drizzle wrote:Some of my favorite stuff of the year on here
It's between Mach and Armand Hammer for me. Mach ended up being my favorite rapper of 2017, and HBO was his best release, but I'm giving the edge to Rome in this poll because HBO is technically from 2016. Otherwise I hold them in pretty much the same high regard.
G-Perico had a tremendous year, All Blue was on my list until last Friday when he put out an even better album.
The Meyhem/Muggs album is a really great little record that finally gives Meyhem an album that matches his talent and totally shits on most other younger rapper + classic producer releases.
I knew it would get brought up and that I had other safer options as far as Mach Hommy albums go, but considering how elusive, sought after, and discussed it was last year, coupled with the fact that nobody heard it unless you were one of the thirty seven or whatever people who shelled out for the physical copies, nobody actually heard HBO last year. I've seen others list it in some of this year's write-ups for that reason. It's the album that everyone who has heard him is going to know of if not be familiar with as a starter point, the one of his that truly put him on the map.
Plus it's fun just as a conversation piece that he's taken the high price limited style approach typically only seen in hip hop with unreleased projects recorded decades earlier, taking the throwaway aspect of today's music and flipping it on its head in order to drive the interest up.
G. Perico's second solo album of the year had dropped hours before I made this poll. We've been doing a November to November thing, so that would put that LP into next year's selections anyway (unless he bests himself yet again, in which case we'd go with whatever that one ends up being).