1. bbno$ - “damn” (lzr)
the first time i heard this i was in a korean club and literally had a heart attack because i was trying to shazam it but my shazam app kept telling me i didn’t have wi-fi (even though i had wi-fi) but it’s all good cause i got it and played no songs other than this, “t-shirt” by migos and a k-pop song for a full week
2. Key! & Reese LaFlare - “Money Phone” feat. Offset (Bobby Kritical & Kc Da Beatmonster)
key! is probably the worst rapper on this song, which is telling
3. SwagHollywood - “I Can’t” feat. ThouxanBandFauni & Uno the Activist (K-naan)
i wish i got cheese like i work for digiornos
4. Kap G - “Freakin’ N Geekin’” (Go Grizzly)
wonderfully manic (1:25-1:31)
5. PnB Rock - “There She Go” feat. YFN Lucci (Bizzy Genius)
smoothest transitions in-out of hooks this side of 2017
6. Tory Lanez - “Bal Harbour” feat. A$AP Ferg (C-Sick)
every time tory lanez puts out a project i really don’t want to like it, and generally don’t like it, but there’s always one song that gets me. last year off the first installment of this tape it was “makaveli” and this time it’s this one. this is the first tory lanez song i’ve listened to in a very long time that wouldn’t be better if travis scott or quavo or rich homie quan rapped it.
7. Migos - “Deadz” feat. 2 Chainz (Cardo)
it took a long time for me to get through my first listen of culture because i kept running back the 2 chainz verse
8. ThouxanBanFauni - “Damned”
ominous af
9. Tunji Ige - “Why Don’t You?” (Heaven in Stereo & Tunji Ige)
i’ve been screaming this for two years plus but this dude is like the best musician on the planet man
10. Ethereal - “How’d It Happen” feat. Lil Yachty & Lord Narf
on the lowest of keys ethereal probably the best awful-associated act besides abra
11. LAMB$ - “Another Day” feat. Playboi Carti (Plugs)
when the carti tape drops and it’s inevitably horrifying i will always, always have this
12. SALEM - “Ur Feelings” feat. Nabi
this is amazing, probably
13. Kay P - “Blood Flow Down My Wrist” (Charlie Shuffler)
this song is devastating. “hedonism as a means of escaping pain” is a pretty common paradigm in hip-hop as it is, especially in the wake of 2014 future, but despite the sheer number of people who get sucked into it it’s still gripping for me – especially when you get songs like this, from rappers who push that dynamic to farther extremes against more bizarre backdrops.
14. GrandeMarshall - “Stress” (GrandeMarshall)
where has this been
15. Wintertime & Felix Snow - “Louis V. Lover” (Felix Snow)
felix snow is my jesus
16. Sampha - “Plastic 100°C”
heartrending, like everything else he’s ever touched
17. Chris McClenney - “Headlines” (Chris McClenney)
WOOOOOOOO
18. The xx - “Replica” (The xx)
geniuses, all of them
19. Jonwayne - “Out of Sight” (Jonwayne)
bedtime raps 2017, a movement i have always been and will always be here for
20. Maxo Kream - “Grannies” (Beatplugg)
hide your flows maxo kream is coming