Reef The Lost Cauze & Snowgoons – Your Favorite MC (2011) Sean Born - 909 Jack: BTS Pause Mix (2012) Grip Grand & DJ MF Shalem - Rewinder (2011) Self Scientific – Trials Of The Blackhearted EP (2011) Malcolm & Martin - Life Doesn't Frighten Me (2011)ĭom Kennedy - The Original Dom Kennedy (2011)
Roc Marciano & Gangrene - Greneberg EP (2011) Ill Bill & Vinnie Paz - Heavy Metal Kings (2011) Omen - Afraid Of Heights (Mixtape) (2011) Timeless Truth - Brugal & Presidentes EP (2012)Īb-Soul - LongTerm Mentality (Mixtape) (2011) I Self Devine – LA State Of Mind EP (2012) Surreal & DJ Balance - Future Classic (2006) TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps (2011) Ryshon Jones - Brightest Nights, Darkest Days (2011) Tony Touch - The Best Toca Tuesdays Freestyles of 2011 (2011) Rashid Hadee – Year In Music 2011 (Mixtape) (2011)ĭJ Jazzy Jeff - The Return Of The Magnificent (2007)
Phil Ade – #PhilAdeFridayII Mixtape (2011) Smoke DZA – Sweet Baby Kushed God EP (2011)īrown Bag AllStars – 2011: A Year In Review (Mixtape) Tayyib Ali - Keystone State Of Mind (2011)Īudible Doctor - Year Of The Audible Doctor Remix (2011) Granite State - The Breaking Point (2006) The list below is simply meant to serve as a reference for the true hip hop heads who want to browse through the albums that I've been checking out over the past year (2012).
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**Note: Many of the download links below that I previously found over the past year will undoubtedly be broken / have been deleted by the time of this posting. I am not saying that all of these albums are good or that I've listened to everyone just yet, but they all did happen to peak my curiosity enough to give them a try.īonus: See the two links below for the previous two installments of "Return Of The Album" If you like my taste in hip hop then take a browse through some of these and see if you find anything that you like / may have missed in your travels through the musical landscape in 2012.
This is simply a list of the hip hop albums that I've checked out over the past year (a random smattering of hip hop that is either new or obscure enough for me never to have heard it before). I thoroughly enjoy listening to the music as the artist meant it to be heard. And Mobb Deep’s Prodigy delivers on the threat with his astonishing first verse: “Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone…” It’s the kind of thing that should get you locked up for life.Here is the 3rd installment of " Return Of The Album", an ode to listening to a hip hop CD/Mixtape in full. It’s the sound of a looming threat that could exist in any era. II” so timeless is that it’s also somewhat generic.
II,” Mobb Deep’s Havoc combined three equally mercurial jazz samples: Herbie Hancock’s “Jessica,” “Daly-Wilson Big Band’s “Dirty Feet” and Quincy Jones “Kitty With The Bent Frame.” The songs are so obscure (at least to hip hop fans), their presence in the track remained somewhat of a mystery for a decade and a half. II.” That slow drum beat and those sirens seemingly ripped out of a horror film. There’s something immediately terrifying about “Shook Ones, Pt.