#2012bof

so many kendrick stans and so many kendrick haters i cbf dealing with niggas like that smh  note: pls dont be like "how the fuck you just say Killer Mike album a classic but this the FIRST??" Mike 37 yrs old bruh bruh. aint no new gen there. 

aight. initially when i was making this list i was thinking R.A.P. Music would prolly come in around 6 or 7. y'know, i thought it was dope af but nothing THAT special. but, forreal, when i re-listened to this i realised some shit. i realised R.A.P. Music was a classic, lowkey. it doesnt have the widespread critical acclaim and didnt get niggas talking about it like that, but its most definitely an underground classic.  what more could you want from Mike on this b? son dropping gems of all different colours on this project bruh. yawl got Big Beast which is strictly G and Atlanta to the fullest. yawl got some next level knowledge on Reagan, crazy af storytelling on Jojo's Chillin, some more heartfelt type ish in Untitled and Anywhere But Here. the list goes on and on. diversity is mad nice. gotta give a huge shoutout to El-P for the production too, amazing work. LOWKEY CLASSIC BRUH 

yo Frank been on a journey and Channel ORANGE reflects that. all of son's joints take all its listeners on a journey b. the whole album is just some beautiful shit. i aint really no what to say about this project cos RnB or w/e aint really my area of expertise. i just fucks with this heavy bruh. whole album got a good concept, telling Frank's story of when he first fell in love and shit. son got a crazy nice voice. killing shit with that falsetto or w/e. production tight af. only three features, Andre 3k blessing us all with a verse. yo imma say some shit right quick. VAST MAJORITY of GREAT albums got hardly any features on em. obviously theres a few exceptions like The Roots and Kanye, but majority of niggas thats got hella guest verses is cos they aint really got shit to say and they aware they kinda wack. Frank defs got shit to say. and yeh w/e. Channel ORANGE got some classic potential in its genre. fwm

waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too many ppl are sleeping on Roc Ma tbh. son is a very very good rapper. Roc just goes in on joints with this menacing flow and he one of the best storytellers in the game right now. he on some darker, more personal ish on this project compared to Marcberg (his debut LP). Listen to Flash Gordon and yawl will get the theme of this album; initially i was gonna quote a line or two from that joint but the entire song is quotable, ya feel me? The beats are pretty bleak but it fits the darkness of Roc's lyrcis, and you really cant complain about production from Q-Tip and Alchemist. aint a weak joint on here neither, nothing even close to a weak joint on here. Roc kept the features minimal so aint no wack niggas showing up; Ka shows up forreal tho and that man is a fkn beast on the mic. Very good to see two New York Mcs linking up for some dope shit. If you fucks with Raekwon and Mobb Deep and shit like that, then yawl needa cop this album b

the progress as a rapper Soulo made since he released LTM is pretty crazy bruh. son stepped up a couple levels for Control System. he improved in every aspect tbh and that allowed him to get across his hella complex ideas a lot better. Ab on some wordy af, higher-level, third-eye thinking type ish. everything he says is intelligent even when hes going dumb and nowadays thats very rare in a rapper. tbh there isnt another MC much like him at all. Soulo defs got a lot of opinions and he aint afraid to let niggas know about em. i aint really one for conspiracy theories but when its delivered in the form of joints like Terrorist Threats i aint finna complain. production hella nice too. TDE producers are pretty huge on the boards. aight. fuck with this shit b

aight yo this project only got five songs on it but they all dope af. i wasnt really too familiar with the big homies Hudson and Lunice before this shit neither so it was cool to get something new. aint no rapping just crazy ass production, for all of yawl that was unaware. it wasnt really hip hop production either. i dont think any rapper could go in on these joints and do them justice; Captain Murphy went in on Bugg'n and Kendrick Lamar freestyled over one of them, but i didnt think either of those really worked. there is NO WAY a nigga could go in and body beats like these. there isnt really a way, i can see, to ride these beats either; shit is going all over the place, crazy af. that being said, the EP was short and snappy, and got me vibing hella bad. i mean HELLA bad, like i be swagging out in front of my computer and falling out my chair and then im like fuck it and i just be dancing on the floor, flopping all about like im on my Reggie Evans #NBAjokes 

1. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid) 2. Shame (Instrumental) 3. Later That Night (Bonus Beat) 4. Shame (Acapella)   5. Terrorist 6. Terrorist (Instrumental) 7. The Morning After (Bonus Beat) 8. Terrorist (Acapella) that some different shit bruh. hard to even call it an EP but w/e. Madlib always leaving instrumentals on projects a la Madvillainy, but to have the instrumental of the last song and then the acapella just another song later is some weird shit that proved to be very clever b. Freddie even left his inner-thug at home when he was in the studio, even if it was for just two songs. Madlib one of my fave producers of all time and he just crafting some beautiful shit on here. say what you will but i really fucked with chilling back to this album b.

think Jay-Z, son aint dumb or nothing but he isnt using no thesauruses when hes rhyming but he one of the GOATs cos of his charismatic ways. Nas a fkn GOAT too and he about a light-year ahead on the lyrical-illness scale, but he aint get nowhere near the shine Jay get, 50 yr old women in the suburbs know who Jay-Z is b. forreal tho im not saying Joey lacks charisma, cos he doesnt, but Bronson on some NEXT LEVEL charisma and mic presence and that shit hold him downnnnnnn, despite losing in the lyrical aspect to Joey. aight peace xx