Every online hip-hop blog was going crazy over Kevin Abstract’s boy band. The collective Brockhampton consisting of too many members for me to name made a huge impact this year. Favorite track is “Hymnal” because that hook is hella catchy and Sammus gives a dope feature that warrants an investigation into her discography. He made a timeless album about something important and bothered to make it catchy and fun to listen to even if you aren’t fully paying attention to the lyrics on further listens. But Mike constructed something more than that. It’s not the most poppin’ album of the year you probably won’t be playing it at the club. BBKSD requires thoughtful listening to understand its themes of gentrification, poverty, structural racism, etc.
For this reason, I recommend either having the lyrics in front of you to read as you listen or otherwise pay attention and stop playing Overwatch with this album in the background. Right from the jump, Mike comes in with his signature smooth sing-talk voice and lulls you into this vibe which asks you listen to what he’s saying but doesn’t hit you over the head and demand it. I don’t know if I just wasn’t in the right mindset when I first heard it or what but something clicked when I gave it another listen. Cut to a month later and I’m on Twitter and Open Mike Eagle is tweeting about this album so I figure I’ll give it another listen and HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS, this album is ridiculously good. I mean look, it was a busy time and I just kind of gave it a quick listen and thought, ‘that was chill’ and never really returned to it. I’ll be honest when this album first came out I did not dig it all that much. Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream It makes me think of lost loves and floating through sun-kissed clouds on a breezy summer day. I hum it when I drive and forget to put on music. Kali Uchis)” because how could it not be? I can’t listen to it once without playing it over and over and attempting to sing the Kali Uchis part all day. My favorite track is “See You Again (feat. The production ranges from ‘dope as fuck’ to ‘fucking dope as shit’ with some ‘holy fuck these strings’ mixed in there.
Right off the bat some of you are going to be like, “Hey this should be way higher!” and in response I’ll be like, “It’s just my opinion man calm down.” and then we’ll get along because we discover a similar taste in music and then we slowly drift apart due to life progression and a nasty habit for ghosting acquaintances you picked up in college. Tyler, The Creator – Scum Fuck Flower Boy LET’S FUCKING GO (*extremely Big Quint voice*) 10. Ok nobody is reading this shit anyways so let’s just dive right in. This year I’ve decided to do the same, but I will at least try to expand the radius of my incessant need to force my opinion down the throats of others. There was worth there in being aware of everything that was going on while I was in the studio."Ĭopyright © 2017, ABC Radio.For the last few years I have begun the practice of culling together a list of my favorite hip-hop albums of that year and mass sending this list out to my long-suffering friends and family. "I just had to start realizing I gotta start doing things sober. I literally finished probably the last seven songs on my album sober," he says. So, early in my career, I attached drinking with having fun, and then being out, then being in the studio, and then having lunch, and then having breakfast, and then I'm at home by myself and then I'm just drinking." also is taking on life sober, which not only changed his outlook on life, but also his work ethic. "I see what's going on in the world and sometimes I'm extremely scared and I don't know what's gonna happen and I'm waking up like, 'What am I supposed to be doing?' I've always been on that page, but I just think now the narrative is I don't mind talking about it," he adds. Or 'Children of the World' and the space I was in when I wrote it, "K.R.I.T. Or the question never came up about a record like 'The Vent' and the space I was in when I wrote it. "I just think when it came time to doing interviews, we never talked about it. The reason he says is because he's finally comfortable with talking about his struggles with anxiety and depression. Artwork by Tony Whlgn Photography by Joshua Kissiīig K.R.I.T.'s new album, 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time, arrived last week, three years after 2014's Cadillactica, and the rapper ABC Radio, his latest studio effort is his most ambitious to date.