East Coast EP of 2017

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Pick your top three.

Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman – Triple Fat Lice
2
7%
Big Twins & DJ Skizz – Billy Ocean
3
11%
Crimeapple – Perfect
0
No votes
Cryptic One – World According... 2
2
7%
Dave East – Paranoia: A True Story
0
No votes
Deem Spencer – we think we alone
1
4%
Elucid – Valley of Grace
3
11%
Flatlinerz – 66ix: Chapter 2
0
No votes
GrandeMarshall – RISK / REWARD
0
No votes
Grandmilly & Shozae – Mausoleum
1
4%
Hezekiah – Gods
0
No votes
Jak Progresso – Base Camp
0
No votes
Jay-Z – 4:44 Bonus
0
No votes
K.A.A.N. – Abstractions
0
No votes
Kamiyada – Kill the Space God
0
No votes
La the Darkman – The Lavish vs. The Savage
1
4%
Lil Uzi Vert – Luv is Rage 1.5
0
No votes
The LOX – #4NoReAsOn
0
No votes
Mach-Hommy x ThaGodFahim – Dollar Menu
1
4%
Meek Mill – Meekend Music
1
4%
MF Grimm – American Hunger Rebirth
0
No votes
MIKE – By the Water
0
No votes
Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry – Moor x Jewelry: Crime Waves
0
No votes
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire – Brainiac
2
7%
Ray West & Dave Dar – The Sun Don't Chill
0
No votes
Showbiz & A.G. – Take It Back
6
21%
Skyzoo – Peddler Themes
0
No votes
Styles P & Talib Kweli – The Seven
3
11%
Tragedy Khadafi – Rare Fabric
0
No votes
Truman Snow – Kingdom Heartless
0
No votes
Vincent, the Owl – DrivingFuckedUp I
0
No votes
Westside Gunn – Riots on Fashion Avenue
1
4%
Wiz Khalifa – Kush & OJ: 7 Year Anniversary
0
No votes
Young M.A. – Herstory
0
No votes
Your Old Droog & Wiki – What Happened to Fire?
1
4%
 
Total votes: 28

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East Coast EP of 2017

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Previous Winners:

2014 – Your Old Droog – Your Old Droog
2015 – Your Old Droog – Kinison
2016 – Conway & Westside Gunn – Don't Get Scared Now

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Didn't listen to most of the stuff on your list. Whatever, Elucid "Valley of Grace", Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire "Brainiac" and the Cryp One EP are nice.

Ain't Showbiz & AG's "Take It Back" an official album?

By the way, 2 of my favorite EPs this year are Crimeapple "Metralleta" and Lil Eto & V Don "Omertà".

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You can always listen to something you haven't heard and then change your vote.

Take It Back was first released as a free EP before it dropped as a limited album through the Slice-of-Spice label.

Perfect made the cut over Metralleta, good call on the Lil Eto & V Don.

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Skizz & Twins for me.

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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.

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Mach-Hommy- Dollar Menu gets my vote, all his other EP's would be tied if they were listed.

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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.

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unclebengi wrote:Mach-Hommy - Dollar Menu gets my vote, all his other EPs would be tied if they were listed.
Exactly, that one became the representative for both Hommy and Fahim, rather than splitting the vote.

And he will be present in an album poll.
Versive wrote: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.
More so with albums and mixtapes, not as much with albums and EPs I don't think. Because there the distinction has always been duration. I generally tend to say that anything shorter than Illmatic / Sgt. Pepper's (39:52) qualifies as an EP.

But yes, East Coast stepped up with EPs this year. The last three years seemingly have been dominated by the other two regions, but I think the West, and SoCal in particular somehow collectively chose to focus more on albums this go 'round.

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Having heard none of these voted for LA, Xquire, and Cryptic.

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everybody should really be listening to Mach Hommy tbh
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Kool Max Power wrote:Didn't listen to most of the stuff on your list. Whatever, Elucid "Valley of Grace", Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire "Brainiac" and the Cryp One EP are nice.

Ain't Showbiz & AG's "Take It Back" an official album?

By the way, 2 of my favorite EPs this year are Crimeapple "Metralleta" and Lil Eto & V Don "Omertà".
Been hearing about this album from a few people actually.

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only thing on this list i heard was Droog and Wiki.

with all these lists, there's a majority of "oh i had no idea this existed. who was behind marketing this? i would have listened to this if i had known." going on.

and i listen to music daily and try to listen to new music every other week or so at the least.

and people who don't even go out of their way to find new music are all "everything recent is trash".

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most of this stuff barely has any marketing, if any. people just don't have budgets for that. you either need to follow the artist directly on twitter or wherever, or happen to follow the blog that happens to cover whatever niche the artist fell into
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Thanks for this list, got me checking out more stuff by Crimeapple and Grandmilly & Shozae.

Cheers.

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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.

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