With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bone-crushingly cold at depth. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer and the result is extraordinary. This is what the blurb says about the album: “Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend The Alchemist. ELUCID had a good year as well, with the excellent Don’t Play It Straight, an experimental collaborative project with The Lasso.Īnd now we have Haram – for which Armand Hammer hooked up with producer extraordinaire The Alchemist. Both Shrines and BRASS rank high on our best of 2020 list. The 2020s started off strong for him too – with Armand Hammer’s 2020 album Shrines, and BRASS, billy woods’ collaboration with experimental musician and poet Moor Mother. He has five solo albums on our top 150 Hip Hop albums of the 2010s list – History Will Absolve Me (2012), Dour Candy (2013), Today, I Wrote Nothing (2015), Known Unknowns (2017), and Hiding Places (2019), along with three Armand Hammer albums – Race Music (2013), Rome (2017), and Paraffin (2018) – making billy woods our MVP of the 2010s. billy woods is one of the most consistent artists in contemporary Hip Hop. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is one of the better Hip Hop albums released in the last five years, a future classic without a doubt.Īrmand Hammer is a duo consisting of experimental Hip Hop titans billy woods and ELUCID. This is a phenomenal album, the kind of album you will want to replay the moment you finish it. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert echoes Lauryn Hill’s masterpiece The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998) in ambition, scope, musicality, and timelessness – there can be no higher praise. Even the interludes work and add value to the album, which is unusual. “Introvert”, “Woman”, “Little Q, Pt 2”, “Two Worlds Apart”, “Speed”, “Standing Ovation”, “I See You”, “Rollin Stone”, “Point and Kill”, “How Did You Get Here”, “Miss Understood”, and especially the symphonic “I Love You I Hate You” – nothing but stand-outs on Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. So many different influences crammed into one record resulting in an entirely cohesive package: this is an album unlike any other. Production on Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is virtually flawless – straddling numerous genres from hard-hitting Hip Hop to R&B-and neo-soul, to Afro-beat and even synth-funk, going from orchestral and bombastic to smooth and laid-back seamlessly. The album’s 19 tracks are sequenced perfectly – picking “Introvert” as the album opener was cleverly done, as it sets the whole thematic and philosophical scene of what Little Simz set out to do with this record. With a runtime of 65 minutes Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is not a second too long – Little Simz effortlessly manages to captivate from start to finish with her superior flow and personable lyricism, dealing with topics such as race, womanhood, self-esteem, and family. It’s an album to listen to over and over again, an album that will easily survive today’s short hype circles, an album people will have on rotation for years and years to come. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is an astounding album, absolutely Little Simz’s magnum opus. Now she’s back with her fourth full-length studio album: Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvertīritish-Nigerian emcee Little Simz had one of our favorite albums released in 2019 with the punchy GREY AREA – her third LP and international breakthrough project. Let’s get into it, check out what we think are the best Hip Hop albums of 2021.Īlso check: Greatest Hip Hop Albums 1980 – 2021 & Top 250 Hip Hop Albums Of All Timeġ. This is a top 60, albums that don’t make the best 60 of the year but which are worth listening to anyway are mentioned in the honorable mentions – January – June, and July – December. But having said that, lots of dope EP’s drop each and every year, so we will not ignore them – scroll down for a section with some of the best EP’s released in 2021, as well as a listing of 2021’s best instrumental and best Hip Hop adjacent projects. Some artists bill barely 30-minute-long projects as albums – HHGA categorizes projects that clock in at under 30 minutes as EP’s however, and we do not rank them on our album list: an album = an LP. As always on our best of the year lists, not included are instrumental albums, compilations, and EP’s. Hip Hop has never been as diverse as it is now – and 2021 turned out to be just as stacked with quality Hip Hop releases as 2020 was. The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2021: 2020 was a terrible year in general, but a great year for Hip Hop.

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