hardcore hip hop
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El-P and Killer Mike team up for an even more ambitious Run the Jewels record!
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clipping. lives up to hip hop tradition and pushes “noise hop” unorthodoxy on their sophomore album.
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After a decade-long hiatus, one of the most hardcore acts in New York hop hop return with a new album that’s backed with some solid boom bap production from Snowgoons.
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Indiana rapper Freddie “Gangsta” Gibbs teams up with legendary hip hop producer Madlib for one of the most essential hip hop albums of the year.
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Richmond’s BLACKHANDPATH is properly fucked up. They identify themselves as a noise rap group, but that label does not particularly satisfy. As can be heard above with the new single “Don’t Choke,” the outfit’s “MC” has both a greater affinity for yelling and greater disregard for maintaining
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Underground MC The Man From Somewhere Else has teamed up with producer Aoi for an EP that’s gonna be dropping sometime in January of 2014. Here’s a trailer: The duo recently dropped the track that’s streaming at the top of this post, which features verses from Shape
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While East Coast MC Action Bronson didn’t skimp on the personality with this new tape of his, there are certainly a lot of aimless, short-of-breath tracks here that really feel like filler.
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Pusha T, Virginia rapper and one half of the famed hip hop duo Clipse, released some pretty potent singles before the drop of his new album here; however, the final product seems to be cut with a handful of weak tracks.
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Rapper Danny Brown returns with Old. It’s an album that mirrors the Detroit native’s constant cycle of drug-fueled partying and remorse that was introduced on 2011’s XXX. The major difference this time around being heavier instrumentals and Danny’s split personalities feeling even more at odds.