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[dustedmagazine]

Lost in the (Billy) Woods: Ray Garraty’s Year in Hip Hop

Some years, you want to check more new music. Other years, you don’t.  2022 was one of the latter.  As always, music journalists race to name the Next Big Thing, but when you go check it and it turns out Not a Big Thing at all. And the next big thing, you just walk past it.

In the rush to discover something else, people don’t properly follow an artist they discovered a month ago. Yet, often, the artists they gave up mature, get better or even reinvent themselves. Nobody pays enough attention to those artists. We have fewer and fewer listeners and more and more streaming platform passengers. Thus, this year it seemed that nobody properly listened to Louie Ray, Bandgang Lonnie Bands, Chief Keef, even though they created their best music right NOW. For most listeners, they belong to past years.

That is why I was dreading the 2022 end of the year lists. I was sure that we’d get two types of lists. The first would be hype lists, full of Hot New Artists nobody will remember after January 1. The other would be those created by and for a highbrow, white, middle-class public who wants its rap to be “smart.” Thus, we get thousands of lists full of billy woods and the like, which is only good to show your college professor how brainy your music tastes are.

Anyway, 2022 had plenty of good hip hop music. Probably the best music this year was the one we didn’t get to listen to. Boyz Ent, a label holding Rio Da Yung Og catalogue, had some managerial trouble, and despite the promises from the CEO we got only two new songs by Rio (not counting his EPs with Boog and Wayne616). Which is a shame. On to the next one!

Best releases of the year

Louie Ray — My Signature (Still Grinding)

Kookei — Mr. Incredible (H$G)

Bandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone — Shottas (TF Distribution)

Wayne616 — Grease Files (Still Grinding)

Z Money — Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)

Best tracks

Roc Marciano — Bubble Bath

Kookei  — Chris Brown

Z Money  —  Bounce Back

BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone — 3 Kids

Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG  —  Sneak the Balls in

Rio Da Yung OG — Professional Shit Talker

Louie Ray —  Back Home

Chief Keef — Bitch Where

Best production

Sav: Kookei  — Chris Brown

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone—Greatest Bome Back

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone —3 Kids

Fre$co: Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG — Sneak the Balls in

???: Louie Ray — Crazy 22

Best produced albums

Louie Ray — My Signature

Wayne616 – Grease Files

Non rap releases

Apogeion — Astrolatria I: Initiatio

Blood Chalice — The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism

Ignorance of the year

Bizarre — He Got a Gun 

ShredGang Mone’s verse on “3 Kids”

Bizarre, of D12 fame, was long ago discarded as a washed up Eminem sidekick by ‘serious’ rap fans. But he steadily releases new music, of the weirdest and goofiest type. Imagine the worst B-movie, and Bizarre will surpass it with over-the-top amount of ignorance.

Mone on his verse claims he robs rappers, and ironically, his partner Lonnie Bands got his chain took this year. One has to wonder if it was Mone’s job.

Ray Garraty

[zarla-s]

TF2 is free-to-play, but f2p players can't use voice commands or the chat, meaning they can't call for Medic. During a round of MvM a while back, I saw a Scout calling a Medic for an f2p player! It was just a weirdly sweet moment. Little things like that are my favorite part of playing TF2, haha.

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[softerhaze]

oh yeah, it's go time 🚲🏃‍♀️

someone save her.......PLEASE

[mrmanbat]

In honor of me officially becoming old and gen beta being born in about a month, you get to get my brainrot Batman headcannons.

Tim- I have the least hope for Tim. He’s worse than me. I like to think he’d be at a WE meeting and would accidentally say something like “L- get radioed” without even noticing.

Steph- doesn’t hold back. She says “chat” so often that Jason has started to think she’s talking to her imaginary friend “Chat.” She’s almost as bad as Tim but is able to hold back in professional settings.

Duke- is aware of it- uses it very sparingly unless Tim and/or Steph are making fun of someone, at that point he joins and will shred someone *cough* Jason *cough* to shreds.

Damian- finds it annoying and dumb most of the time HOWEVER I can totally see him using gen-z slang, especially in school. I can also see him taking a shit on the riddler by calling him the anti rizzler.

Cass- only uses it on criminals she’s already detained. Especially if she did without making a noise. She finds it hilarious when a criminal gets taken down in less then five seconds by a black blur with faint Chappell Roan music in the background only for the the black form to whisper “queen never cry” before disappearing again.

Jason- has no clue what it is or why his siblings are yelling “you’ve gyatt to go” and “- 10 aura” across roof tops whenever they see him on patrol.

[dollya-robinprotector]

Done with my first batch of color sketch commissions!! (CLOSED)

I'll sleep a bit before starting to do the second batch. Anyone who hasn't sent me the refs and notes for order, please do so before I wake up! (This is a threat)

Target: 150/300$ (Yay! Halfway through! I hope this amount is enough!)

[theactualsunshinechild]

Aventurine really is the Tragedy to Sampo's classic Comedy and that's why I'm so obsessed with both of them

Please I want my faves to meet and bankrupt a casino together. It would be such a great bonding activity

[doodleimprovement]

Emmet but he's in the next Legends game and he teaches you various game mechanics including a first for the series: Melee Combat

He gets a sword because I said so

[blogalahezy]

[azelmaandeponine]

I can't wait to get lost in Lumiose City again, the hardest dungeon in any Pokémon game.

[forevermorgue]

First cameo I bought for myself...

and it's fucking PRINCESS TRUNKS BABYYYY.

Thank you Scott, you're amazing, I love your work, and I will die a happy man.

(And as soon as I am no longer broke, I will give you a fucking tip because atjskydkfkydjy I asked for so little, and you gave EVERYTHING. 🥺😭🙏💕 I got a triple whammy of 1-the line I asked you to say to Dragon Ball Super Broly. 2-nostalgia for when you guys were making DBZ abridged and I'd get so hyped for the new episode. 3-my new favorite Trunks, flustered awkward accidental flirting Trunks. Thank you, and may you find a random $20 bill on the ground every week for the rest of your life. 💗)

[gen-z-culture-is]

gen z culture is memeing about mental issues you know you have while refusing to see a therapist because therapy cost money but memes are free

[zylphiacrowley]

Don't actually spoil anything for me, because I do intend to play it at some point... but how is Veilguard? Like I kept hearing your old choices don't matter, is that putting a damper on the whole thing? Does it feel fine without that? Like don't tell me anything about the story, I just want to know if people feel like they're getting their money's worth out of it.

[zarla-s]

I saw this post about how Engie was probably born into generational wealth and I can't stop thinking about it.

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[zeb-z]

see ok I don’t think it’s bad who stole the furniture because he didn’t go to f5 and zoom in on himself a billion times

[harlotish]

Anyone who thinks that his unibrow couldn’t have grown back in 5 days clearly isn’t Italian and doesn’t understand how fast our hair grows lmao