This week in music:
YSIV — Logic
No matter the musical alter-ego he assumes, Logic just keeps Logic-ing. But this time around, his illustrious guests — namely, the motherfucking Wu Tang Clan — are the main attractions.
MUDBOY — Sheck Wes
An underground rave, with the buoyant, unfettered joy of young discovery. Young Thug and Future’s mumbling (but, you know, actually good), mixed with Lil Skies’s wonderfully low-fi sound — like a high-schooler who hits it big from his bedroom recording studio, walking on the right side of the fine line between endearing amateurishness and just being amateur — and, for the alarming cherry on top, the sonic sensibility of 6IX9INE’s peculiar abrasiveness.
Beloved — Dave East & Styles P
Straight rap.
DIME TRAP — T.I.
lol
Drip Harder — Lil Baby & Gunna
Will Lil Baby ever scale the heights of Too Hard again? As for Gunna…whatever.
Life After Fame — Quando Rondo
Auto-tuned within an inch of its life. There’s a difference between novel utilizations of this 21st century technology in pursuit of new sounds — ala the ways EDM has shaken up R&B; think how Kodak Black takes the form to its illogically-extreme conclusion — and just conventionally relying on it to elevate inferior voices. This album falls in the latter category .
Role Model — Young Dolph
The five popular rappers who inflict, oh so prolifically, the most aural pain: YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Moneybagg Yo, Money Man (so many references to moolah!), Don Q, and our boy here Young Dolph. This Public Service Announcement brought to you by my masochistic side.
2018 Albums, Ranked
- Black Panther — Kendrick Lamar
- Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe
- Kamikaze — Eminem
- NASIR — Kanye West & Nas
- DAYTONA — Kanye West & Pusha T
- Lies After Love — Drama
- High As Hope — Florence + The Machine
- Queen — Nicki Minaj
- KIDS SEE GHOSTS — Kanye West & Kid Cudi
- East Atlanta Love Letter — 6LACK
- Milky Way — Bas
- The Color of You — Alina Baraz
- Redemption — Jay Rock
- Swimming — Mac Miller
- Light of Mine — KYLE
- beerbongs & bentleys — Post Malone
- Man of the Woods — Justin Timberlake
- Scorpion — Drake
- ye — Kanye West
- Treehouse — Sofi Tukker
- ZOO — Russ
- Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes
- DAY69 — 6ix9ine
- Testing — A$AP Rocky
- EVERYTHING IS LOVE — The Carters
- ? — XXXTENTACION
- Culture 2 — Migos
- YSIV — Logic
- K.T.S.E. — Kanye West & Teyana Taylor
- SR3MM — Rae Sremmurd, Swae Lee & Slim Jxmmi
- The Now Now — Gorillaz
- Hive Mind — The Internet
- My Dear Melancholy, — The Weeknd
- Bobby Tarantino II — Logic
- MUDBOY — Sheck Wes
- Vacation in Hell — Flatbush Zombies
- GANGIN — SOB X RBE
- Sex & Cigarettes — Toni Braxton
- Cry Pretty — Carrie Underwood
- Sorry To Bother You: The Soundtrack — The Coup
- Head in the Clouds — 88rising
- Survive the Summer — Iggy Azalea
- LIFE’S A TRIP — Trippie Redd
- ONEPOINTFIVE — Aminé
- Isolation — Kali Uchs
- Blindspotting: The Collin EP — Daveed Diggs
- D6: Reloaded — Lil Wayne
- KOD — J. Cole
- For My Fans — Fetty Wap
- Little Dark Age — MGMT
- Blue Madonna — BØRNS
- TA1300 — Denzel Curry
- Tha Carter V — Lil Wayne
- How We React and How We Recover — Jason Robert Brown
- ASTROWORLD — Travis Scott
- 44/876 — Sting & Shaggy
- Amen — Rich Brian
- Five Five — Pouya
- It’s Complicated — Wale
- Beach House 3 Bonus Tracks — Ty Dolla $ign
- STAY DANGEROUS — YG
- Self Promotion — Wale
- I Used to Know Her: The Prelude — H.E.R.
- Punken — Maxo Kream
- Expectations — Bebe Rexha
- 4275 — Jacquees
- Common Ground — Above & Beyond
- Love Yourself Tear — BTS
- Lost & Found — Jorja Smith
- Trapholizay — Zaytoven
- Cosmic — Bazzi
- I Want to Die In New Orleans — $uicide Boy$
- California — Diplo
- When We (Remix) — Tank
- 2.23 — Blac Youngsta
- Invasion of Privacy — Cardi B
- That’s A Girl’s Name — DRAM
- Life of a Dark Rose — Lil Skies
- Beloved — Dave East & Styles P
- As She Pleases — Madison Beer
- Still Run — Wet
- Legends of the Summer— Meek Mill
- Youngblood — 5 Seconds of Summer
- Ready — Ella Mai
- BEWARE THE BOOK OF ELI — Ski Mask the Slump God
- Activated — Tee Grizzley
- God’s Favorite Customer — Father John Misty
- Vibras — J Balvin
- By the Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile
- The Big Pescado — Berner
- Rico — Berner
- Free Lunch — Wale
- Play — Dave Grohl
- Hoodwolf 2 — HoodRich Pablo Juan & Danny Wolf
- Rolling Papers 2 — Wiz Khalifa
- P2 — Dave East
- Camila — Camila Cabello
- I Like It Loud — Tiesto
- M A N I A — Fall Out Boy
- Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle
- MEMORIES DON’T DIE — Tory Lanez
- Human — Steve Angello
- International Artist — A Boogie wit da Hoodie
- Fuck Everybody 2 — Blac Youngsta
- Bless Yo Trap — Smokepurpp & Murda Beatz
- Goodbye & Good Riddance — Juice WRLD
- Reckless — NAV
- The Longshot — The Longshot
- Fate — Tammy Rivera
- The World is Yours — Rich the Kid
- 23 — Jaydayoungan
- Kolorblind — DJ ESCO
- Edgewood — Trouble & Mike WiLL Made-It
- Hurtin’ Me — Stefflon Don
- F.A.M.E. — Maluma
- Rearview Town — Jason Aldean
- This One’s For You Too — Luke Combs
- Obsessed: Hedwig and the Angry Inch — Lena Hall
- November — SiR
- The Chocolate Box — Jeremih
- Sweetener — Ariana Grande
- Voicenotes — Charlie Puth
- The Vault — G-Eazy
- Dan + Shay — Dan + Shay
- Heart Break Kodak — Kodak Black
- Die Lit — Playboi Carti
- Ottopsy — Chief Keef
- Lil Boat 2 — Lil Yachty
- Glock Bond — Key Glock
- Drip Season 3 — Gunna
- Spiritual Conversations — Mozzy
- SUPERFLY — Future & Co.
- DIME TRAP — T.I.
- On the Rvn — Young Thug
- Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
- We Beefin? — at Wendys
- Until Death Call My Name Reloaded — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Harder Than Ever — Lil Baby
- The Play Don’t Care Who Makes It — 2 Chainz
- Real Hasta la Muerte — Anuel AA
- Bad Witch — Nine Inch Nails
- Mansion Musick — Chief Keef
- Humble Beast (Deluxe) — G Herbo
- 4Freedom — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Rich As In Spirit — Rich Homie Quan
- Pain and Pleasure — Tink
- Ray Ray from Summerhill — YFN Lucci
- Freda’s Son — YFN Lucci
- Dex Meets Dexter — Famous Dex
- Swervo — G Herbo & Southside
- Forever — Popcaan
- Age Of — Oneohtrix Point Never
- Queen Naija — Queen Naija
- Just Cause Y’all Waited — Lil Durk
- Apart — Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
- Karma 2 — Dave East
- Slime Language — Young Thug & Young Stoner Life Records
- The Marina — Curren$y & Harry Fraud
- BEASTMODE 2 — Future
- Aura — Ozuna
- Sick Boy…Everybody Hates Me — The Chainsmokers
- Hear No Evil — Young Thug
- First Time — Liam Payne
- Chained to the City — Kevin Gates
- Drip Harder — Lil Baby & Gunna
- No Stylist — French Montana
- Life After Fame — Quando Rondo
- Master the Day of Judgement — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Until Death Call My Name — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- 2 Heartless — Moneybagg Yo
- Don Season 2 — Don Q
- Grow God — Money Man
- Don Talk — Don Q
- N****S Get Shot — Young Dolph
- Rich Hood — HoodRich Pablo Juan
- The Leek 4 — Chief Keef
- Bet On Me — Moneybagg Yo
- YBN: The Mixtape — YBN Almighty Jay, YBN Cordae & YBN Nahmir
- 4Respect — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- 4Loyalty — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Luca Brasi 3 — Kevin Gates
- Role Model — Young Dolph
- Decided — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- Pray For The Wicked — Panic! At the Disco
- 4Respect 4Freedom 4Liberty 4WhatImportant — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
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