo On his first mixtape, Chicago rapper G Herbo eschews the heavy percussion of Chicago drill. Instead he floats on soulful sounds, like the chopped-up sample that forms the beat of “Fight or Flight” or the sped-up Stylistics loop that drives the somber and touching “Write Your Name.” At its core, the album is massively heartfelt, most notably when Herbo finds his way back to his family, like on “Momma I’m Sorry.”

From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Saba   &   No ID In his mid-to late twenties, Chicago rapper Saba earned a gold plaque for fan favorite “Photosynthesis,” performed on late-night TV, and made songs with rap greats like Black Thought and J. Cole. So, after a trio of thematically focused solo albums, his record with hip-hop production wizard No ID (Common, JAY-Z, Kanye West) finds him taking a confident, freewheeling approach. “Who is the GOAT, I wanna go toe to toe with it/’Cause I just know I’m not second to no n****s,” he proclaims on “Woes of the World.” That doesn’t mean that he can’t still hold a subject though: “head.rap” pays homage to Black hair and his own locs, “Crash” romantically invites a woman to stay the night, and “How to Impress God” ponders spiritual fulfillment in light of his success. The synergy with his fellow Chicagoan is undeniable: No ID’s blend of bright piano keys and expertly chopped samples always hits, giving...

Never Catch Us Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Curren$y   &   Harry Fraud The partnership between heavy-lidded New Orleans rapper Curren$y and soul-sampling New Yorker Harry Fraud goes back to 2012’s  Cigarette Boats , but really picked up in 2018 with a string of albums and EPs whose vague thematic unifiers—motorboats, marinas, a little crime, a lotta chillin’—constitute catnip for a certain kind of rap fan. With a couple of threatening exceptions (the Conway-featuring “Money Magnet,” the 03 Greedo and Styles P guest spots on “True Lies”), the mood is low-key and light, the rap equivalent of easy listening or lounge music. These guys don’t want anything to do with the mainstream; they just want to keep their cottage industry humming, preferably from the beach. As the refrain to “Airport Industries” goes, “Silver screen, finer things, my whole team, my only dream.” Be like a boat and float.

2 VS ALL (Luce) Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Rayan   &   Intifaya

The Final Call Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Dave East   &   Ransom Classic East Coast vibes reign when two titans pair up.

Drama Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Jeff Redd

Maybe in Nirvana Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Smino The St. Louis rapper does a bit of self-exploration on his soulful fourth album.

Living Proof Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Dave East   &   araabMUZIK With a few collaborations on Dave East’s 2019 debut album,   Survival , and 2023’s   Fortune Favors the Bold , the rapper and producer araabMUZIK displayed a near-telepathic shared vision. The duo decided to expand on that spirit in 2024, linking up for an entire project together, titled   Living Proof . With East on the mic and the Dipset affiliate handling the beats,   Living Proof   is a psychedelic tour de force equal parts grounded in the streets and drifting off into alternate realities. On opener “Percocet,” East shouts out his producer and highlights his own entrepreneurial spirit. He raps, “Araab in my top five/They microwave, we cookin’ strong,” before adding, “They never seen a gangsta look this good, come take a pic of this.” The vibes remain immaculate on “Roll Up,” a weed anthem backed by a soulful vocal chop from araabMUZIK. East declares, “Every time I hop out, the badde...

I Just Got A Lot On My Shoulders Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Eminem: The Coup De Grace Mix (DJ Mix) Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Scram Jones How many Eminem lyrics do you have bouncing around in your head? It’s probably more than you think, but however many it is, it’s unlikely anywhere near as many as celebrated producer, DJ, and radio personality Scram Jones. Jones has, of course, collaborated with Em, producing “In Your Head” for   Revival , as well as performing the scratches on Em’s “Berzerk” and “Kamikaze,” but he was a fan long before he became a collaborator. “When I was in college, I stumbled on a random unlabeled cassette with two of his songs on it [‘Just the Two of Us’ and ‘Just Don’t Give a Fuck’],” Jones says. “‘Just the Two of Us’ has to be one of the most clever records ever written; rapping in baby talk to his infant daughter about her mother being in the trunk on the way to dumping her in the ocean—beyond clever. And once I heard ‘Just Don’t Give a Fuck,’ I realized this guy   really   don’t give a fuck. I was an instan...

You Only Die 1nce Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Freddie Gibbs Aside from a few stray comedy bits involving the devil, there’s nothing terribly frightening about Freddie Gibbs’ Halloween 2024 drop   You Only Die 1nce . Still, coming some two years after 2022’s lauded major-label venture   $oul $old $eparately , his long-awaited follow-up proves quite the treat for devotees of the Midwest-bred MC’s razor-sharp raps. From its tangent-following opener “Status” on, he feeds the fanbase with reliably reckless and resonant bars. His penchant for going hard over laidback beats persists here, via the pot-scraped narratives of “Brick Fees” and the violent world-building of “Steel Doors.” Even when gunshots ring out on the 454-produced “Walk It Off,” he’s cool, calm, and collected, singing as much as rapping his way through the narco tale. Acknowledging some of the tabloid fodder that makes its way to his social media, “It's Your Anniversary” brushes off baby-mama drama and scoffs at rappers to...

24 на всех Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Jamik

Throwing Bows Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Monaleo Houston’s rap princess isn’t playing around.

8 роздумів Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 OTOY

  LIL PEEP; PART ONE Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Lil Peep

Alles muss repariert werden Album ∙ Hip-Hop ∙ 2024 Antilopen Gang