Apr 3, 2020

yessirrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Apr 3, 2020

Day 47



You know the world is in a weird place when Nav - yeah, NAV - drops one of the best songs of the year.

 

Apr 2, 2020

Day 46:



TBT. As one of the foremost economists of the 2008 financial crisis, the world could use some wisdom from Professor Snow right now (side note: the new tape/album is dope). The Recession is a downright classic, My President the triumphant closer celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama and Jeezy's garish taste in Lambo colors (oh yeah, theres also a really good Nas feature too). The more things change the more they stay the same.

 

Apr 1, 2020

Day 45



Alc's ominous slow-burn sounds like you're in the water while the sharks circle. To make matters worse you've got Conway and Q snarling threats at you like only they how. You have no idea how its going to end but eitherway it ain't gonna be pretty.

 

Mar 29, 2020

Day 42:



I don't think I've ever heard a Bishop Nehru song before this, which popped up on my YouTube feed yesterday. I know of Nehru - who previously put out an entire album alongside the legendary DOOM (I havent listened to that either), but besides that, he was just one of those names that had fallen by the wayside. It seems like I may have been missing out. A DJ Premier instrumental is the backdrop to Nehru's inner-monologue; a three-way debate between 'me, myself and I'. Count me intrigued.

 

Mar 27, 2020

100 replies! long lives your thread Sav, clearly one of the best things on SXN80 right now

 

Mar 20, 2020

Day 33



Roddy Rich's debut album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial propelled him to become one of the biggest names in the game. Its a great album - no question but Roddy's best song (so far) can be found on his 2018 EP Feed the Streets II. Whether that is Die Young or Every Season is debatable, but I find myself returning to this more.

 

Mar 17, 2020

Day 30



RIP Mac.

 

Mar 16, 2020

Day 29



One of the few new songs on Drakeo's latest FREEDRAKEO compilation which dropped a few weeks ago, this one featuring fellow Stinc Team member 03 Greedo (who also happens to be behind bars) and the indomitable Maxo Kream. Drakeo's debut album which dropped at the tail end of 2017 is one of the most under-appreciated gems of the last decade and this compilation shows why he's still one of the most exciting voices coming out of the Bay. #FREEDRAKEO

 

Mar 14, 2020

Day 27



Released towards the end of 2015, just before the SoundCloud era exploded, the first collaboration project between Thouxanbanfauni and UnotheActivist is a fascinating glimpse into why Chief Keef is - without question - the most influential artist of the 2010s.The instrumentals, aesthetics, flows, everything down to the adlibs is repurposed and draped in a hazy, drugged-out, lo-fi SoundCloud sheen. Think of these 2 as the bridge between Sosa and Carti, this song as the best case study of that connection.

 

Mar 12, 2020

Day 25



ATL native/Cleveland repping, and Freebandz signee Doe Boy has been dropping music since 2012 but Decembers' Streetz Need Me 2 has pushed him into the spotlight. A breath of fresh air in a scene swamped with Thug/Future clones, Doe Boy takes a lot of inspiration from 80s/90's LA (according to a recent interview, Future called him up and told him "You gotta make the project sound like that old school Eazy E and Ice Cube"). On this standout, which features YG on the album version, and which blew up after it got the Lebron treatment, Doe Boy channels NWA, threatening his opps over that unmistakeable piano loop.

 

Mar 11, 2020

Day 24



Doughboy Roc, member of the infamous Detroit Doughboyz Cashout collective was shot and killed in 2017. The group's best-known member - Payroll Giovanni has put out a stream of consistently excellent music since, but the group as a whole hasn't. This one's off one of their last projects - 2014's We Run the City, Vol. 4 - the final in a series that saw them starting off in 2008 as an unknown act but has since laid the foundations for the new wave of Detroit rap thats exploded in recent years - from Sada Baby to Tee Grizzley to Teejayx6, you can still hear the sounds of DBC echoing in Motown's streets.

 

Mar 8, 2020

Day 22



The much hyped mid-00's union between G Unit x Mobb Deep never really resulted in the greatness that was promised. There were a few notable exceptions though, this aptly titled song being one of them. Here we get a horror soundtrack courtesy of none other than Dre himself, with the grand thumping bass slowly building up to a screeching psychotic climax. Prodigy and Havoc reignite the hunger that was so often lacking from their mid-career music and 50 takes a page of the Mobb's book, expertly balancing the macabre of the streets with its emotional toll.

 

Mar 7, 2020

Day 21



Its been exactly five years since Maxo dropped his second album/mixtape - and the one that made me a fan - MAXO187. Although his subsequent projects have all been excellent, critically acclaimed and commercially successful, with Maxo improving in leaps and bounds, there was something about this project that holds it apart from the others. Its the rawness, the gritty, grimy, filthiness of songs like these that sound like they were recorded in the trap house basement with Maxo clutching his gun in one hand and a bag in the other, occasionally peering over his shoulder to make sure the feds weren't knocking down the door. Cinematic.

 

Mar 6, 2020

Day 20



One of the best songs (off one of the best albums) to ever come out of the TDE camp.

"man that s--- gon be the death of me"

 

Mar 4, 2020

Day 18



Key Glock doesn't have the same omnipotent mic presence as his cousin Young Dolph (to be fair, literally no one does) but that doesn't stop him from making some of the hardest, crunchiest Memphis rap out there today. On the second track of his latest (and imo, his best) album Yellow Tape, Glock interpolate Snoop and Dre's G Thang over an earth-rattling beat cut by an abrupt little riff that sounds like car tires squealing in a late night police chase. Slap of the highest caliber.

 

Mar 3, 2020

Day 17



Yep, I'm dead serious. This is what I'm listening to right now. Zack Fox described this best: Lil B deconstructed everything. Young Thug came in and rearranged the pieces as he saw fit. Carti picked them up played with them. 645AR picks up what Carti started, inhaled a bunch of helium and.... I have no idea what will happen next. But it is fascinating.

 

Feb 29, 2020

Day 14



I'm furious this isn't available on streaming services. Sada is without a question the best thing to come out of Detroit in a minute. He's dropped THREE immaculate back-to-back tapes over the past 12 months and releases a constant stream of insanely good loosies on YT on a regular basis. This is the best of those imo, featuring a typically Detroitian Helluva beat Sada grunts and shimmies and dances over like he's dancing on his enemies graves. Hilarious, smooth, so disrespectful you sometimes almost feel like it might be too much.