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HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

TOP FREE ALBUMS RELEASED THUS FAR
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Sounds like-Heem’s getting back to his roots, humorous and satirical raps over Indian influenced boom-bap.

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Sounds Like- The pure rhyming aesthetics of say an Illmatic combined with a modern multi- coastal freshness

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Sounds Like – Lupe Fiasco

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Sounds Like – The trillness of your favorite southern gangsta rappers mixed with the intensity of an east-coast killa.

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Sounds Like – Future Garage-Rap/Post-Rap, the hippest yet least cheesy model of where rap seems to be headed

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Sounds Like – J. Cole if he grew up in the streets of New York

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Bonus Video: Needledrop Review
Sounds Like – To say he sounds like Pimp C is to downplay his profound introspection and ability to conjure empathy, plus his music is much smoother.

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Sounds Like – A top tier flower letting loose over raw beats with a spontaneity reminiscent of Asher Roth in Foie Gras

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Sounds Like – A Caucasian rapper, simultaneously self-aware, and yet braggadocios enough to be a heyday Dipset member.

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Sounds Like – Two of the best modern-day spitters rapping over soulful 9th Wonder production, it’s only this far down to avoid stannery claims.

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Sounds Like – A smoother, less gimmicky, more explicit version of XV

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Sounds Like – A hybrid between Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle.

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Sounds Like – Hodgy Beats on rapid fire over Alchemist production, which is some of the best of the year

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Sounds Like – Inspirational and motivational boom-bap

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Sounds Like – Excessively explicit, grimey ass raps over gritty inventive lo-fi beats.

TOP ALBUMS RELEASED THUS FAR
1.

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Sounds Like –A more self-aware debut album era 50-cent

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Sounds Like – A boom bap legend imitating kung-fu legends, subbing the punches and kicks for murderous bars.

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Sounds Like – DJ Premier-esque beats featuring the few surviving ambassadors of boom-bap

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Sounds Like – A compilation featuring the best underground rappers and producers you’ve been sleeping on

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Sounds Like – A lost classic made in the dungeons of NY back in the mid-90s

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Sounds like-An outcast early Three 6 Mafia member harbors a grudge that sends him to an even darker, yet equally trill space.

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Sounds Like – Early XV drops the nerdy gimmicky and focuses more on grittier introspection.

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Crew Love Bonus
Sounds like Flying Lotus takes Araabmuzik under his wing and teaches him everything he knows about music.
BONUS: Melo-X releases free compilation for the cheapskapes featuring the sickest Crew Love mix

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Sounds Like – Lee Bannon gets self indulgent and goes for broke on this experimental excursion, think left-field Peanut Butter Wolf.

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Sounds like – Neo-Soul Rap

ALBUMS FROM 2011 EVERYONE SLEPT ON
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Sounds Like- A modern day Soul-rap classic that I’ll hype until the world ends.

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Sounds Like – Possibly the best rap record that only one or two people listened to last year, it’s introspective boom-bap.

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Bonus Video – Needle Drop Review
Sounds Like – NOTHING ELSE, Afro-experimental hop

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Sounds Like- Dare I say Blueprint-era Jigga with a grimier delivery

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Sounds Like- Weed rappers with A Tribe Called Quest sensibilities

Macca · Apr 11, 2012

HiRes, I like you man... but damn. KRIT at 7?

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Hahaha, don't act like you haven't made some questionable picks in the past

Devil Theory · Apr 11, 2012

KRIT forever.

Onemic · Apr 11, 2012

Future garage rap? Interested.

PBY · Apr 11, 2012

Just like that, everything is back to normal

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Just ignore my odd urge to post everything in lists. KRIT is lucky to grace da god's list anyway, na mean. Dis shit was written on papyrus and sent down through cherubs by da god, na mean.

Syph Medwes · Apr 11, 2012

Also, 4eva N a Day was too sick.

EDIT: Agree with H&C at #1 though.

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Wasn't feeling that too much, though I've liked his work in the past. The one big omission that I regretfully omitted was E-40s album, which I am still working my way through. OH SHIT!...And Action's Bronson mixtape, edit incoming!

Syph Medwes · Apr 11, 2012

HiResDes said:
Wasn't feeling that too much, though I've liked his work in the past.

Really? I was honestly just happy to hear something new from him. I really like the final track though.

PBY · Apr 11, 2012

My only recommendation:

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

: )...It'll be in the next one

Discotheque · Apr 11, 2012

ScHoolboy Q right where he belongs.

iavi · Apr 11, 2012

Des, the link to Nightmare on E Street is broken. Says it's unavailable on Datpiff.

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Miri said:
Des, the link to Nightmare on E Street is broken. Says it's unavailable on Datpiff.

Damn thanks, that was a ninja like find, fixed.

SoilBreak · Apr 11, 2012

YES @ Schoolboy being #1

Premier Politics 1.5 - Sir Michael Rocks

Children Of The Night - Queens... Revisited

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Oh shit, thanks, didn't have the new COTN, really liked both YES/No and Where the Wild Things Are...Good looks

Tokubetsu · Apr 11, 2012

Deniro Farrar's DESTINY.Altered is second only to Habits N Contradictions for most played rap album to drop this year so far. It's great. Like HiRes says, he manages to not be cheesey like a lot of the other bandcamp/cloud rappers tend to be. There is something almost heartbreaking about almost everything things he raps about. Life-kinda-sucks-but-the-little moments-make-it-okay rap music.

Deniro is also currently tied with Schoolboy Q for best serious/dark-rap intro to an album for 2012:

http://youtu.be/4HmYpbnhDVU

http://youtu.be/oh8LMSJSk0s

ShineALight · Apr 11, 2012

I'm on my phone so I won't make a detailed post, but I've really been into Grief Pedigree by Ka.

CRS · Apr 11, 2012

Welcome back HiRes!

Fuck yes. Will go through this list later this week. Thanks!

Also, +1 on the yU tape! I didn't think anyone else checked it out!

SoilBreak · Apr 11, 2012

Thanks for the recommendation for Deniro's DESTINY.

Neako - LVLZebra

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HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

Word, what a weird transition from The Number 23 for Neako...Still trying to wrap my head around it.

ZROCOOL · Apr 11, 2012

Welcome back mane. And btw nicely done on the OP

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

thanks yo

SoilBreak · Apr 11, 2012

HiResDes said:
Word, what a weird transition from The Number 23 for Neako...Still trying to wrap my head around it.

Thought it was great even though I liked Number 23 better. Their are some good bangers on the mixtape(LVLRATCHET, LVLFLXXXN , and NFS333 Hot Pursuit).

Galang · Apr 11, 2012

I looked up Deniro first... as soon as I saw the future garage tag, but was really skeptical... turned out to be really awesome stuff!! Great OP, I'm sure there's other great stuff here as well!

Acid08 · Apr 11, 2012

Fuck yeah.

This thread is amazing, thanks Res.

Splash Wave · Apr 11, 2012

OP: I love you.

Tokubetsu · Apr 11, 2012

The best thing about this thread...is that more people are listening to Deniro Farrar. Here's a remix him and one of his producers did of a Grimes track...and she approved of it (At least the instrumental):
http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/14/grimes-f-deniro-farrar-genesis-ryan-hemsworth-remix/

Hemsworth also did the excellent cloudy Play No Games:
https://vimeo.com/39723250

and a couple of the trance sampled beats off DESTINY.altered

Another Deniro video:
https://vimeo.com/36168593

Acid08 · Apr 11, 2012

Really looking forward to listening to the Heems tape.

Mayyhem · Apr 11, 2012

GREAT Thread

mileS · Apr 11, 2012

Lute is awesome.

RJT · Apr 11, 2012

Thanks man, you are awesome! I've been missing you're mixtape round-ups, I heard a lot of good shit in the past because of you.

Also, since it's easy to miss it now: there's an awesome GAF-Hop thread in the OT Community forum you should check out. Unless you're alergic to Kanye, lots of GIFs of him there (blame peterb0y). Don't miss it!

CRS · Apr 11, 2012

fuck peterb0y.

LOZLINK · Apr 11, 2012

RJT said:
Thanks man, you are awesome! I've been missing you're mixtape round-ups, I heard a lot of good shit in the past because of you.

Also, since it's easy to miss it now: there's an awesome GAF-Hop thread in the OT Community forum you should check out. Unless you're alergic to Kanye, lots of GIFs of him there (blame peterb0y). Don't miss it!

but....but Hires is a pioneer of that shit nah mean

enzo_gt · Apr 11, 2012

Welcome back HRD. Best part about all this? The "sounds like" section. You did a bit of that before, but it was mostly just opinion on what you thought about it. Good shit, hope you do more of these.

Mattlikewhoa · Apr 11, 2012

I will check out a few albums while working out at the gym. This thread is awesome...

DOBERMAN INC · Apr 11, 2012

Thanks for this, never heard of most of these.
Lute is good shit.

Nitsuj23 · Apr 11, 2012

Best list since big ghostface's top 20 of last year. Thanks brotha

cdyhybrid · Apr 11, 2012

KRIT should be higher!

/biased

edornob · Apr 11, 2012

WOULD

JCtheMC · Apr 11, 2012

Welp, sounds like there´s nothing i´m really missing out on. Which makes me happy and sad at the same time.

HiResDes · Apr 11, 2012

JCtheMC said:
Welp, sounds like there´s nothing i´m really missing out on. Which makes me happy and sad at the same time.

I can't possibly listen to everything, so there's still hope for you if you can't find anything here, though I must say I believe my tastes are fairly varied. I kind of feel as though if you can't find even one thing that you like here that maybe you don't like the genre at all.

MorisUkunRasik · Apr 12, 2012

Downloading all those mixtapes as I type.

Thanks res.

TheKaeptain · Apr 12, 2012

DES! Seriously it is great to have you back.

The Return of · Apr 12, 2012

welcome back hires

. Going to check out that yU earn and the erykah badu(I think people skipped this one mainly because her name was attached to it lol)

Complex Shadow · Apr 12, 2012

Man I can't wait for after exams to have a crack at these tapes.

Coal · Apr 12, 2012

Every single time I come into a music thread at GAF, I expect to find a bunch of shit that I've never heard of that sounds like shit when I listen to it.

This thread delivers!!! 5 Star would read again!!!

HiResDes · Apr 12, 2012

Updated slightly, missed the latest Actual Proof released last month somehow.

Discotheque · Apr 12, 2012

Thank you HiRes and Toku for Deniro Farrar. That shit is dope.

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