Hip Hop 2018

earl sweatshirt , only one listen so far but its sounding pretty special , some nice soul samples in there

WU TANG TINY CONCERT merry christmas

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673291531/wu-tang-clan-tiny-desk-concert?jwsource=cl

Mac was nominated for a Grammy for Swimming. Wish he was here to see it.


https://twitter.com/Navjosh/status/1071038239148957696

Wu Tang Clan up on Tiny Desk since yesterday.

not a bad list , going to work my way through a few that i've not heard yet

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-rap-albums-of-2018/

Boom_Bap wrote: »

F*ck it, I'm going to listen through that full list.
Starting with Armand Hammer, my god this album is glorious.

yeah its really good , got as far as Benny the Butcher reminds me of company flow /indie hip hop , loving it

How is Mac Miller's Swimming not on that list?

It's in the top 3 albums of the year for me along with Daytona and Redemption.

With the caveat that I haven't given more than a cursory glance at Astroworld or Earl Sweatshirt, which a lot of people seem to rate.

Maybe so, but I'd find it hard to consider it anything but a rap album. There is more singing of hooks or choruses but pretty much every verse is rapped rather than sung.

I know a lot of people only came to him due to his death, and I'm probably one of them (though more because of his tiny desk than his death) but despite that it is a true masterpiece of an album for me and one of my favourite albums of all time if I'm honest.

I can see the arguments against it.

As a standalone it may just sound like a nice album to someone who hasn't followed him, dug into his past or followed his development.

At the same time, it is such a complete album in terms of theme, arc and storyline. The music and production is beautiful and I can listen to it over and over without ever skipping a song.

But yeah, I can see why it might be seen as a "nice" album to listen to without any real commercial singles if you didn't do any digging any deeper on meanings or themes.

EDIT:

Just to add - I totally agree with you on it being a culmination of everything he had done so far.

I mean it addresses the addiction and depression, fear and anxiety that made his Faces and Watching Movies albums so dark and intriguing, yet he has packaged it in a totally different manner, with easy listening beats and it just seems so much more developed and mature. He really sounds comfortable with what he is doing and who he is, as opposed to someone who is searching for where he fits in (musically) like we see him developing over those albums (plus Macadelic).

The saddest part of it all for me is that we won't get to see the results of that development culminate in further projects to see where he could have gone with it all.

That said, the rumours about him having pretty much completed his next project (Circles) are hopefully true, and I'm hoping we will get to hear it sooner rather than later if his family choose to release it, which from what I have read and heard was his wish prior to his death.

waynescales1 wrote: »

I'm only getting around to Lupe's latest album now. How you people find the time to listen to all these albums amazes me.

All takes place in work for me! Luckily i cam sit at the desk with earphones in.

Pitchfork gave Mac Millers first album 1/10. They warmed to him a bit later but they were never that gone on him so putting him in best albums of the year would probably be a little out of character.

Just keeping up with singles on blogs/tumblr is a lot. A lot of them do best tracks of the month lists so I've listened to hundreds of tracks this year but feck all full lengths.