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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Jipop Now podcast. If you from the future,
you know what you do show as out of so
disrespect to leg.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Like hip hop and say this today.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Let's get right into the business. Ky, what up y'all?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I am your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop
Now Podcasts, a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught
up on all things hip hop music and culture that
happened throughout the week. But welcome to a sort of
kind of bonus episode.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Uh real.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Quick shout out to those who have been listening on
audio form, whether it's Apple Podcasts or Spotify. I appreciate
you in any other audio podcasting platform you prefer. But
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at YouTube at hip Hop Now Pod trying to get
(01:08):
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if you haven't already, please subscribe today. We are at
twenty one thousand subscribers and climbing slowly now.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But so what still going up? You know ours?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess so what I'd further do. Let's get right
into the business now. At the beginning of the year,
I had all these ideas and I'm not even going
to pretend like they're original ideas, but I think they're
cool ideas that I see other podcasters other people on
(01:49):
YouTube do when it comes to content. And of course
opinions are subjective, just like mine. But I wanted to
every month just tell you, the hip hop fan that's
always kind of got your ear to the street, what's
good was happening in the music, what's dope?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And sometimes at the end of the year, when you
see all these lists, it could be overwhelming for someone
who maybe only has time to listen to one or
two at a time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So releasing a best of the month.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Podcasts or you know, as a part of my podcast
every month was a great idea to me, because that
way you could say, Okay, let me see what was.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Good in January.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Boom bat, I'm gonna go listen to those, and then
by the time we get to the end of February
you might be ready for some more's like, oh well,
let me see if anything hot dropped in February, and
so on and so forth. While with that being said,
if you subscribe to this channel, you listen and watch frequently,
you know, I didn't do that, Okay, A lot of
other opportunities came up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tried a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Like interviews, which I may have another one coming up
for you pretty soon. But I think the best way
to do this ahead of a new year starting in
January is to just recap up until September. That means
January twenty twenty five to September twenty twenty five, of
(03:25):
what were the best albums of those months. Now, I
know kind of contradicts the things where it says, yo,
you know there's still a lot of albums to go
and listen to.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, you listen to what you want, but please.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Believe in each month it is not I'm not gonna
name all the albums that were good or dope, because
in some months, like July, they were a lot. So
I'm gonna pick what I thought was the best from
each month and hang in there with me. I'm not
gonna say much about everything, but I'm gonna say enough.
(03:58):
So let's get started. January twenty twenty five Jim Jones
at the Church Steps, hands down for me, best album
of that month, released in a slow month after the holidays,
but nevertheless a good enough album that it has been
(04:19):
in my Best of the Year category so far.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean we almost over.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So February I Am God and Ill City City of
God did an interview where I Am God. You should
check that out also when you go check the album out.
Davies and Ransom Final Call. That one I was a
little on, but then it grew on me and I
was like, Yo, this is dope. What am I thinking?
Smith and Wesson Infinity probably forgot about that? Right dope album?
(04:51):
And Westside gunn twelve you already know how I feel
about that. March Saba and no Id from the collection
of Saba and no Id Very dope album. DJ Fresh
Late Night Freeway Vibes Part six. I was rocking to
this in February. You could have told me it wasn't
(05:12):
like summertime or something, and maybe the weather had changed
by then, right, because I don't think our February was
that crazy. Nevertheless, very dope album. That's an instrumental album,
by the way. April Lloyd Banks AO and Part three
Very dope for the Boom Back We want Bars? You
(05:33):
got them right there? What's Khalifa Cushion Orange Juice? I
was like so so on this and I kind of
liked it, but over time it's really grown on me.
It's cool, it's dope. I think it's a decent follow
up to the original. Even though I may have reviewed
it in a way that seemed like it wasn't that good,
(05:54):
I thought it was cool for what it was. And again,
even when I review album, sometimes you know, time passes
and I go back and I say, let me give
you another listen, And now it's not new, and I'm
hearing things maybe I haven't heard in the previous three listens, right,
But nevertheless, sometimes it's bees like that with music. Sometimes
(06:18):
you go back and be like, now, I messed with this.
This is cool. Not one of the best of the
year to me, but cool. Also in April, Fly Anakin
The Forever Dream.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I didn't listen to this INNA because I didn't know
it was out. I might have heard it in the summertime.
I saw somebody else. Matter of fact, when the best
when everybody started putting out their best of twenty twenty
five so far, and I watched a couple of videos
and I saw this album pop up by fly Anakin,
(06:51):
and I was like, I kind of like the way
they talking about it. I'm not the biggest fan of
that dude, but let me check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's good, and I'm mad I didn't really get to
it until the summer, but hey, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
May of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Master Killer Balance another album that in May I did
not listen to. I might have listened to this in August, No, lie,
and I just when I heard it, I was like wow.
In April, I think the Wool dropped that album and
I thought it was okay. But as you can see,
I haven't mentioned it because there's no desire to go
(07:32):
back to It's just better music out, including Master Killer's Balance.
Master Killer's album Balance sounds like what the Wool album
should have sounded like. And I don't even hate that
Wool album. It's just I think this is better one
hundred Grand Royce. It's Personal Part two, very dope album.
(07:56):
Bars the beats. He's excellent beat picker, like he knows,
first of all, he knows how to choose dope beats,
but also he knows how to rap over them joints.
And it's almost like how Rick Ross right, Rick Ross
will have some of the dopest beats, even if you
feel like he might be saying the same thing it
(08:16):
doesn't matter. He knows what he's doing when he's rapping
to those beats. So same thing for one hundred grand
Royce here. Also it may exhibit Kingmaker Very Dope album
June Davies and Young Chris Fine dining.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
This is the only thing I have down for June.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I probably listened to it the entire month they put
out a deluxe. I was like this, this fits this album.
I like this collaboration better than Davi's and Ransom, And
you know, Ransom is crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
With the bars.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But what I like about this versus that collaboration, this
collaboration with Young Chris. It's still got some rapping, It's
still got some bars, but it's like real cool, you
know what I'm saying, Like when I mean cool, like
I'm talking like phone tap cool, you know, more money more.
I'm not saying they nas and AZ, but they sound
(09:15):
good as a group. I think they sound more balanced,
whereas Ransom and Davi's can sound like extremely monotone because
their flows, really their flows and the inflection and their
voices never really change. So it feels more like they
just taking turn rapping even if you like it, right,
because I like it something about the Young Chris project
(09:40):
just is more of my speed as far as my
listening experience.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And then also it was June.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They might've got warm outside and the music just fit
like the oh I could put the T shirt on,
y'all and come outside. So pause if that needed a post.
But you know, I'm saying that's what I'm talking about.
So July July is crazy. Freddy Gibbs and Alchemist Alfredo too.
(10:08):
I'm not gonna hold y'all. I wasn't the I'm a
huge Freddy Gibbs and Alchemist fan, but I wasn't the
biggest fan of Alfredo. I felt like it took away
from Freddy Gibbs a little bit because of you know,
he's like he's pure energy when he rapping, and the
Beasts was just kind of real dreary. This one, though,
(10:30):
Part two is dope. Is it gonna be my top five?
Is definitely gonna be a part of my best in
the year.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Top five but got a lot of spins, continues to
get a lot of spins. The clips like God sought
them out. Look here, I'm look. I already don't call
the album a classic. Already I've been listening to it
months in a row, like even with new albums dropping
that I like a lot, Like Mob Deep.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'm listening to Mob Deep all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But when I'm like, all right, let me get that
album a rest, start hearing, you know, the birds don't
Sing playing in my head and that press play and
it's like a rollercoaster that you can't get off. And
it's just that album's just dope. So also in July,
ray Kon's The Empress Closed. I like this album a
(11:23):
lot from ray Kon. In the beginning, it was just like, oh,
it was cool, But over time it's also kind of
grown on me. You know, I found myself listening to
a lot, even though those skits I skip them. But again,
if you like ray Kwon, you like his style of rapping,
you like hearing him on Salts with Knives and ghost
(11:45):
Face and method Man, to name a few, you should
check this album out. I think it's pretty dope. August
Jid God Does Like Ugly a surprise album.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I've known about Jid since he came to the rap scene.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Always thought he was nice, but I was never really
interested enough to, you know, like listen, not only listen
to his albums, but Wonderlight one is he dropping another one?
You know, I didn't really care most of the time,
and sometimes when I saw that he was dropping an album,
I wouldn't even go listen. But I was hearing so
much leading up to this album that I was like,
(12:25):
this album might be crazy, and it is.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
July was crazy, y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, well, July was crazy, but following up July
with August was even crazy. Or because also on that
list it's Westside Gun, Hills Have Eyes Too. Hills Have
Eyes one was ep and barely that. The beats were dope,
but you were getting like one verse per song from
(12:53):
Westside Gun and it was just forgettable. Hills Have Eyes
Too gives West Side Guns twelve, which I think is
one of the best of the year top five, a
run for its money. West Side Gun got too, y'all
in the same year. To me, that are dope and
(13:14):
worth checking out. Shaye now the other and the other
guys no validation. She released a couple of projects. This
is the one, This is the one you should listen to.
Thank me later, ghost Face Killer, Supreme Clientele too. Even
though I am not a fan of Gruff, voice ghost Face,
(13:35):
and you don't get only gruff voice ghost Face, but
you get some older tracks too that give you that
old ghost vibe. As far as voice quality, it's a
good album. It's a decent follow up. It's not a
classic to me, but it's it's ghost Face and it's
not what was that joint set the tone. It's not
(13:58):
that where you know, you get one half of some
of the ghosts you remember, and then you get like
experimental wrap for the kids over this beating that nah.
This This is pure ghost Face personality in every record,
in every skit, which most of these skits are not
skippable because they're also funny. I thought it was a
(14:19):
dope album. I could see a lot of people having
this in their best of the years. So also August
is stacked, y'all. Also in August, couldn't leave out low
Blow and what vern try a sample again. I didn't
even hear this in August. I might have heard this
in late September into October, and I'm glad I did
(14:42):
because when I heard the GZ and Drama mixtape or
album they put out where Jezi's rapping over all these
eighties soul beats, I thought some were cool, but for
the most part they were just gathering so like looping
them and he was just wrap over him. But on
(15:04):
trya sample by low blowing what a vern It's familiar,
it's the same, it's the same formula, but production wise,
they transformed the sound of the beats to be more
of a hip hop track. It almost feels like like
the original right now.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, when I say that, I don't mean like the
original record.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Like no, like the hip hop beat sounds like it's
an original beat with no samples, and then you hear
the familiar you know loop where you're like, oh, you know,
ain't no stopping us now. But it's done with such
a nets that I just thought it was very dope
project worth mentioning. And lastly in September, and I'm not
(15:53):
going to do October because it's not over yet.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Right, but I know what's on there.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I want to give it you out to Currency nine
to fifteen now Currency. Within the last couple of weeks
is probably least four or five projects that had dates
dating all the way back to July, because he did
a July joint. I think he did August joint. Obvious
September but he might have done two. He might have
(16:24):
done two in July and two in August and then
this one in September, and maybe there's another one coming
in October. But the joint from September is the one.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All the other records were cool, typical, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Currency nine to fifteen is the one where I feel
like that was a that was a bag. Like if
he didn't do all of these projects related to dates
and he just did that one, I think that would
be enough because it opens with a every dope record
and it's consistent throughout. It's not long, they're more so
(17:04):
EPs and albums, but you should definitely check it out
if you're a Currency fans.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You've gotten the best albums that I could think of
for each month in twenty twenty five. So that means
starting with the end of October, I will do it
straight up October list, and then in novemberless and then
in December I will do my best of the year.
(17:35):
So what are some of the best albums released throughout
this year?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
To you? Did I leave something off that you're like? Yo?
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Welcome to Jipop Now podcast. If you from the future,
you know what you do show as out of so
disrespect to leg.
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Like hip hop and say this today.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Let's get right into the business. Ky, what up y'all?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I am your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop
Now Podcasts, a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught
up on all things hip hop music and culture that
happened throughout the week. But welcome to a sort of
kind of bonus episode.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Uh real.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Quick shout out to those who have been listening on
audio form, whether it's Apple Podcasts or Spotify. I appreciate
you in any other audio podcasting platform you prefer. But
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Speaker 1 (01:21):
But so what still going up? You know ours?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I guess so what I'd further do. Let's get right
into the business now. At the beginning of the year,
I had all these ideas and I'm not even going
to pretend like they're original ideas, but I think they're
cool ideas that I see other podcasters other people on
(01:49):
YouTube do when it comes to content. And of course
opinions are subjective, just like mine. But I wanted to
every month just tell you, the hip hop fan that's
always kind of got your ear to the street, what's
good was happening in the music, what's dope?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And sometimes at the end of the year, when you
see all these lists, it could be overwhelming for someone
who maybe only has time to listen to one or
two at a time.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So releasing a best of the month.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Podcasts or you know, as a part of my podcast
every month was a great idea to me, because that
way you could say, Okay, let me see what was.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Good in January.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Boom bat, I'm gonna go listen to those, and then
by the time we get to the end of February
you might be ready for some more's like, oh well,
let me see if anything hot dropped in February, and
so on and so forth. While with that being said,
if you subscribe to this channel, you listen and watch frequently,
you know, I didn't do that, Okay, A lot of
other opportunities came up.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tried a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Like interviews, which I may have another one coming up
for you pretty soon. But I think the best way
to do this ahead of a new year starting in
January is to just recap up until September. That means
January twenty twenty five to September twenty twenty five, of
(03:25):
what were the best albums of those months. Now, I
know kind of contradicts the things where it says, yo,
you know there's still a lot of albums to go
and listen to.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well, you listen to what you want, but please.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Believe in each month it is not I'm not gonna
name all the albums that were good or dope, because
in some months, like July, they were a lot. So
I'm gonna pick what I thought was the best from
each month and hang in there with me. I'm not
gonna say much about everything, but I'm gonna say enough.
(03:58):
So let's get started. January twenty twenty five Jim Jones
at the Church Steps, hands down for me, best album
of that month, released in a slow month after the holidays,
but nevertheless a good enough album that it has been
(04:19):
in my Best of the Year category so far.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean we almost over.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So February I Am God and Ill City City of
God did an interview where I Am God. You should
check that out also when you go check the album out.
Davies and Ransom Final Call. That one I was a
little on, but then it grew on me and I
was like, Yo, this is dope. What am I thinking?
Smith and Wesson Infinity probably forgot about that? Right dope album?
(04:51):
And Westside gunn twelve you already know how I feel
about that. March Saba and no Id from the collection
of Saba and no Id Very dope album. DJ Fresh
Late Night Freeway Vibes Part six. I was rocking to
this in February. You could have told me it wasn't
(05:12):
like summertime or something, and maybe the weather had changed
by then, right, because I don't think our February was
that crazy. Nevertheless, very dope album. That's an instrumental album,
by the way. April Lloyd Banks AO and Part three
Very dope for the Boom Back We want Bars? You
(05:33):
got them right there? What's Khalifa Cushion Orange Juice? I
was like so so on this and I kind of
liked it, but over time it's really grown on me.
It's cool, it's dope. I think it's a decent follow
up to the original. Even though I may have reviewed
it in a way that seemed like it wasn't that good,
(05:54):
I thought it was cool for what it was. And again,
even when I review album, sometimes you know, time passes
and I go back and I say, let me give
you another listen, And now it's not new, and I'm
hearing things maybe I haven't heard in the previous three listens, right,
But nevertheless, sometimes it's bees like that with music. Sometimes
(06:18):
you go back and be like, now, I messed with this.
This is cool. Not one of the best of the
year to me, but cool. Also in April, Fly Anakin
The Forever Dream.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I didn't listen to this INNA because I didn't know
it was out. I might have heard it in the summertime.
I saw somebody else. Matter of fact, when the best
when everybody started putting out their best of twenty twenty
five so far, and I watched a couple of videos
and I saw this album pop up by fly Anakin,
(06:51):
and I was like, I kind of like the way
they talking about it. I'm not the biggest fan of
that dude, but let me check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's good, and I'm mad I didn't really get to
it until the summer, but hey, there you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
May of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Master Killer Balance another album that in May I did
not listen to. I might have listened to this in August, No, lie,
and I just when I heard it, I was like wow.
In April, I think the Wool dropped that album and
I thought it was okay. But as you can see,
I haven't mentioned it because there's no desire to go
(07:32):
back to It's just better music out, including Master Killer's Balance.
Master Killer's album Balance sounds like what the Wool album
should have sounded like. And I don't even hate that
Wool album. It's just I think this is better one
hundred Grand Royce. It's Personal Part two, very dope album.
(07:56):
Bars the beats. He's excellent beat picker, like he knows,
first of all, he knows how to choose dope beats,
but also he knows how to rap over them joints.
And it's almost like how Rick Ross right, Rick Ross
will have some of the dopest beats, even if you
feel like he might be saying the same thing it
(08:16):
doesn't matter. He knows what he's doing when he's rapping
to those beats. So same thing for one hundred grand
Royce here. Also it may exhibit Kingmaker Very Dope album
June Davies and Young Chris Fine dining.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
This is the only thing I have down for June.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I probably listened to it the entire month they put
out a deluxe. I was like this, this fits this album.
I like this collaboration better than Davi's and Ransom, And
you know, Ransom is crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
With the bars.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But what I like about this versus that collaboration, this
collaboration with Young Chris. It's still got some rapping, It's
still got some bars, but it's like real cool, you
know what I'm saying, Like when I mean cool, like
I'm talking like phone tap cool, you know, more money more.
I'm not saying they nas and AZ, but they sound
(09:15):
good as a group. I think they sound more balanced,
whereas Ransom and Davi's can sound like extremely monotone because
their flows, really their flows and the inflection and their
voices never really change. So it feels more like they
just taking turn rapping even if you like it, right,
because I like it something about the Young Chris project
(09:40):
just is more of my speed as far as my
listening experience.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And then also it was June.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They might've got warm outside and the music just fit
like the oh I could put the T shirt on,
y'all and come outside. So pause if that needed a post.
But you know, I'm saying that's what I'm talking about.
So July July is crazy. Freddy Gibbs and Alchemist Alfredo too.
(10:08):
I'm not gonna hold y'all. I wasn't the I'm a
huge Freddy Gibbs and Alchemist fan, but I wasn't the
biggest fan of Alfredo. I felt like it took away
from Freddy Gibbs a little bit because of you know,
he's like he's pure energy when he rapping, and the
Beasts was just kind of real dreary. This one, though,
(10:30):
Part two is dope. Is it gonna be my top five?
Is definitely gonna be a part of my best in
the year.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Top five but got a lot of spins, continues to
get a lot of spins. The clips like God sought
them out. Look here, I'm look. I already don't call
the album a classic. Already I've been listening to it
months in a row, like even with new albums dropping
that I like a lot, Like Mob Deep.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'm listening to Mob Deep all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But when I'm like, all right, let me get that
album a rest, start hearing, you know, the birds don't
Sing playing in my head and that press play and
it's like a rollercoaster that you can't get off. And
it's just that album's just dope. So also in July,
ray Kon's The Empress Closed. I like this album a
(11:23):
lot from ray Kon. In the beginning, it was just like, oh,
it was cool, But over time it's also kind of
grown on me. You know, I found myself listening to
a lot, even though those skits I skip them. But again,
if you like ray Kwon, you like his style of rapping,
you like hearing him on Salts with Knives and ghost
(11:45):
Face and method Man, to name a few, you should
check this album out. I think it's pretty dope. August
Jid God Does Like Ugly a surprise album.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I've known about Jid since he came to the rap scene.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Always thought he was nice, but I was never really
interested enough to, you know, like listen, not only listen
to his albums, but Wonderlight one is he dropping another one?
You know, I didn't really care most of the time,
and sometimes when I saw that he was dropping an album,
I wouldn't even go listen. But I was hearing so
much leading up to this album that I was like,
(12:25):
this album might be crazy, and it is.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
July was crazy, y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, well, July was crazy, but following up July
with August was even crazy. Or because also on that
list it's Westside Gun, Hills Have Eyes Too. Hills Have
Eyes one was ep and barely that. The beats were dope,
but you were getting like one verse per song from
(12:53):
Westside Gun and it was just forgettable. Hills Have Eyes
Too gives West Side Guns twelve, which I think is
one of the best of the year top five, a
run for its money. West Side Gun got too, y'all
in the same year. To me, that are dope and
(13:14):
worth checking out. Shaye now the other and the other
guys no validation. She released a couple of projects. This
is the one, This is the one you should listen to.
Thank me later, ghost Face Killer, Supreme Clientele too. Even
though I am not a fan of Gruff, voice ghost Face,
(13:35):
and you don't get only gruff voice ghost Face, but
you get some older tracks too that give you that
old ghost vibe. As far as voice quality, it's a
good album. It's a decent follow up. It's not a
classic to me, but it's it's ghost Face and it's
not what was that joint set the tone. It's not
(13:58):
that where you know, you get one half of some
of the ghosts you remember, and then you get like
experimental wrap for the kids over this beating that nah.
This This is pure ghost Face personality in every record,
in every skit, which most of these skits are not
skippable because they're also funny. I thought it was a
(14:19):
dope album. I could see a lot of people having
this in their best of the years. So also August
is stacked, y'all. Also in August, couldn't leave out low
Blow and what vern try a sample again. I didn't
even hear this in August. I might have heard this
in late September into October, and I'm glad I did
(14:42):
because when I heard the GZ and Drama mixtape or
album they put out where Jezi's rapping over all these
eighties soul beats, I thought some were cool, but for
the most part they were just gathering so like looping
them and he was just wrap over him. But on
(15:04):
trya sample by low blowing what a vern It's familiar,
it's the same, it's the same formula, but production wise,
they transformed the sound of the beats to be more
of a hip hop track. It almost feels like like
the original right now.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, when I say that, I don't mean like the
original record.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Like no, like the hip hop beat sounds like it's
an original beat with no samples, and then you hear
the familiar you know loop where you're like, oh, you know,
ain't no stopping us now. But it's done with such
a nets that I just thought it was very dope
project worth mentioning. And lastly in September, and I'm not
(15:53):
going to do October because it's not over yet.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Right, but I know what's on there.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I want to give it you out to Currency nine
to fifteen now Currency. Within the last couple of weeks
is probably least four or five projects that had dates
dating all the way back to July, because he did
a July joint. I think he did August joint. Obvious
September but he might have done two. He might have
(16:24):
done two in July and two in August and then
this one in September, and maybe there's another one coming
in October. But the joint from September is the one.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All the other records were cool, typical, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Currency nine to fifteen is the one where I feel
like that was a that was a bag. Like if
he didn't do all of these projects related to dates
and he just did that one, I think that would
be enough because it opens with a every dope record
and it's consistent throughout. It's not long, they're more so
(17:04):
EPs and albums, but you should definitely check it out
if you're a Currency fans.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You've gotten the best albums that I could think of
for each month in twenty twenty five. So that means
starting with the end of October, I will do it
straight up October list, and then in novemberless and then
in December I will do my best of the year.
(17:35):
So what are some of the best albums released throughout
this year?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
To you? Did I leave something off that you're like? Yo?
You should?
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