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[dustedmagazine]

The Year the Stars Crashed: Ray Garraty’s 2023 in Rap

Peezy is writing the most disgusting rap in 2023

Let’s be honest: we can’t just have exciting years in music. The year people stepped on the Moon was more exciting than the one when they didn’t. We love to cheer when during a year we discover new talents, when we are buried under tons of great stuff which just keeps coming. But we shoegaze when our favorite musicians fall off. We tend to stay silent about it.

And in 2023 I mostly watched artists I admired go wrong. It was painful and embarrassing but also sobering. It is a price artists pay when they enter this game. They are creative and genius and entertaining until they are just not.

Mac J was hooked on the Auto-Tune, so his latest tapes were full of bad singing and not very good lines. EST Gee and Lil Yachty went even more mainstream which in political terms would mean far far right. The Alchemist did a lot of production for the artists that don’t deserve it. ShittyBoyz drifted aimlessly, and their best album this year is not even under their name (it’s Lando Bando’s Family Business). Cash Kidd is not so funny anymore (kid you not). BandGang Lonnie Bands got too caught up in his mind games.

Yet it is Peezy and Valee who had the most embarrassing fall in 2023. Which is hardly surprising for those who have followed them since day one. Valee now is a proper elevator music artist, filling his anemic songs with AI-generated lines. Peezy, top-5 worldwide just a few years ago,  is now writing the most disgusting rap music, and he even admitted that. Signs of rot were visible in both last year, so nothing really new is here.

I just kept trying to follow the ones I liked (mostly Michigan-based), and the one who grew up from a Rio Da Yung OG sidekick (and a blood brother) to a fully mature artist with his own unique style is Louie Ray. While Rio is still locked up, Louie Ray is keeping his torch. I enjoyed nothing more this year than his solo tapes, and his collabs with YN Jay. Let’s hope the next year will be better than this one.

Ray Garraty

Tapes

Cellow — Ghetto Takeover

Rio Da Yung OG — The F Tape

Louie Ray — Even Stronger/We Still Don’t Grind The Same

Rio Da Yung OG, GrindHard E, RMC Mike — Ed, Edd n Eddy

Lando Bando — Family Business

Philthy Rich — King of Oakland

Mike, Wiki & The Alchemist — Faith Is A Rock

Production

Wayne616 — Talkin Crazy (Rio Da Yung Og)

Marc Boomin — No Big Homie (Rio and RMC Mike)

The Alchemist — Scrabble Jam (MIKE and Wiki)

Kmoney — Heads (Rio, Louie Ray, RMC Mike, GrindHard E)

Sav — The Getback (Rio, RMC Mike, GrindHard E)

Danny G — Dirty Pop (Rio, StanWill)

??? — Special (Cash Kidd, OhGeesy)

Wayne616 — April 14th (Louie Ray)

[aktionpak]

I was gardening in the rain next to a massive lake this afternoon and got sad-sack frustrated a couple of times because i was wearing work gloves and couldn't press my rubber fingers on the skip button. Past the songs i don't want/need to hear anymore. Because there are only so many hours in the day for music that kicks me in the teeth just the way i like.

So i started thinking about creating a playlist. Favourite songs. Forever songs. The best songs. Ride or die songs.

But when a mental list turns into 300 songs before i even look at screens or physical media. And what do i do with all the the sounds i love that are like 20 minutes long and just hang out in the air like some of the best music does? This recent Richard Youngs album is a wonderful thing. And a good example. I could never put it on a playlist to share with my ALTERNATIVE ROCK-loving car friends. Or maybe i could try it.

Like many from the dozens of albums by Richard Youngs, this one almost works best if you walk into it part way through, without any context. There is so much confidence in Youngs' way of casually hanging around a concept until it is just almost about to overstay its welcome and turn into a stale lump. But he never overstays. **subscribers to the cdr sub. series might say different*

I keep thinking about this new Lower Plenty record. Songs one and two hit hard up front. Instant pop and then a journey into a new emotional thing. i've had the album on regularly and still don't have a proper grasp of it.

Every Lower Plenty record has a handful of all-timers.

jfk this man is a force

[end-of-violence]

2024ラップ②

G.T. / Dog Out a Pup

Babyface Ray / Money On My Mind

Babyface Ray / Shy Kid

Babyface Ray / Glory

Sada Baby / Flight Back

Damedot / LIE TO MY FACE

Los / Above The Law

Peezy x Nice / Harlem

42 Dugg / Win Wit Us

YN Jay / I Ain't Done Yet

ShutupShy / Still Lit

Chief Keef / Runner

Ballout / Big Glo Flow

Lil Migo / Hello Kitty

Baby Jamo / 6 Foot Chaser

QuisActive / Order Up

Paco Panama / Ezal

HavinMotion / Vibe 2

Skino / FDM

Traphard Swagg / 2 in 2

Lil Wet feat. Wizz Havinn / Sexii Redd

Wizz Havinn / Loco

Wizz Havinn / Tunka Truck

BossMan Dlow Ft. GloRilla / Finesse (Remix)

ATM Tana / Keep Movin

Fatpocket / Live From The Trenches

C Stunna & Skrilla / Curtis Jackson

J1 & Kickkone / Squeeze

Tyte, Trigga500k / Motion

Loe Shimmy feat. Luh Tyler / Aretha Franklin

Loe Shimmy feat. Veeze / Dirty Soda Junkie

ALLBLACK / R.I.P. DRAKEO

Carns Hill ft Knucks X Youngs Teflon / COLOURS

アルバム

Chief Keef & Mike WiLL Made-It / Dirty Nachos

Chif Keef / Almighty So 2

Ballout / No Radio

Lil Flash / Did You Miss Me or You Ain't Care?

D30 / Snakes & Vultures

Junie3x / Way 2 Late

GloRilla / Ehhthang Ehhthang

Woodboy Gee / King Hawk 2

Medhane / Double or Nothing

MIKE & Tony Seltzer / Pinball

Bandgang Lonnie Bands / Antimedia

Bandgang Masoe / Wst

Drego & Beno / True Story

LOM Rudy & Allstar JR / Casino Bag

Damedot / PURPLEHARDT

Ace Cino / 5 Letterz

Payroll Giovanni / Have Money Have Heart - EP

Jugg Harden / Detroit USA

Jugg Harden / Get the Blicky 2.0

Prince Jefe / Tunnel Vision

Prince Jefe / Warwoundzz - EP

Shaudy Kash / The FABUR EP

Wtm Solid / Bigg

Wanski / Back From the Dead

Los / Last In Love

Rio Da Yung OG / Rio Circa 2020

Bfb Da Packman / Forget Me Not

Baby Money / H.I.M. (Hutsle In Me)

Trdee / The Greatest

J1hunnit / Nevermind, I'll Do It - EP

Mack Nickles / Quit While I'm Winning

World Tour Mafia / Tourmania 2

WTM Scoob / Scoob Wav

Pretty Brayah / Unstable

CoffeeBlack & WTM Scoob / Love at First Sight?

Certified Trapper / Trappernese

Yung Threat / Inlilahkitrust

Tae Dawg / Ooze World Order

Lil Gray / Gray

Skino / Youth Madness

Paco Panama / Southside Sopranos

HavinMotion / Motion

HavinMotion / Trappin In Beverly

3o$oma / Jedi Temple - EP

ST6 JodyBoof / Riding W Boof - EP

3coMMa$ / Heavy Rotation 3

KP SKYWALKA / Back To Granny's

Yung Maaly / Clutch Almighty

Situation Slim / Draggin & Havin

EBK Lulmaxx / Do It For Maxx 2

EBK BCKDOE / BlueMoney Music

EBK Lulmaxx / Product of The J - EP

GS Ash & EBK BCKDOE / 3 Doe's Down

GS Ash & SSRichh33 / 3300 Degrees

GS Ash & SSRichh33 / The Redacted Files 2

GS Ash & OsosubkaK / The Joy of Creation

KT8Deuce / Portlands Most Valuable Ghetto Juvenile

KT8Deuce / Aye N***a

adfrmysb / Forever Hate - EP

kpkeeparoll / Born a Steppa

Mozzy / CHILDREN OE THE SLUMS

J. Stalin / Me vs Me 2

Yhung T.O. / AFTER THE FAME

Yhung T.O. & Lil Sheik / Ballin Like Tutu

ALLBLACK / ROUND 1

Big Sad 1900 & MikeMadeThe808's / The Separation

Doddie Savage / Mr Blitz'em 2

Fl6ixer / Web Ya Block

キーフ2024

[thehotboxsocial]

Rio Da Yung OG: Deep Features

Rio’s been sitting down for over a year now but lucky for us he left with almost 1000 songs in the form of solo albums, loosies, whole ass collabo tapes with RMC Mike and hella features. Yes your boy Rio hit the feature market hard which helped keep his 4 pockets full of somebody’s stimulus money in between fat Empire checks. And funny thing is when a rapper as in demand as Rio does 100′s of features with random rappers all across the country, some of them actually turn out fire. For the purposes of this comp we stick with the deepest of those appearances, which I have scientifically defined as under 100K youtube views. I haven’t check the Spotify numbers but my guess is a lot of these are not available at all on the service. The exception is “New Blender”, which at 320K views, has taken a life of its own through the various mashups and edits from Rio’s cult fans. His 2019-2021 run was really one of the best in a minute and now is the perfect time to catch up on some lesser known tracks. Free Rio!

Raw [Tony Rose feat. Rio Da Yung OG & Kasher Quon]

WOW! [Gringhard E feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

Talk Crazy Pt. 2 [OJ Nineteen feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

Step Brothers [3200 Tre & Rio Da Yung OG]

4 For 4 [Stingray & Rio Da Yung OG]

New Blender [HBlocc Duke & Rio Da Yung OG]

Wock Flow [Kash Addict feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

We Started That [Hazomadeit feat. Rio Da Yung OG, Louie Ray & YN Jay]

Dope Fiend [Foxxx Jugg feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

Do My Dance [Dotty Diablo, Lil Blood & Rio Da Yung OG]

Blow It [Big Swag, Rio Da Yung OG & Louie Ray]

Rey Mysterio [YN Jay ft. Rio Da Yung OG]

Free 80's [Six Ward Von feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

100 Shots [Lil Mexiko feat. Rio Da Yung OG]

We Rich [Los feat. Veeze & Rio Da Young OG]

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[aloadedgatinmyknapsack]

2022. 25 ALBUMS

Par ordre alphabétique. Un projet par artiste.

The RIP lists now, hard to even take its measure.

AJ Suede x Televangel - Metatron’s Cube / Seattle

Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Scorpions Eyes / DE

Billy Woods - Aethiopes / NY

Boldy James x Real Bad Man - Killing Nothing / DE x LA

Chippass - Still Here / OAK

Dj Lucas x Papoo2004 x Subjxt5 - Continuous Improvement / NY x NJ

Icewear Vezzo - Paint The City / DE

Ka -  Languish Arts / Woeful Studies / NY

Louie Ray x YN Jay - Ray & Jay Here To Stay / Flynt

Lingo - Kickin’Dust / OAK

Mac J - True Story / SAC

MM4L Jayy - Hood Medicine (Deluxe Edition) / BR

OTM - Off The Mussle (Deluxe) / LA

Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry / VA

R3 Da Chilliman - Bling Bling Boy / LA

Rio Da Yung OG -  Fiend Lives Matter / Flynt

Sauce Walka - Al Rage Walka / Houston

Scando The Darklord x Mitchell - Blade Talk  / AOK

Skilla Baby -  Detroit Raised Me / DE

Sky Mask Malley - 1200 Timeline / Cleveland

WB Nutty - City Of Addiction / DE

Wiki x Subjxt 5 - Cold Cuts / NY & NJ

Young Bleed - Dare' Iza' God / BR

Young Nudy - EA Monster / ATL

ZMoney - Back 2 the Blender / CHI

[yungxgoldin]

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[dustedandsocial]

Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part2 (rap 1)

Pictured: Shawny Binladen

01. PeeWee LongWay - Shit On Me 02. EBK BCKDOE, SSRICHH33 & Verde Babii - Angry Africans 03. DJ Crazy & Philly Goats - Philly Shake 04. Cash Cobain & Chow Lee - SLIZZY LIKE 05. Drakko Nol & Hezzo - Lock In 06. Shawny Binladen - Blackout Bright 07. Big YAYA - Ashley & Kimberly 08. BEBiii & Shawny Binladen - OTW 09. Guttafoe & Ybk $tash - $tash x Gutta 10. DJ MikeyG & Mori Briscoe - Glitch 11. Four50 & Big YAYA - 3.14 12. BabyTron - Hold Up, Wait! 13. Monaleo - We Not Humping 14. Realstasher.50k - Coming Down 15. Almighy Nigel, RRB Duck & Blessteam Marv - Stretch It Out 16. Tae Rackzz & Pmg rob - Dog shit 17. DaeMoney, Veeze & Lucki - GTA 18. ICYTWAT - Porsche Truck 19. Sexyy Red - Don't Get Beat 20. Kodak Black - I’m So Awesome 21. Trapland Pat - Z Land 22. Babyface Ray - Steak N Lobster 23. Kamaiyah & Sada Baby - Oakland Steppin In Detroit 24. 42 Dugg & EST Gee - Thump Shit 25. Young Nudy - Project X 26. FNF Chop, Sheff G & Young Nudy - Walkdown 27. GloRilla - Blessed 28. Chief Keef - Overhead 29. Quelly Woo, Set Da Trend & Fr33BANDIT - Try Ya Luck 30. Zahsosaa, D Sturdy & DJ Crazy - Shake Dhat

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part3 (rap 2)

Pictured: Veeze

01. Sauce Walka - Dangerous Daringer 02. Shawn Eff, EBK Young Joc, Mac J & ThatBoyDayDay - Grim Reaper 03. Mikeeazybeazy & Icewear Veazzo - Groovy 04. Ace Cino & Kitchen Qleen - L.A In The Morning 05. Say It Ain’t Tone, Sada Baby & UpUp Rich Lo - Been Platinum 06. KCG Josh & Maxo Kream - Choke 07. Spinabenz - Murder Talk, Pt. 3 08. Glockboyz Teejaee - Go 09. Veeze - Let It Fly 10. CEO Trayle - Private Matter 11. CHASETHEMONEY, Babyface Ray & Valee - 99 Problems 12. Jugg Harden & YN Jay - How Yo Bitch Sound 13. Chicken P - Straight To Work 14. Damedot - FUCK YO SUMMER 15. Rio Da Yung Og - Showstopper 16. Drego, Beno & BabyTron - Vaxuum Sealed 17. Los, Nutty & Slime - Ready Rock 18. Baby Smoove - Miss Me 19. Ball Jackson - Fuk Corporate 20. Babyface Ray, Detroit Rap News & Kardiak Films - Santel 33 21. FishXGrits & Sauce Walka - Didn't I 22. SME TAXFREE, RRB Duck, RRB Mel & SME YM - Ayyyye 23. MarijuanaXO - Tris 24. Cashclick Boog & BandGang Lonnie Bands - USE TO MONEY 25. Gallery Provence & ManMan Savage - Dividends 26. BigXthaPlug & Maxo Kream - Safehouse (Remix) 27. Justin Credible & Ohgeesy - Lavish 28. DB.Boutabag - 10PM 29. YOUNG SLO-BE - Track Stars 30. Ralfy the Plug - The Truth Hurts

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part4 (rap 3)

Pictured: Mudbaby Ru

01. Mudbaby Ru - Gun Class 02. Bigkaybeezy & Lil Zay Osama - Glock 9 03. CEO Trayle & Fastmoney Ant - Nightmares & Dreams 04. Real Boston Richey & Future - I Want You 05. MarijuanaXO, Joe pablo, Chicken P & Juicester - 72 Hours 06. Drakeo the Ruler - Slip & Fall 07. QP KO & Baby 9eno - The 1 Not The 2 08. DCG Shun, DCG Bsavv & MoneySign Suede - Get Money 09. Icewear Vezzo - Ace Of Spades 10. Mac J & EBK Young Joc - Her Son Stoopin 11. JG Riff, CartiEarss & No Savage - Carry Em 12. Baby Stone Gorillas & WeezGotti - On To Tha Next 13. Shaudy Kash - All Around The World 14. TeemoK1Up - Backwood Crazy 15. BandGang Lonnie Bands - Crank It Up 16. EBG EJizzle - That's So Raven 17. Daboii & G Perico - No You Not 18. Drego, Prell & Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Laylow Flo 19. Whoppa Wit Da Choppa - Shhh 20. KP SKYWALKA - CANT GET RIGHT 21. Lil Gray - Abuse It 22. Nutso Thugn - UpperKutter 23. Dc2trill, Rio Da Yung Og & Rmc Mike - Vivienne Peacoat 24. Ralfy the Plug & OTM - Everyday A Movie 25. Baby Fifty - Meet you 26. Glock Jones - No Bap 27. Slimesito & Yung Maaly - Get Wicked 28. Smoke Chapo - Havin' The Most 29. Trapnhardo, EST Gee & Icewear Vezzo - Bottom Of The Trap 30. PGF Nuk - Switch Switch

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part5 (rap 4)

Pictured: Starlito

01. Rxknephew - Pocket Knife Nephew 02. Tony Shhnow - Show U 03. Veeze - living goat 04. Z Money - Lyin Oath 05. Texas Boyz - Awready 06. 10Kdunkin - Dj Dont Play No Love Song 07. Bbyafricka - Ronald Reagan 08. Cruddy Murda - Super 09. Bandosupreme, Icebirds & 44Oakboy - Money First 10. Idontknowjeffery & Big Marri - Yn Movement 11. Reace Sosa, O42marky, Mari Montana - ADN 12. WTM Scoob - throw up 13. 2ski & Boofboiicy - YTN 14. Warhol.Ss, CEO Trayle & Dc2trill - Blue 42 15. Hotboi Skullie & Sauce Keyz - Up Dere 16. Sickboyrari - Bow Bow 17. Vip Skylark & Papo2Oo4 - Soho Loft Party 18. Staysie Atoms - U My Son Go To Tha Corner Cuz U Grounded U My Son Go Get The Switch Cuz Bitch U Tried It 19. Surf Gang - Hardy Boyz 20. Icebirds - Throwed 21. Cousin Stizz - Lbs 22. G.T. & Curren$y - Push Start 23. Trapperman Dale - Lies 24. Starlito - Feat. All $tar 25. Gue Wop & Boldy James - Dirty Face 26. Valee & Na-Kel Smith - Kelly Green 27. Realyungphil - Blackout Freestyle 28. Lucki - Fumble 29. Larry June - Corte Madera, Ca 30. Father - Horsepower

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part6 (rap 5)

Pictured: Bbymutha

01. Danger Mouse, Black Thought & MF DOOM - Belize 02. Bbymutha - R U Sure 03. Mavi - Reason! 04. Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Straight & Tall 05. Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire - Bubbleguts 06. Redveil, Fly Anakin & Ovrkast. - Automatic 07. Pink Siifu & Valee - Griptape'!! 08. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - Death Of A Constable 09. Jay Worthy, Larry June, Lndn Drgs & Roc Marciano - Maybe The Next Time 10. Big Cheeko & Mach-Hommy - Spin Off 11. Psalm One & Custom Made - Shadow Work 12. Fly Anakin & Henny L.O. - Dontbeafraid 13. Archibald Slim & Quadry - Surviving 14. Billy Woods & Despot - Versailles 15. E L U C I D - Smile Lines 16. Quelle Chris & Cavalier - Purple Robes 17. Messiah! - Lordy! 18. Yl, Starker & Zoomo - Digits 19. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - Bubble Bath 20. Junglepussy - Mystical 21. Na-Kel Smith - Iloveyou,alright 22. Papo2Oo4 - Show You 23. They Hate Change - Some Days I Hate My Voice 24. Trippjones, Wifigawd & Tony Seltzer - Pressure 25. Monday Night, Heather Grey & Nickelus F - Viral 26. Rome Streetz - 1000 Ecstasy 27. Mike, Wiki & The Alchemist - Be Realistic 28. Ka - Touché 29. Earl Sweatshirt - Old Friend 30. Quelle Chris, Denmark Vessey & J Jig Cicero - Cui Prodest

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part7 (rap 6)

Pictured: Lo.Ceasar (YL & Starker)

01. Lukah, Jason Da Hater, Cities Aviv, Dame Mufasa, Suni Katz, Deener, The Derelick, J Royal & Yasin Allah - RARE FORMULAZ 02. Mach-Hommy, JuJu Gotti & Nicholas Craven - Sans Maquillage 03. Blass 89 & DøøF - Bad Day 04. Veteran! - TroubleWithTheMob 05. kemp dupri & achille - negro marx 06. amani & robalu - gunsmoke 07. Psyche Nah - BROKEN RECORD 08. Hakim - Chef's Kiss 09. Koncept Jack$on - 7 Cups of Blood 10. Rich Jones & Iceberg Theory - Have You Tried Turning It Off & Back On Again 11. Aj Suede - Monochrome 12. Ox Omni & Emilio Craig - ROTTEN APPLES 13. Defcee, Boathouse, Meyhem Lauren & Metasota - Dunk Contest [Remix] 14. Kipp Stone & Nuke Franklin - 1833 15. Camden Malik & DVNTBEATS - Direct 16. QThree - Big Dipper 17. Chris Crack - Jordan Never Did That Move 18. Argov, YL & Starker - Old School 19. Cise Greeny - ”ONWARDS” 20. Cousin Feo - Louie XVI 21. CLBRKS, Sleazy F Baby & Soweto Kinch - Tell Em! 22. Lo.Ceasar - VINTRILOQUIST 23. Medhane & JUNIE. - BET! 24. Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Sadhugold & Kaos the Baker - Tour Is Over 25. Sha Hef, Tony Seltzer & ABG Neal - Outside & Aktive 26. HooksArthur, Smokeintheye & Cise Greeny - Articulated Visions 27. Starker - Gangrel 28. Emilio Craig - EDDIE ROW 29. ZekeUltra - CAPTAIN HOOK 30. Pink Siifu, Real Bad Man, Peso Gordon & Chuck Strangers - Pour The Wine

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Dustedandsocial Bestof 2022 part8 (rap 7)

Pictured: Moor Mother

01. Obiekwe Agbu - ready to stay 02. LustSickPuppy - EGO BRUISER 03. GAWD - JOHN WALL 04. Sir EU - STAND NAME NationWidu (全国) 05. ELDER RA & Rahiem Supreme - Unorthodox Exquisiteness Taste 06. Lxdxp - The Dead 07. Akai Solo - Sun 2 Moon 08. Fil Jackson & Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon - Sunday Church For The Kids 09. proxy.exe - BREAK U OFF 10. Semiratruth, JWords, maassai & diani - ahead 11. Obijuan, YUNGMORPHEUS & Bisk - LIMBO 12. Kofi - treesap 13. DøøF - WeInHell 14. DrxQuinnx - Romper Room 14. mary sue & Tony Bontana - Moving On! 15. Jadasea - face of it 17. THE BLACKHEARTS - MONEY TALKS 18. Nappy Nina, Mavi & dane.zone - Tucked In 19. JUNIE. & AMIR BILAL - BEATRICE&RIO 20. Dylan Gray & 99PIRATE - Beetlejuice 21. yungmorpheus & THERAVADA - Vanishing Point 22. Elijah Bank$y - SMALL TALK 23. Blackchai - Chamber 24. Judah - Piece 25. SOUDIERE & WIFIGAWD - SIRIUS BLACK 26. Gam & Fatboi Sharif - Dusted Pushups 27. Moor Mother, Akai Solo & justmadnice - RAP JASM 28. NAPPYNAPPA - Source 29. Tony Bontana - Slide 30. Jaydonclover & ZekeUltra - browneyes

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part1 (bestof Certified Trapper): HERE

[therappundit]

THIS WAS 2022: The Rap Pundit’s Top 150 Songs of the Year

Amidst the weekly barrage of new releases, gems will always slip through the cracks.  So I don’t care who it is picking “the best” rap songs of the year....I know that you, like me, are suddenly reminded of a dozen more songs that you like just as much as any of the songs on your list, mere moments after sharing it with the world.  What I tried to do this year was pick a balance of personal favorites, and songs that I felt did a good job of representing the many different sounds and styles that ran deeply through the soil of 2022.  

So here are my “Top 150 Rap Songs of 2022″...I hope that you become a fan of at least one new artist that was not previously on your radar.

***Bonus Cuts (because why not)***: 

“We Here” - Black Soprano Family [Benny The Butcher, ElCamino, Rick Hyde & Heem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqT1v0nQFUs

“Chaa Chaa Chaa” - Girll Codee feat. HoodCelebrityy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTDMVx8anc

“Alien Isolation [Wave Creator]” - Ola Runt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAF3tUMyWW4

“Jungle Life” - DCG Shun x DCG Bsavv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or4swaUssKw

“You Don’t Know” - Sadistik & Kno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dFqql9Tnyc

"Stupid Flow” - Gmac Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjYIYZXbQdc

"Southeast Daisy” - Los & Nutty feat. Fat Yee, Paco Panama & D Muney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1UE_V8lw4Y

"Detroit Hu$$le” - BandGang Lonnie Bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mygPU2g6fDM

“The Blues” - Willyynova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MztAq1PBE_4

“Still Alive” - AB Dankoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09HnJh35q0

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150. "funeral" -Snotty

https://therealsnotty.bandcamp.com/track/funeral-prod-by-zeus-elevated

149. “Rule The World” - Azealia Banks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAz_Cx8fjs

148. “Central Dr Freestyle” - Yung Sinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQwG4isEfo

147. "Cotton” - FOUR50 feat. Shawny Binladen & Big YAYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXOL8QZYqU

146. “Cold Burn” - Shrapknel [Curly Castro & PremRock]

https://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/track/cold-burn

145. “Mel Made Me Do It” - Stormzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2litzsFCwkA

144. “Duntsane” - Young Nudy feat. BabyDrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OodDzDGhY

143. “Bardo” - PremRock feat. billy woods [prod. by Evidence]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSkhKczm-I

142. “Silhouette” - Wakai feat. Marco Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWi3xkaGIeU

141. “Hot Shit” - Cardi B feat. Lil Durk & Kanye West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14MVsSeVho

140. “Essentials” - Detroit Rap News feat. Jugg Harden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFbgvl614CY

139 "Meet the Walkers 2” - Little Double 0 feat. Nardo Wick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQX6kXH0Kao

138. “Sometimes / Faith” - Jae Skeese feat. Stove God Cooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av1946C3atM

137. “Mephisto” - Namir Blade

https://namirblade.bandcamp.com/track/mephisto

136. “Fettywap” - Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious

https://tellerbanks.bandcamp.com/track/fettywap-prod-by-ed-glorious

135. “Deja Vu” - Roc Marciano & The Alchemist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVAWEF7jMg

134. "FLINT FLOW” - YN Jay, RMC Mike & Louie Ray 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xAgKf1vI1E

133. “Respect The Architect” - AJ Suede & Televangel feat. Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire

https://chongwizard.bandcamp.com/track/respect-the-architect-ft-mr-muthafuckin-exquire

132. “Grinding All Season” - Kodak Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjYdmuwNfDQ

131. “Everybody Owe Me” - Archibald Slim

https://powrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/everybody-owe-me

130. “JUGG” - SwaVay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9RwkG1QMQ

129. “Still Shit Talking” - Rio Da Yung OG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkNb8NVqew

128. "Posse” - R3 Da Chilliman feat. S5 a.k.a. stoneda5th & HBK Jachi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJ9lI1ynjo

127. “Spirit Body House Party Cipher” - Sleep Sinatra & Ohbliv feat. Archibald SLIM & Aakeem Eshú

https://sleepsinatra1.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-body-house-party-cipher-feat-archibald-slim-x-aakeem-eshu

126. “Lil Big” - Nate Husser feat. LUCKI

https://soundcloud.com/everyonesaweirdo/lil-big-ft-lcki

125. "CHANCES” - Grafh [prod. by Royce Da 5′9″]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WaH1gdJq8A

124. "Citgo” - Milc & Andy Savoie feat. Remember Face & C'est La

https://soundcloud.com/freshselects/milc-andy-savoie-citgo

123. "Rain Delays” - Zilla Rocca & andrew feat. Curly Castro & Rich Jones

https://threedollarpistol.com/track/rain-delays-feat-curly-castro-rich-jones

122. “Stop it!” - by YGTUT & TheHouse (feat. Jace & Wavy Wallace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBMrtvzln0

121. “Do We Have A Problem?” - Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbCTEa-hTJ0

120. “The Gov’t Gave Us Guns” - ICECOLDBISHOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFG9vh57m5k

119. “Get Jumped” - Asian Doll feat. Bandmanrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecsOgLx2IYs

118. “Black Belt Jones” - Lukah

https://lukah.bandcamp.com/track/black-belt-jones

117. “Crash Victiim” - DB.Boutabag feat. RaniiBoutabag 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6stNKEsCE

116`. "Parkway Freestyle” - HWY 308 & Finn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1iQpEylJ0

115. “Been Pushing P” - Philthy Rich feat. Sauce Walka, Peso Peso & Skinny T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vliLC4b2_eQ

114. “Who Not Turnt?” - Baby Money feat. 42 Dugg & Tay B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QULdCGtKMFQ

113. “Triple Threat” - WopDell feat. Toohda Band$ & Stunnaman02 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFFGjGki44

112. “Never Miss” - Certified Trapper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX0D9QEa33g

111. “Dante’s Inferno” - Bloodmoney Perez feat. AJ Suede, Sleep Sinatra & Blu

https://bloodmoneyperez.bandcamp.com/track/dantes-inferno-feat-aj-suede-sleep-sinatra-blu-2

110. “Add A K, pt. 2″ - Whoppa Wit Da Choppa, Jdot Breezy, & Spinabenz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6ec-6Sckk&list=RD0E6ec-6Sckk&start_radio=1

109. “Str8 Up” - Skylar Blatt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33HTZCg-R0

108. “Do Better” - Ab-Soul feat. Zacari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTxdSdYR5E

107. “Put The Minks Down” - Jeezy & DJ Drama feat. 42 Dugg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTMUoVZylM

106. “Out Da Rut” - ManDaMyth feat. IL Subliminal

https://damn-that-noise.bandcamp.com/track/out-da-rut-feat-il-subliminal-prod-by-mjc

105. “Freaky T” - TiaCorine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05p68g4L8-E

104. "Remorseless” - billy woods & Preservation

https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/remorseless

103. “Munch (Feelin’ U)” - Ice Spice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-NC3eRsqc

102. “Biggie” - MarijuanaXO feat. Joe Pablo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpLr1lGz0o

101. “Reason!” - Mavi

https://soundcloud.com/mavi704/reason?in=mavi704/sets/laughing-so-hard-it-hurts-1

100. “God Fist” - Marlowe [L’Orange & Solemn Brigham] feat. Deniro Farrar

https://lorange360.bandcamp.com/track/godfist-feat-deniro-farrar

99. “The Root of All” - DJ Premier feat. Slick Rick & Lil Wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elXENfyH1L4

98. “I Don’t Wanna Rap” - Jay Worthy & DJ Muggs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHvBPxzuoU

97. “Ghost Music” - Icewear Vezzo & DJ Drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acipKIEnoZ0&list=PLVZtocpycmEWFxLeOtrGuH4J_bM_6_Ndy&index=12

96. "Roof” - Raised Round Bosses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJZQSeNfZI

95. "outlaw” - Rahiem Supreme feat. nappy nappa

https://rahiemsupreme.bandcamp.com/track/outlaw-ft-nappy-nappa

94. “Bangin Hard” - KP Skywalka, Paco Panama & Smoke Chapo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csDbGw9vQhI

93. “Pandemic Flow” - Black Soprano Family feat. Conway the Machine & Cory Gunz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TjxVRn4NA

92. “Sambo’s Last Words” - King Cobra by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals

https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/track/sambos-last-words

91. "CIA” - Freddie Gibbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yonORB4s_s

90. “DISCO FEVER” - Boldy James & Futurewave

https://fxckrxp.bandcamp.com/track/disco-fever

89. “Karate Mob Ferrari” - 3 The God Way [Kaimbr, Sean Born & Let The Dirt Say Amen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY__-8rzBtk

88. “Voodoo” - BOA QG & BOA Hunxho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9gx7IPtbQ

87. “7xvethegenius Top Shelf Freestyle” - 7xvethegenius & SadhuGold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dhzXdt65s

86. “Pork & Beans for Beauty Queens” - Errol Holden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULhnHQp2vnc

85. “Don’t Kome To My Funeral″ - YOUNG SLO-BE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jukz1NAo1c&list=PLDgJVdgfSuIk3V6f1v3rgnBs-EEgOcoQN&index=2

84. “33″ by Mimz & MJC

https://filthybroke.bandcamp.com/track/333

83. “Come My Way” - Saba feat. Krayzie Bone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpnJfVx27jo

82. “Chaka Khan” - TiaCorine feat. Kenny Beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkCXZR5sEY

81. “Ghost” - Fly Anakin feat. Nickelus F

https://flyanakin.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-feat-nickelus-f-prod-like-2

80. “Hunnit Dolla Hiccup” - Armani caesar feat. Benny The Butcher & Stove God Cooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzlPjuIAdt4

79. “skippin rocks” - amani & robalu

https://amani.bandcamp.com/track/skippin-rocks

78. “Joe Biden” - Big Moochie Grape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3N4p8ElIHc

77. “ROOTED” - The Blackhearts [Elijah Bank$y & ZekeUltra] feat. Free

https://zekeultra.bandcamp.com/track/rooted-feat-free

76. “99 Problems” - CHASETHEMONEY feat. Babyface Ray & Valee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzkR2a5kRw

75. “Kid$ Gotta Eat” - A$AP Twelvyy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvtXpmPEu0

74. “Steady” - Owlkast & KNOWITALL

https://owlkast.bandcamp.com/track/steady

73. "Riot” - Nardo Wick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4xLjvgqCA

72. “FRILL” - kingdoughmane. feat. Danie Be

https://kingdoughmane.bandcamp.com/track/frill-feat-danie-be

71. “Daddy Kane” - Roc Marciano & The Alchemist feat. Action Bronson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G8Z7WDfzA4

70. “Chief Keef” - BhramaBull feat. Diego Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-myhQuyxAi8

69. “POULTRY HEIST” - phiik & duro feat. Lungs

https://phiik.bandcamp.com/track/poultry-heist-feat-lungs

68. "LIGHTWERK” - The Cool Kids feat. 6LACK & JID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2qJktTv4E

67. “Rich Flex” - Drake & 21 Savage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4DjHHVHWAE

66. “Integration” - Quavo & Takeoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTW9kWhBsmU

65. “Big Boy Deli” - Real Bad Man feat. Rome Streetz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHHZwH46EpA

64. “STARSKI” - Obijuan & YUNGMORPHEUS feat. Rahiem Supreme

https://obijuan-obeahman.bandcamp.com/track/starski-feat-rahiem-supreme

63. “No Merci” - Little Simz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6v3VWn7G0

62. “Rabies” - Abe Linx & Tully C. feat. Bub Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjN9C2LxcoY

61. “FlyGod Jr.” - Westside Gunn feat. Doe Boy & DJ Drama

https://soundcloud.com/westsidegunn/flygod-jr

60. “MONEY BANDANA” - Duke Deuce feat. Babyface Ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytSvEqHfKVg

59. “FOOTBALL HEADS” - Maxo Kream feat. Benny The Butcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEBSBLPCnKY

58. “GATEKEEPERZ” - Mikem Nahmir & The Fades Formation

https://nahmir.bandcamp.com/track/gatekeeperz

57. “Wavy Gang Immortal” - Babyface Ray feat. Samuel Shabazz & King Hendrick$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeS9LoqoIgM

56. “C.A.B. / McCormick” - Dough Networkz & Python P feat. Hydeparkfb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg2XdK8lzqc

55. “Amen” - Nappy Nina & JWords

https://nappynina.bandcamp.com/track/amen

54. "Diesel” - The Alchemist feat. Kool G Rap

https://soundcloud.com/alan-the-chemist/diesel-feat-kool-g-rap

53. “Southern California” - Chicken P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjYtgEfS4A

52. “48″ - Maxo feat. Pink Siifu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3zug7xJSI

51. “Troubles” - Denzel Curry feat. T-Pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSV8ruFv1NQ

50. “DEMONSLAYER” - AKAI SOLO

https://akaisolo.bandcamp.com/track/demonslayer-prod-by-iblss

49. “White Rabbit Freestyle” - Marco Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBD0hEY2-E

48. "Skeletons” - Domo Genesis & Evidence feat. Navy Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnyCkdRZAU

47. "Heads On The Wall” - DJ Muggs & Rigz feat. Rome Streetz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsI-qlS9nk

46. “Step 1” - SleazyWorld Go feat. Offset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EJ-_MBAAB0

45. "Recession Proof” - Nas & Hit-Boy

https://soundcloud.com/nasirjones/nas-recession-proof-1?in=nasirjones/sets/kings-disease-iii-1

44. “An Incomplete List” - Teddy Faley

https://wearethekarmakids.bandcamp.com/track/an-incomplete-list-single

43. “600 Paid” - Rich Jones & Iceberg Theory feat. Convertible Ashley

https://chongwizard.bandcamp.com/track/600-paid-ft-convertible-ashley

42. “Crazy World” - Babyface Ray

https://soundcloud.com/miababyfaceray/babyface-ray-crazy-world?in=miababyfaceray/sets/mob-952647321

41. “Until We On” - Wiki & Subjxct 5 feat. Reed & Hunnaloe

https://wiksetnyc.bandcamp.com/track/until-we-on-feat-reed-hunnaloe

40. “Six Toes” - Nicholas Craven & Boldy James

https://soundcloud.com/nicholascraven/six-toes?in=nicholascraven/sets/nicholas-craven-boldy-james-fair-exchange-no-robbery

39. “Streets Don’t Luv Nobody” - Mike Shabb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR24vY_LioE

38. “Outside of Dunkin” - Papo2oo4, DJ Lucas & Subjxct 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebo7aM4be48

37. “Makeda” - MIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0TQieoHxv0

36. “Classical Music” - billy woods & Messiah Musik feat. AKAI SOLO & Fielded

https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/classical-music-ft-akai-solo-fielded

35. “For DOOM” - Open Mike Eagle

https://openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/track/for-doom

34. "Midnite Gospel” - Bag Appeal feat. IL Subliminal & MJC

https://filthybroke.bandcamp.com/track/midnite-gospel-il-subliminal-mjc

33. “Palm Trees” - Kipp Stone feat. J.U.S.

https://closedsessions.bandcamp.com/track/palm-trees-featuring-j-u-s

32. “Ugly Balenciagas” - Rome Streetz

https://soundcloud.com/romestreetz/ugly-balenciagas

31. “Anybody Killa” - G Perico feat. Tapri Grams & Slumlord Trill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9v0s7Sl_y0

30. “Thowy’s Revenge” - Benny The Butcher

https://soundcloud.com/bennythebutcher1/benny-the-butcher-track-7?in=bennythebutcher1/sets/tana-talk-4

29. “Triple Double” - Willie The Kid & V Don

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGDsE43000

28. “Unindulged” - Ka & Chuck Strangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqgp8zyroac

27. “The Sky Is Blue Because The Sunset Is Red” - Quelle Chris feat. MoRuf & Pink Siifu

https://quellechris360.bandcamp.com/track/the-sky-is-blue-because-the-sunset-is-red-feat-moruf-pink-siifu-prod-chris-keys-knxwledge

26. “Keep Goin” - Baby Stone Gorillas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHhK1qloGU

25. "Neighborhood” Ras Beats & J Scienide

https://rasbeats.bandcamp.com/track/ras-beats-j-scienide-neighborhood

24. “Shabooya” - Hitkidd feat. Aleza, Gloss Up, Slimeroni,& K Carbon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV-pJ8BBxj8

23. “Dear John” - Stik Figa & Conductor Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDd6-M2QStw

22.  “Whale Watching” - Curren$y & Alchemist feat. Styles P

https://soundcloud.com/currensy/whale-watching-feat-styles-p?in=currensy/sets/continuance-3

21. “Brambleton” - PUSHA T feat. Pharrell Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6apli5j43Q

20.. “Johnny P’s Caddy” - Benny The Butcher feat. J. Cole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdhUHpX2Cw

19. “Reap” - Ka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VH27m6UbhE

18. “Stressed” - Conway the Machine feat. Wallo267

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbQUzkhFAk

17. “Strangers” - Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat. A$AP Rocky & Run The Jewels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdHD1neCV8

16. “God Laughs” - Earl Sweatshirt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Z8JUd_ySo

15. “Old Magic” - ELUCID

https://elucid.bandcamp.com/track/old-magic

14. “Silent Hill” - Kendrick Lamar feat. Kodak Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00QQWJIFxDA

13. “Uncle Mark” - Lord Kayso

https://lordkayso.bandcamp.com/track/uncle-mark-prod-chris-decastro

12. “One More” - Wiki & MIKE & The Alchemist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EoZsQeEn8

11. “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” - Hitkidd & GloRilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww6ykF2ktaI

10. “Conductor Freestyle” - Kipp Stone

https://closedsessions.bandcamp.com/track/conductor-freestyle

9. “The Weight of Water Part 2″ - Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire

https://exqomaniarules.bandcamp.com/track/the-weight-of-water-part-2-prod-madlib

8. “Reggie Noble” - Mike Shabb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pBel1cAVE

7. “Belize” - Danger Mouse & Black Thought & Danger Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFZh62tw3o

6. “Rossi” - Defcee & Boathouse feat. Armand Hammer

https://defcee.bandcamp.com/track/rossi-featuring-armand-hammer

5. “Shootouts In Soho” - Westside Gunn

https://soundcloud.com/westsidegunn/shootouts-in-soho

4. “Versailles” - billy woods & Preservation feat. Despot

https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/versailles-ft-despot

3. “Crown” - Kendrick Lamar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL1L287YbkQ

2. “So Tired You Can't Stop Dreaming” - Quelle Chris feat. Navy Blue

https://quellechris360.bandcamp.com/track/so-tired-you-cant-stop-dreaming-feat-navy-blue

1. “Tomorrow 2” - GloRilla feat. Cardi B

[If you would have told me this time last year that my choice for the best rap song of 2022 would come from Cardi B and a rapper from Memphis that I had previously never heard of, I would have told you that you’re probably confusing my tastes with someone else’s....but, here we are!  "Tomorrow 2″ is simplicity at it’s finest, there’s so much going right with this joint: a charismatic, exciting new rap voice in GloRilla, arguably the hardest verse of Cardi B’s career, some catchy bouncy keys courtesy of Macaroni Toni, and an overall collaborative energy that just screams Memphis pride.  The rest of the rap world has absorbed so much uncredited influence from Memphis, and with GloRilla running away with the breakout rap star of the year aware, doesn’t it feel right to salute this immensely talented music town in 2022?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwa7NzNBQig

[dominiquethomas]

2022

nobody cares how The Fader feels, people pirating music again, nature heals

Les albums :

No Pressure - No Pressure LP DaBoii - Can’t Tame Us BabyTron - Megatron 42 Dugg & EST Gee - Last Ones Left ROSALIA - MOTOMAMI Babyface Ray - FACE Mindforce - New Lords leroy - Dariacore 3 That Kid - Superstar Maud Geffray - Ad Astra

Les chansons :

1. Lil Yachty - Poland 2. Yung Lean - Bliss (feat. FKA twigs) 3. DaBoii - Cole Bennet (feat. Young SLO-BE) 4. So La Lune - Fin Heureuse 5. Charli XCX - Used To Know Me 6. 42 Dugg & EST Gee - Everybody Shooters Too 7. No Pressure - Hand in Hand 8. That Kid - SEX2NITE 9. ROSALIA - SAOKO 10. Knucks & SL - Nice & Good 11. Rio Da Yung OG - Cold Hearted (feat. Louie Ray) 12. Young SLO-BE - Don’t Kome 2 My Funeral 13. Nadir Khalil - Wild Trance 14. Kiddshawnx - Storm (feat. Dripalogic) 15. umru - heart2 (feat. Petal Supply & Rebecca Black) 16. Icewear Vezzo - It’s All On U (feat. Kodak Black) 17. Armani DePaul - IDC (feat. Young SLO-BE) 18. Bandmanrill & Sha EK - Jiggy in Jersey 2 19. JuL - Superstar 20. Kodak Black - Walk 21. Young Smokes - Heart Warming Drill 22. Babyface Ray - 6 Mile Show (feat. Icewear Vezzo) 23. Bandmanrill - BANDTHOVEN 24. Doe Boy - ONNA HOOD (feat. Babyface Ray) 25. BabyTron - Letter To Cornelius 26. Veeze - Close Friends 27. Baauer - Let Me Love U 28. Ralfy The Plug - Caillou Cousin 29. Yeat - Poppin 30. Jensen Interceptor & DJ Fuckoff - Ride 31. Mindforce - All Facts 32. leroy - her head is soooo rolling!! love her 33. Vince Staples - MAGIC 34. Panteros666 - Spooky Bitch (feat. Reeza) 35. Maud Geffray - I Fall At 5 36. Los - RIP Blade (feat. Veeze & WB Nutty) 37. Denzel Curry - X-Wing 38. Tr3yway6k - 50’s to the 100’s (feat. Fat Meech) 39. Veerus - Cash (feat. Freeze Corleone) 40. Lazuli - Casse ton dos (King Doudou Rave Mix) 41. DJ Q & Finn - Speedy Gs 42. PGF Nuk - Waddup (feat. Polo G) 43. Z Money - Lyin Oath 44. Real Boston Richey - Bullseye 2 (feat. Future) 45. Ramirez - Return of the Corpse 46. Yung Kayo - YEET (feat. Yeat) 47. RMC Mike - 6 God 48. Cash Cobain - SLIZZY LIKE 49. Kerchak - Tarzan 50. WYNNE - Nature Heals 51. TrDee - Johnny Test 52. Glorilla - F.N.F. (Let’s Go) 53. EBK Young Joc - Get It Right 54. Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Real Apes (feat. Ice Burgandy) 55. ShittyBoyz - Taliban Ties 56. WB Nutty - Deal With It 57. Lil Baby - U Digg (feat. Veeze & 42 Dugg) 58. Safety Trance - El Alma Que Te Trajo 59. DCB Brothers - Jungle Life 60. 1PLIKE140 - NO LACKIN 61. Krispylife Kidd - GhettoBoy Flow 62. Lil Uzi Vert - Just Wanna Rock 63. Mata - JESTEM POJ384NY 64. OhGeezy - Gallery 65. Lala&ce - FALLAIT DIRE NON 66. Escha & Ytem - Triple M 67. YungManny - MURDAMAN! (feat. Chief Keef) 68. Drego & Beno - Sorry We Was Trapping 69. EBK BCKDOE - Angry Africans (feat. SSRICHH33 & Verde Babii) 70. LUCKI - Y NOT? 71. Rico Nasty - Black Punk 72. Homixide Gang - Lifestyle 73. SosMula - ROBOCOP 74. midwxst - 223’s (feat. BabyTron) 75. 42 Dugg - IDGAF 76. Mini RTTCLAN - 669 Tah (feat. Freeze Corleone) 77. Duke Deuce - Just Say That (feat. Glorilla) 78. Sophie Cates - Cardigan 79. Eyedress - 2 HEADED GOAT 80. K-Trap - Warm Remix (feat. Skepta) 81. Mosca - Foot Clan 82. Tiesto & Charli XCX - Hot In It 83. VR SEX - Crisis Stage 84. Gonemage - The Suffering and Endurance 85. SCH - Transmission Automatique (feat. So La Lune) 86. Kenzo B - The Facts (feat. Young Devyn) 87. Dumar 1k - Crashout (feat. OTM Frenchyy) 88. Flo Milli - Hottie (feat. Babyface Ray) 89. Karma2zz - Trap Aint Dead 90. Omeretta the Great - Sorry Not Sorry (feat. Latto) 91. Flight - The Scale (feat. BabyTron) 92. Future - LIKE ME (feat. 42 Dugg & Lil Baby) 93. Asian Doll - Get Jumped (feat. Bandmanrill) 94. YS - 30 Wit Da 30 95. OmgAddy - Poland Remix 96. Himera - Kiss (feat. Hannah Diamond) 97. Kai Bandz - No Cappin (feat. DaBoii) 98. 2rare - Oochie Coochie 99. SteveDaStoner - Barkin’ 100. Kenshi Yonezu - KICK BACK

Youtube playlist

DL : 1 (alt) / 2 (alt)

[thelensofyashunews]

Big Moochie Grape Shares “Wake ‘Em Up” To All Streaming Platforms

A “gigantic” force in the Memphis rap community, Big Moochie Grape is impossible to ignore. Never one to stand still, Moochie continues to put in work after ending a short prison stay, sharing the official release of his new single and music video “Wake ‘Em Up.” He debuted the track last week via 4 ShootersOnly's renowned platform From The Block, performing the new song in front of a hanging microphone the same night he left the corrections facility where he spent his sentence. The viral video has over 400k views in the past week. Produced by his favorite sound architect, PRE's own Bandplay, Moochie injects a jolt of energy into “Wake ‘Em Up,” vowing to rouse anyone who might have slept on him.

The official video for “Wake ‘Em Up” documents Moochie’s first day out from the moment he walks out the prison gates with a huge smile on his face. He shares a joyous reunion with his crew before heading to Atlanta where he embraces post-prison life, showing off his icy jewelry, getting a haircut, and counting stacks of cash.

The "Wake 'Em Up" video continues a saga that started with Moochie's new project, East Haiti Baby: Incarcerated, the follow-up to 2022’s East Haiti Baby. The high-octane mixtape welcomes guest verses exclusively from other incarcerated rappers, including YFN Lucci, who who turns in a sing-song counterpoint to Moochie's machine gun patter on "I Made It," Rio Da Yung OG on "Bars," a Memphis-meets-Michigan-style banger, and his PRE cohort Big Unccc, who tears it up on "L.A. Lakers." Notably, the project welcomes an interlude from C-Murder, a close friend of Moochie's late mentor Young Dolph, the No Limit soldier who has been locked up for decades and has much wisdom to share. Honoring the project's theme, Big Moochie Grape and Paper Route Empire partnered with the Bail Project, a non-profit that advocates for bail reform and provides free bail assistance to those in need, to match donations up to $20k in December 2023.Featuring an additional guest appearance from Bankroll Freddie, East Haiti Baby: Incarcerated is available all on platforms via Paper Route Empire.

Now that he's free, Big Moochie Grape is hellbent on stepping on necks throughout 2024 and beyond. Stay tuned for much more music from the East Memphis rapper as the year moves along.

[dustedmagazine]

Dust Volume 9, Number 4

Photo of Angel Olsen by Luke Rogers

Dust is everywhere these days, but that’s a good thing.  April may be the cruelest month, but it’s also when the release calendar swings into full gear and local concert announcements proliferate.  We’ve made it through the long dark void.  It’s time for beers outside and portable speakers.  What are we blasting?  Oh, lots of things.  Australian punks and Michigan rappers, German death metalists and French composers, piano deconstructers and freaking Arto Lindsay.  This month’s contributors include Jennifer Kelly, Ray Garraty, Jonathan Shaw, Bill Meyer, Tim Clarke, Ian Mathers, Patrick Masterson and Jim Marks.

Blowers — Blown Again (Chaputa!/Spooky)

Blown Again LP by BLOWERS

“Wipe My Ass” materialized in my inbox on a slow day. It came all the way from Australia with blunt force scatological humor, and yeah, I clicked on the link. Why not? It’s dead brute simple, this song, starting with a girl (also the drummer) yelling out the title phrase, and picking up first a buzzsaw guitar lick and later, the somewhat wistful, surprisingly hooky chorus of “I just want somebody…to wipe my ass.”  These songs are all raging ID and very little super-ego. “Shut the Fuck Up” is catchy as hell, in the vein of Jay Reatard’s late-career, alternative-universe hits, and “Let’s Age Disgracefully” aims a firehose of guitar nose straight at the speakers, so that you have to step back a little bit. Leonard Cohen, it’s not, but if you like giddy, joke-y, irrepressible garage punk from people who can barely play their instruments, well, prepare to get blown.

Jennifer Kelly

Cellow — Ghetto Takeover (Jugg$treet)

There is literally no information on who this guy Cellow is, and this EP won’t change the situation. In a dozen of years we will be just saying “Oh, remember that dude that did a little tape with Rio Da Yung Og?” It looks like Cellow took a deal Rio was offering before he got locked up — to record an EP with an artist for $50k — but Ghetto Takeover didn’t surface until now. After 20 listens, hardly a line written by Cellow stays in your memory, possibly due to his total lack of charisma. Rio Da Yung Og completely steals the show here, on all the tracks he’s featured, and he’s in a full ignorance mode: “Fuck Obama and I ain't vote for Trump neither \ Stupid-ass white boys, Butthead and Beavis.” It’s the Flint MC who’s taking over Ghetto Takeover, not Cellow.

Ray Garraty

Ch’Ahom — Camazotz Cult (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Camazotz Cult by CH'AHOM

Ahead of a new LP from German black/death band Ch’Ahom, the sharp-eared freaks at Sentient Ruin Laboratories are releasing this compilation LP, and they’ve done us a solid. Camazotz Cult is as confounding and queasy as it is unpleasantly intense, precisely the sort of thing some of us look for in underground metal. What might possess a bunch of young German dudes to disappear into the mythos of a Pre-Columbian bat god, to the extent that they are compelled to form a band to write and record songs about it? This reviewer can’t shed any light on that—and likely the reasons should remain shrouded in dank, noisome darkness. If the denizens of TikTok and Telegram are alerted to the existence of the band, the ethno-purity police will show up to lodge their complaints: some will wring hands over cultural appropriation, others in black metal circles will bum out over the idea of Northern European kids digging on gods from the Global South. So goes our contemporary conjuncture. Meanwhile, songs like “Raid of the Tzitzimime” and “Noh Ek” churn and burn. To add to the cultural confusion, Ch’Ahom have covered a few tunes by Danish wackos Sadogoat, who went on to release more music under the even more inspired name Sadomator; Ch’Ahom’s rendition of “Female Goat Perversion” is as awful as you might expect, and it’s also pretty great. For sure, it’s the right soundtrack for 2023’s latest iteration of our global shitshow. Release the bat god, please.

Jonathan Shaw

Dippers — Looking for a Sphere (Goner/Tenth Court)

Looking for a Sphere by Dippers

The Melbourne garage punk rippers known as Thigh Master made two taut and scrappy full-lengths before ending their run. Now, a couple of years later, the two principals Matthew Ford and Innez Tulloch are back under a new name, Dippers, and a greatly altered sound. Looking for a Sphere, along with the single “Tightening the Tangles” make a case for fractious jangle but also psychedelic dreaming. Dippers do both. The single, out about a month ago, hews closer to the Thigh Master template with scratchy tunefulness, jabbing guitars and a noodle-y meander of keyboards. On the Sphere EP, however, even the relative bangers are slower, sweeter and edging into a gritty variety of twee. “Mazing,” the lead-off cut, is arch and witty like the Monochrome Set, jaggedly surreal like certain Pollard songs. It cuts and slashes and tootles in a sleepy-eyed way, in line with what Terry has been up to over the last several albums. “Drift Space” is even more stretched and blissed out, with its widely space guitar chords, its long shudders of tambourine and its languid psychedelic choruses (“Inwardly imploding, the pressure inside will not worry me, turned off the air, I floated out there, then turned off the screen.”) The two instrumental tracks are the surprise however, built of long expanding synthesizer tones and harpsichord like natterings; they extend in every limpid direction from a still center. But if Mikey Young can dabble in ambient electronics—and he can—then why not Dippers? Garage punk is so much more interesting when it brings in ideas from outside.

Jennifer Kelly

Bruno Duplant — Insondables Humeurs (Granny)

Insondables Humeurs by Bruno Duplant

Bruno Duplant made nine albums in 2022, so pardon me for not getting around to writing about this one until now. Mind you, my tardiness does not mean that you should not listen. This album is part of a recent series of longform pieces on which the French composer and occasional instrumentalist has taken on the full-time task of performance. Insondables Humeurs earns its title, which translates as Unfathomable Moods. Its two tracks loom and stretch, with long harmonium drones taking plenty of time to lure the listener into a state that feels at once enveloping and uneasy. Electronic treatments, piano notes, and arhythmic percussion intrude periodically, amping up the apprehension. This is the final installment of a trilogy of sonically disparate but similarly disposed efforts; one gets the feeling that Duplant is deeply concerned about the ongoing state of things. The resulting sounds cannot be denied.

Bill Meyer

Exploding Corpse Action — Interdimensional Annihilation: Complete Transmissions 1995-1997 (Armageddon)

Inter-Dimensional Annihilation: Complete Transmissions 1995-1997 by Exploding Corpse Action

The redistribution of heavy music’s extensive back-catalog of hyper-obscure, underground releases continues apace, and sometimes one wonders about the intent. Filling in untold histories, or filling hipster collectors’ record bins? Creating archival records, or “deluxe edition” records as pricey commodities? Interdimensional Annihilation: Complete Transmissions 1995-1997 is a newly marketed collection of the relatively slim output of Albany-based death metal band Exploding Corpse Action, and the record provides a good occasion for thinking on those questions. We’ll stipulate to the excellence of the band’s name, and there’s some fun to be had; tunes like “Light Speed Impact Crater” and “Robotic Surgery Malfunction” are endearingly demented. But do we really need two marginally different takes of “Decompression: Anal Prolapse” in the interest of a “complete” set of recordings? Do we really need this record in the first place, when a quick inspection of the latest sounds on Bandcamp yields any number of death-metal-related experiences imbued with the same sort of goofball depravity? History seems to have been indifferent to the band’s existence, and none of the participants in Exploding Corpse Action went on to make more subculturally significant music. Maybe if you live in Albany, you feel differently about the band’s relative importance, and in that case, I’m sorry — not about the band, but about Albany.

Jonathan Shaw

Grandbrothers — Late Reflections (City Slang)

Late Reflections by Grandbrothers

The concept behind the fourth album by Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel — the follow-up to 2021’s All the Unknown — is an interesting one: these ten pieces all feature grand piano as their sole sound source, recorded at night in Cologne Cathedral when the building was closed to the public. As expected, there are plenty of moments of quiet, gently reverberating reflection, building into exultant crescendos. However, what’s most surprising — and perhaps most disappointing — is that the piano is often so heavily processed as to render it indistinguishable. When crunchy beats kick in on a track like “Infinite,” one can’t help but wonder why a live kit couldn’t have been substituted instead; it certainly would have sounded more natural and more in-keeping with the album’s sound palette. Nevertheless, it’s often engrossing to follow how the duo’s multi-part compositions unfold.

Tim Clarke

Arto Lindsay — Charivari (Corbett Vs. Dempsey)

Charivari (Black Cross Solo Sessions 7) by Arto Lindsay

Three years is not so long ago. That’s how long ago that locked-down improv fans discovered, during the first Quarantine Concerts on-line festival, that Arto Lindsay had a few things to learn about adjusting the rotation of his cell phone’s video camera. The experience of watching him with a 90 degrees tilt may have obscured what a swell thing he had going, but this album will set you straight. If, like this writer, you have sometimes felt that larger settings dilute Lindsay’s singular integration of guitar noise, samba sway, and social anxiety-stirring provocation, this unaccompanied setting is the neat shot you’ve been waiting for. While occasional loops trick you into thinking that the earth’s rhythms can be trusted, marvelously jagged chunks of guitar noise topple while Lindsay croons and gasps fragments that let you know that you just don’t know. The numerologically inclined should be aware that this album is volume seven of Corbett Vs. Dempsey’s Black Cross Solo Sessions, a series of solo statements that the label commissioned from locked down artists. There are eight in all, each encased in a glossy reproduction of Christopher Wool’s titular cross. Collect ‘em, trade ‘em, but keep your bubble gum sticks away from ‘em. Inspirational lyric: “Resistance yoga.”

Bill Meyer 

Mute Duo — Migrant Flocks (American Dreams)

Migrant Flocks by Mute Duo

Chicago’s Mute Duo refer to their setup (Sam Wagster on pedal steel, Skyler Rowe on drums) as a “sandbox” and their play on Migrant Flocks bears that out. Whether on the flute-assisted (courtesy of Emma Hospelhorn), expansive centerpiece “The Ocean Door,” the harder-charging “Trust Lanes” and “Landmusik” (the latter featuring Doug McCombs and Andrew Scott Young), or the more ethereal ranges of “Moon in the Flood” and the closing “Bisrāma,” the duo refuses to be pigeonholed into what you might guess a pedal-steel-and-drums record might sound like. Some of this is technique (Wagster plays more conventionally guitar-like registers at times, Rowe mostly sticks with brushes), but it’s more the varied emotional and sonic palette they wield so astutely. At times the sound touches on anyone from later-period Earth to “Mogwai Fear Satan” to the Dirty Three, but always with a quality that marks Mute Duo as their own thing, and worth watching.

Ian Mathers

Paal Nilssen-Love Circus — Pairs of Three (PNL)

Pairs of Three by Paal Nilssen-Love Circus

The Norwegian drummer and bandleader Paal Nilssen-Love has lived a pretty international life. That has influenced his choice of associates — he’s played with musicians from the USA, Japan, Ethiopia, Brazil and all around Europe — and the distances he has traveled in order to play with them. This all changed when COVID came around, and he found himself confined within his home country’s borders, but improvisation is just another way of saying you’re good at solving problems. The members of Nilsen-Love’s Circus, who convened to record this album in the summer of 2021, all live in Scandinavia, but between them they can dial up any corner of the world in a second. The music changes by the second, jumping from accordion-led chanson to agit-prop punk to timbral improv, while singer Juliana Venter similarly leaps from tongue to tongue, with digressions into back of the throat, hackle-raising extended techniques. This music is a world unto itself, full of possibility.

Bill Meyer

Nondi_ — Flood City Trax (Planet Mu)

Flood City Trax by Nondi_

Best I can find, Tatiana Triplin has been releasing music since 2014, but Flood City Trax is her first away from the netlabel she runs, HRR, as well as her first for Planet Mu (not a bad place to greet a broader audience). The years of juke, footwork and techno intake make themselves felt across this album, which trips all over itself rhythms-wise but, more than anything to me, recalls the dreamily rough, lower-fidelity beats of Actress. Triplin says this album is inspired by the moods of her hometown of Johnstown, Penn., a place (in)famous for its flooding, and suggesting the music doesn’t carry with it some of that water weight, conscious or otherwise, would be misleading. More tangible than vaporwave but less fully submerged than Drexciya, Nondi_’s most prominent, cohesive album statement is also one of the year’s most excitingly pleasant surprises in the realm of electronic music.

Patrick Masterson 

Angel Olsen — Forever Means EP (Jagjaguwar)

Forever Means by Angel Olsen

For all of the ambition and willingness to push further stylistically that Angel Olsen has exhibited in the last half a decade, it’s clear she’s never lost sight of her greatest strengths: deftly sensitive songwriting and that otherworldly voice. Dipping her toes into the swollen decadence of All Mirrors or the ‘80s synthpop cosplay of Aisles remain diversions from her more traveled roads beaten with a guitar and a mic that can handle her pipes. The Olsen I fell in love with was Burn Your Fire for No Witness, and she seems to have come back around on that more restrained swagger lately with the All Mirrors reworkings Whole New Mess, last year’s excellent, settling Big Time and, now, leftovers from those sessions in the form of Forever Means. The sax and organ solos that run out of gas on “Nothing’s Free” and the afterthought of a trumpet on “Time Bandits” feel like failed flourishes, so you can see why she dropped them, but the title track is as good as she gets and none of these four tracks is obviously lacking for quality. No matter how much change she goes through — and heaven knows she’s had plenty of that recently — her gifts shine brightest when there’s less to hide them behind. The center continues to hold.

Patrick Masterson

ShaunMusiq, Ftears & Xduppy — “Bhebha (Feat. Myztro, Mellow & Sleazy, QuayR Musiq & Matuteboy)” (Kgaday)

The reigning sound of South Africa has been amapiano for several years now, and understandably so: Its relaxed rhythmic pace, airy melodies and “the pianos” from which the genre derives its name allow for plenty of creative space. One name taking recent advantage of the style is ShaunMusiq, who’s had a small but solid stream of singles since 2021’s SkrrThang II and here heads up a crew remixing a song that’s been blowing out cheap car subs and irritating parents around Pretoria since 2005. It won’t surprise you to learn this blew up via TikTok and that’s probably the impetus for this official video, which belatedly arrives a month out from the single’s release, but what might surprise you is how heavy that bass rolls as the three protagonists pass sleepy bars off to one another in the Bantu Tsonga language. Heavier still is just how committed this video is: From the dancers to the decked out Toyota Hiace, nothing’s left on the table. Get in, loser: We’re going to whatever party puts this on loudest.

Patrick Masterson

Silver Moth — Black Bay (Bella Union)

Black Bay by Silver Moth

The band Silver Moth is a pandemic-era coming together of Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) and his wife, singer-songwriter Elisabeth Elektra; singer-songwriter Evi Vine, plus her guitarist Steven Hill and multi-instrumentalist Ben Roberts; Abrasive Trees guitarist Andrew Rochford; and Ash Babb, drummer in Burning House and Academy of the Sun. The seven musicians convened at Black Bay studio on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland for a short stint of writing and recording, and these six songs are the result. Given it was all pulled together in the studio, the coherence is impressive, especially on opener “Henry,” which sounds like Mogwai fronted by Beth Gibbons, and “Mother Tongue,” which has the airy, exploratory feel of Meg Baird. The second half of the record is dominated by the 15-minute “Hello Doom” (a very Mogwai song title), which sounds exactly as you might imagine, searing fuzz guitar and all. Though occasionally lacking in its own distinct personality, there’s definitely sufficient chemistry on Black Bay for further Silver Moth music if the band has the time and inclination.

Tim Clarke 

Skooly — “08 Wayne” (The Real U)

Lil Wayne recently passed through Chicago on tour, and reports from the evening have it that he was rapping songs here he hadn’t touched in years (if ever). For hip-hop fans who’ve struggled with the genre’s post-Drake decentralization, it was a nice reminder of simpler times when it was easy to tell who was on top — and who knows, maybe Weezy’s “I’m Me” tour was the impetus for Kazarion Fowler’s latest single, too. The former Rich Kidz member would’ve turned 14 in 2008, so while more wizened heads might have it that Wayne’s peak was a year or two earlier, Skooly’s of the age to speak with authority that in high school hallways, there was no doubting Wayne’s imperial phase was in full effect by the year in question. Skooly doesn’t look to ape that level of language-busting dexterity, instead opting for a confident sing-song lilt with an irresistible chorus that wraps on “Cold propane / This shit is dope cocaine / I feel like ‘08 Wayne” while Buddah Bless tinkles his way across the ivories and adds just a touch of funked up synthesizer for color. In every respect, this is one to feel good about.

Patrick Masterson

Sounding Society — Homecoming Medley or Society Into Sound (Gotta Let It Out)

HOMECOMING MEDLEY or SOCIETY INTO SOUND by SOUNDING SOCIETY

Man, will somebody please burp the matrix? There’s a glitch in the circuits. How else might one explain this anomaly? The cover, which is proudly proclaimed to be AI-generated, looks like the glossy cover of a 1980s-vintage sci-fi paperback. And the sounds? At first, the music sounds like a gear-inclusive (i.e., digital and analog) retro take on New Age-tinged keyboard soundtrackery. But as the music progresses, some non-ironic improvisational chops steer the music on a less predictable, if still essentially groovy, course. Several explorational interludes and one video game parlor breakdown later, you’re left wondering just what went down. Explanation — drummer-bandleader Tomo Jacobson spends much of his time in more straight-faced, jazz-oriented settings. It would seem that you can take the jazz man out of the club, but you can’t take the creative restlessness out of his heart.

Bill Meyer

Erik Sowa — Cedar Lake Recordings Vol. 1 (Sliptoh)

Cedar Lake Recordings Vol .1 by Erik Sowa

Chicagoans will recognize Eric Sowa as a drummer who pops up in both roots and improv contexts, to make these recordings, he headed to an off-the-grid location in northern Minnesota. No electricity? No problem, he just humped a car battery to power the recording gear, along with his drums, stringed instruments and bellows-driven organ. All that trouble would be for naught if it didn’t help capture the vibe, but Sowa has gotten it right. One supposes that it took considerable concentration to self-record a virtual ensemble that feels so naturally loose. Each tune represents a modest amount of rustic headspace, and then makes way for the next.

Bill Meyer 

Dick Stusso — S.P. (Hardly Art)

S.P. by Dick Stusso

Dick Stusso distorts 1970s guitar rock through a prism, twisting blues-rock riffs into haunted litanies. His big hollowed out baritone floats elegantly through post-Waits-ian junk shop arrangements, posing, preening, italicizing every line. You can hear faint sirens through the piano bar chords of “Self Reflection (Deep).” The title screams sarcasm, but Stusso plays it relatively straight. It’s a AOR ballad turning slightly green at the edges, blown out with ghostly “woo-woo” counterparts and ending with a curdled R&B solo vocal that sounds like Merry Clayton but broken and harsh. I should mention that that’s Grace Cooper of the Sandwitches, one of the reigning queens of West Coast lofi and a long-time collaborator with Stusso. His father, the jazz saxophonist Marc Russo (Stusso’s real name is Nic Russo), makes an appearance in “Garbagedump #1,” a sloppy-drunk cakewalk treading unsteadily on second-hand-shop boogie. These 18 songs are brief but vividly imagined, throwing up film noir sound-stage vistas that are convincing unless you look at them from the side.

Jennifer Kelly

Harry Taussig — 80 (Tompkins Square)

80 by Harry Taussig

Harry Taussig is Takoma school royalty. His first recordings appeared on John Fahey’s celebrated Takoma Park record label, and his most recent have been for Tompkins Square, beginning with tracks on the seminal Imaginational Anthem series. His small catalog includes three releases over the past 10 years, the name of this one commemorating his 80th birthday. The compositions, played unaccompanied and without overdubbing on six- and 12-string acoustic guitar and five-string banjo, tend to bear titles suggestive of classical music (which Taussig cites as a primary influence in the liner notes), such as “Etude for in G Major #7.” Most have an improvisational feel, though comparison of alternate takes indicates that they are constructed with care. All three instruments sound open-tuned, as the five-string banjo usually is and as is common in the Takoma school style. Taussig has never been flashy, and his deliberate and at times hesitant approach has helped him to age somewhat more gracefully as a player than Fahey did. There is a craggy beauty to 80 well represented by the brooding photograph on the cover. Here’s hoping an 85 and a 90 will be forthcoming.

Jim Marks 

Unlearn and MP Shaw—Secret Listener (Farallon)

Secret Listener by Unlearn & MP Shaw

Bright rounded bloops of synthetic sound bob in gentle syncopation, in the uncanny valley’s muted version of funk. Two Seattle-born, SF-based electronic artists—Matthew Shaw and James Key—made this disc during the lockdown casting dystopic dread into billow-y, unearthly shadows on the wall. Thus, their “Dusting the Astral Plane” grooves in a well-cushioned, unconfrontational way; picture an actual robot doing the robot, but slowly and bathed in magic hour twilight. Two “TLR” cuts serve as whooshing, enveloping meditation breaks, the soft clarity of keyboards surging then subsuming into ambient hiss. “Article One” lists woozily on blotty smudges of synth sound, the sharp click of rhythm clattering through. All of these cuts drift and loom, the dance beats wrapped in gauzy, indeterminant tone-washes. It’s more of a pencil drumming, space-staring, transcendental vibe than anything hedonistic or physical, but very nice all the same.

Jennifer Kelly

Youniss — White Space (Viernulvier)

So what exactly distinguishes a very short album from an EP? Formal considerations like number of tracks don’t really work, and ultimately it’s just going to come down to the feel of the thing. In White Space’s case, the second album from Antwerp-based Youniss holds together strongly enough as a significant statement that neither the 20-minute runtime nor the almost beat tape-esque patchwork of these ten tracks are drawbacks. Whether going full aggro (particularly on the redlined, snapped-off “Arms Bent Back”), more atmospheric on the instrumentals “Negative Space” and “Walad,” or fully embracing a melancholy of dislocation on “SO SLOW” and “Sinking,” White Space packs a lot of sonic texture and grappling with serious issues (race, perspective, artistry, context) in a brief space. All that and it’ll consistently get your head nodding? That’s an album.

Ian Mathers

[negorski]

Nick’s Complete List of 50 Best Favorite Songs of the Year 2023

Carly Rae Jepsen – Shadow

Lil Yachty – Strike (Holster)

Bad Bunny – NO ME QUIERO CASAR

Gunna – fukumean

Veeze – Not A Drill

Bad Bunny feat. Young Miko – FINA

Playboi Carti – 2024

Lil Yachty – sHouLd i B?

Young Thug – Mad Dog

Carly Rae Jepsen – Kamikaze

Young Nudy – Okra

Carly Rae Jepsen – Stadium Love

100 gecs – Hollywood Baby

Sexyy Red – SkeeYee

Bad Bunny – LOS PITS

Lil Yachty – running out of time

Lil Yachty – SOLO STEPPIN CRETE BOY

Drake feat. Lil Yachty – Another Late Night

Rio Da Young OG – Talkin Crazy

Lana Del Rey – A&W

Carly Rae Jepsen – Aeroplanes

Drake – The Shoe Fits

Babyface Ray feat. Veeze – Bosses Linking With Bosses

Veeze feat. Babyface Ray & Icewear Vezzo – 7sixers

Young Nudy feat. 21 Savage – Peaches & Eggplants

Young Thug feat. 21 Savage – Want Me Dead

Kendrick Lamar & Baby Keem – The Hillbillies

Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist feat. Vince Staples – Mancala

BigXthaPlug feat. Ro$ama – '02 Lakers

Bad Bunny – MONACO

The Rolling Stones feat. Lady Gaga – Sweet Sounds Of Heaven

Young Thug feat. Juice WRLD & Nicki Minaj – Money

Veeze feat. Lil Yachty – Boat Interlude

Lil Yachty – TESLA

Westside Gunn feat. Stove God Cooks – House of GLORY

Babyface Ray & 42 Dugg – Ron Artest

Carly Rae Jepsen – Anything To Be With You

Olivia Rodrigo – bad idea right?

White Reaper – Pages

PinkPantheress feat. Ice Spice – Boy's a liar Pt. 2

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – LYTD (Vocoder Tests)

LUCKI – Tunevert

Southsidesilhouette – Walk Away

Fred again... Skrillex & Four Tet – Baby again...

Foo Fighters – Nothing At All

Skrillex feat. Nai Barghouti – XENA

Veeze – Weekend

That Mexican OT – Skelz

Rio Da Yung OG & RMC Mike – Lucid Nightmare 2

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown – Burfict!

[teathattast]

AND RIO DA YOUNG OG⁉️⁉️⁉️

NEW LIL DURK‼️‼️‼️

[end-of-violence]

2022ラップ③

EBK Juvie Ju x CashFedd x EBK Durkio / Triple Threat

EBK Bckdoe / Talkin To The Moon

Miiir & B'lon x EBK Bckdoe x SSRICHH33 / Smike9

Armani Depaul ft. Lul Tys & Lul Booga / Rain On Me

EBK Trey B / Comfy

Young Bull & Ralfy The Plug feat. Chiefin Heavily / You Can't Stop The Rain

Rio Da Yung OG / Still Shit Talking

YSR Gramz / IN & OUT

Louie Ray / Check In

Tre Pierre feat Veeze & Anakin / Foes

Wrld Tour Mafia / Tourmania

Veeze / 4Kobe

Jugg Harden / Still

OnFully / Royals

CHASA CHAVO X SAUCE WALKA X SANCHO SAUCY / I JUST WANNA

SPOTEMGOTTEM / Block Got Hot

SCY Jimm Ft. Luh Tyler / Wake Up

SpliffJit / Never Liked Me

Lil Wet / 500

Leaf Ward ft. Ot7QUANNY / Midnight Club

Keezah / Focused

Abra Cadabra x Headie One x Bandokay / Local

Bandokay, LD / Too Many Lies

RV Feat LD (67) / Kane & Undertaker

Dimzy x Monkey x SJ Ft Jahvillani / BADNIS

Dimzy x Swift Ft. Kidd Keo x INK / GBP/EUR

Dimzy / Mixed Emotions

K-Trap x Headie One / Extra Sleeve

アルバム

EBK Trey B / Stick Up Kid

Runitup Jaybo / Problem Child

Jublockshotta / Retaliation - EP

RSB Madmaxx / Kapital J

AFN Peso / The Real Thing Ⅱ

AFN Peso / Big Pes Lp

Young Bull & Ralfy The Plug / Hood Trophies

Almighty Suspect / Comebackseason

SahBabii / LeakOut

WNC WhopBezzy / YNWMotin

Lil Gray / Swipe Renaissance

CrrudyMurda / Paint World

Schlish / Schlish World

JG Wardy / Streets Most Wanted Vol.2

Migo Lee / Too Turnt Nw

No3ree / For Those Whn Spin

GREEDYMY YNF / St6 - EP

Brooks / Everybody Brooks

Jugg Harden / The Jugg Tape

OnFully / Full Effect

WTM Miles / Crackhouse Mafia

WTM Milt / Rafa

Trdee / Ice Trae

StanWill / Big $Hitter

YoungBagChasers [feat. Ybcdul] / PSA

SCY Jimm / THE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Spliffjitt / Street Politician

Wizzhavin / Mr. Too Sticky

19Jefe / Everything Certified

Abra 2022

[crimedawgbylaw]

ShittyBoyz - “Jackie Moon (feat. Rio Da Young OG & RMC Mike)”

ShittyBoyz run into my favorite rap duo of the moment. Shouts out to PinkChardonnay for the consistent Rio Da Young Og and RMC Mike coverage. 

[raygarraty]

Best production of the year

Cypress: BandGang Lonnie Bands - Boston George

Pdot: Cash Kidd & Jaiswan - Shipping and Handling

Sav: Young Slo-Be - Asshole

Stupid Dog: Rio Da Yung Og - Free Runtz

BamOnDaBeat: Louie Ray - Success Is A Feeling