How random is it that we got an Inspectah Deck/Doom album before the Ghostface/Doom album?

woah, thanks for this!

All in all the album's pretty fun. Only a couple songs at the end didn't do anything for me.

Ask him what he thinks of Bronze Nazareth, and if he would consider collaborating with him. If those two made an album together I'm not sure my brain could process it. Two best hip hop artists from the past decade plus imo. Hard to imagine The Great Migration was 12 years ago. Assuming you've heard...

I am very jealous of you right now... Is he cognizant of my website's existence (LIRB)? Does the rising popularity of his sound inspire him to try other sounds or outdo his imitators? Both? Neither? What wrong(s) is Rosebudd getting revenge for? On "Sweet Nothings," he spit, "Do the tango on the yay...

Schoolly D has another one actually:

The mix sounds much better. The Mix for the Vinyl version of the Rosebud's Revenge album was perfectly fine but of course none of you morons would know that because y'all only stream and download. smh Actually I bought the vinyl, but I'm comparing apples to apples because there is not yet an RR2 vi...

The mix sounds much better. Shouts to Mushroom Jesus.

Peace Verse! I checked that page before didnt know you ran it. Heard of Bub Rock out of LI? Got some Roc Marci sounding joints https://www.instagram.com/p/BdirncHlj0y/?taken-by=jazzungang" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; https://soundcloud.com/cardi100" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

I spent the evening putting this post together: http://www.longislandrap.com/2018/01/bu ... ciano.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It has the Busta Rhymes, Notorious B.I.G., Roc Marciano, J. Dilla track mentioned above ... plus a bunch of words.

mike eagle wrote:Ganjah K

What the fuck?! First I'm hearing of this too. Damn ... RIP.

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Oh shit, saw Roc or Shoes or somebody tweeting about this song the other day. The mix on there is available for download so it's light work to slice it, no?

Can any fans of this group tell us whether or not the CZARFACES concept and comic book crossover have allowed for the glorious return of the Esoterodactyl ("my rap skills will thrash you") character? And if so, please describe in as much detail as possible.

Don't sleep on Motel Six, the first EP sho and milly did this yr. Mausoleum is slightly better IMO but it's a different vibe and also very good.

drizzle wrote:MIKE and Medslaus are really worth keeping an eye on if you came up during the backpack era

Word ... or just if you dig any kind of free jazz or strange-skewing soul music, I'd add.

Armand Hammer & Mach Hommy

Shouts to OME for an AMAZING album though. Any other year, it'd take it.

Buy Muy Drugs
Medslaus – Poorboy
Quelle Chris – Being You is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
Milo – Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?!
MIKE – May God Bless Your Hustle

Looking back, I think the Phila AOTY has actually been pretty on point. Only a few oversights, most of which can easily be chalked up to this being a hip-hop message board...

For me, from this list, it's Culture and Rosebudd's Revenge.

Brothers G.R.Y.M. – Ghetto Repaired Young Minds

Can't beat unreleased Poetic.

i fucking love it

Subtle but promising borkdom on display with this first ever post BTW. Welcome...

SOTC is completely on some other shit, that needs it's own category. I think the Medslaus thing was an album. Yeah, one could conceive of SOTC, DJ Escrow, Babyfather, ELUCID, Moor Mother and surely a few others in a "rap-inspired experimental weirdo shit" poll. eh the whole thing is incomprehensibl...

Saw they did an instrumental project this year? Is Deck making beats or have 7L & Esoteric just fully rebranded themselves as Czarface?

KMD - Black Bastards is the only answer for me.

I love the one he did with Knxledge and the newer one with the multiple Earl beats ... figured he's gonna get nuff love in the album polls tho.

Haven't heard enough of these to vote confidently on anything but that Denmark Vessey. Got some homework to do....

(Realizing my East Coast bias was at an all-time-high this year.)

Elucid - Valley of Grace
Deem Spencer - we think we alone
Grandmilly & Shoaze - Mausoleum

Honorable mention: Truman Snow - Kingdom Heartless

Again, the whole debate of is this an album vs. ep vs. mixtape skews this a bit. Regardless, clearly a great year for the East Coast EP.

Jesus ... I literally didn't hear any of these!

sleazy_j wrote:i totally cant get into Elucid's voice. kinda ruins Armand Hammer for me.

That's wild. Sorry to hear that.

Biggest oversight of all, and again this could/should be considered an album: Meslaus - Poor Boy