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HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

TOP FREE ALBUMS RELEASED
1.

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Sounds Like – The smoothest rapper and the possibly the smoothest beat maker collide to make a Vice City-esque sounding mini-album

2.

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Sounds Like – It's as much pop and soul as it is a hip-hop album, like if Prince tried to spit a couple of bars amidst his usual affair.

3.

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Sounds like - Ignorant swagtastic ratchet shit with a strong wrestling Flair

4.

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Sounds like - down-tempo OG pimpology

5.

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Sounds Like – Downtempo NY boom bap with a revivalist flair

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Sounds Like – Conscious, melodic hip-hop with soul

7.

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Sounds Like – Personal and introspective hip-hop with imaginative and melodic beats

8.

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Sounds Like- Ignorant car banging trap rap that also dabbles hard in swaggery at times

9.

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Sounds Like – West-coast chilled out evening hip-hop that is somewhat purist in form

10.

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Sounds Like – A top-tier thug rapper branching out over melodic beats showing his range with swaggerisms and storytelling

11.

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Sounds Like – Earth shattering beats with the most extravagant samples coupled with a decent down-tempo non-offensive rapper

12.

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Sounds Like – A humorous jaded rapper airs his feelings over some smooth beats to ease the pain

13.

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Sounds Like – Smooth, chilled out whip music/swag stuff

14.

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Sounds Like – An underrated producer pairs conscious rappers with his evolved take on west-coast boom bap

15.

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Sounds Like – More downtempo swag with a somewhat lazy charm

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HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

TOP ALBUMS RELEASED
1.

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Sounds Like –A russian influenced concept album

2.

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Sounds Like – Super soulful, super smooth beats couple with an abstract thinking rapper

3.

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Sounds Like – Grimy mid-western thug rapper experiments with southern-fried rap

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Sounds Like – A really high-octane conscious boom bap rapper, high tier rappity rap

5.

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Sounds like – A broken-hearted grabs the mic and moves on over a variety of both old-school and new sounding beats

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Sounds Like – West-coast boom bap/aggressive weed rap

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Sounds like - Somewhat experimental and lo-fi swag/weed rap with a really dark edge

8.

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Sounds Like – Highly experimental, poetically conscious slow-paced rap over electronic beats

9.

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Sounds Like – Dilla's soulfulness with Madlib's experimentation

10.

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Sounds like- A mostly downtempo introspective, but not sober album with really interesting genre experimentations

Honorable Mentions: Homebody Sandman ~ Last of a Living Breed & JJ Doom ~ Key to the Kuffs

samus i am · Oct 4, 2012

I will check them out, thanks. But number 10 my it's not be a good choice because of the cover.

DominoKid · Oct 4, 2012

forgot you liked the theo tape that much.

Esch · Oct 4, 2012

Rose Island is really fucking boring.

The rest, C/S.

ThanksVision · Oct 4, 2012

too
much
music

thank you though, I found some great stuff on that last list.

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

The retail list surprises >> than last time

Edit: Also forgot some stuff on my other one. Accidentally posted draft one.

RJT · Oct 4, 2012

HiRes, did you listen to the Kweli mix? I thought it was pretty solid, probably worthy of the top 15.

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

RJT said:
HiRes, did you listen to the Kweli mix? I thought it was pretty solid, probably worthy of the top 15.

I just listened to a bunch of things over, I was really tired last night, the list has been updated again...I also forgot that certain things were released within this timespan lol

Macca · Oct 4, 2012

No 2 Chainz? fuuuuck.

Going to check that Ace Hood, missed it when it came out.

That GLC is nice as hell too.

Also, man what the fuck?

Could this guy be biting Kendrick Lamars cover any harder?

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

I wore 2Chainz out : (

PBY · Oct 4, 2012

great stuff HRD. Shame this thread won't get to page 2

Kusagari · Oct 4, 2012

Control System should be #1, even it came out before.

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

Kusagari said:
Control System should be #1, even it came out before.

You do realize this is quarterly and that it was indeed #2 in the last one, right?

Edit: Also thanks Peter, I figure as much, but since I started this I figure I should at least keep it going for a whole year this time.

Ken Masters · Oct 4, 2012

Can't wait for the Kendrick Lamar album, most anticipated album this year

And kid cudi's album being my #2 anticipated album

RJT · Oct 4, 2012

Awesome: I haven't listened to the top 4 albums, and this is a three day weekend for me. Thanks gain for the effort, man!

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Nice lists, always enjoy the roundups. Really enjoyed the remastered give me my flowers while i can still smell them, deserves to be high on the top album list.

PBY · Oct 4, 2012

solarus said:
Nice lists, always enjoy the roundups. Really enjoyed the remastered give me my flowers while i can still smell them, deserves to be high on the top album list.

Agreed, but it wasn't remastered, it was just mastered lol. Lazy ass blu.

Macca · Oct 4, 2012

Ken Masters said:
Can't wait for the Kendrick Lamar album, most anticipated album this year

And kid cudi's album being my #2 anticipated album

Not the new Rozay tape?!?!

Des, I think you should've gone with a catchier/more eye pleasing title?

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

He's using recycled beats, oh but it is Ken Masters lol.

Unspeakable Evil · Oct 4, 2012

Nice thread. I need to broaden my Hip Ho p , i dont know must of the people in the OP.

PBY · Oct 4, 2012

Also- does Death Grips count as hip hop?

spindashing · Oct 4, 2012

Not sure why I skipped over the GLC tape or the Shad tape. Gonna fix that right now. Props for that Cigarette Boats being #1.

) Shit is so smooth.

HiResDes · Oct 4, 2012

peterb0y said:
Also- does Death Grips count as hip hop?

Naw.

Macca · Oct 4, 2012

spindashing said:
Not sure why I skipped over the GLC tape or the Shad tape. Gonna fix that right now. Props for that Cigarette Boats being #1. ) Shit is so smooth.

Yea, I ain't even a huge Spitta fan, but Cigarette Boats is fantastic.

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Macca said:
Yea, I ain't even a huge Spitta fan, but Cigarette Boats is fantastic.

This. Spitta has a good ear for beats.

Jay Sosa · Oct 4, 2012

Awesome, thanks!

Jitters · Oct 4, 2012

Cigarette Boats is the best thing he has ever done. Not sleep inducing like his other stuff. I did listen to "Scottie Pippen" a shit load to hear Gibbs though.

Theophilus London is nice.

Discotheque · Oct 4, 2012

Cigarette Boats isn't Curren$y's best project. But it's pretty damn good. It's like some Miami Vice 80s cocaine rap shit.

K.Jack · Oct 4, 2012

Why did I think Cigarette Boats was retail?

*downloads*

Nice lists. Too much for me to check out still.

Jitters · Oct 4, 2012

"melancholy and the infinite shadness"

lol. I'm going to check this one out.

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Baby face killa deserves it's own thread. Bout it bout it contender for soty.

Discotheque · Oct 4, 2012

solarus said:
Baby face killa deserves it's own thread. Bout it bout it contender for soty.

I think you mean Money Clothes Hoes...or Kush Clouds

Kusagari · Oct 4, 2012

Wait...Cigarette Boats is Curren$y? How did I never realize that.

Downloading that now along with some of the other stuff listed.

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Discotheque said:
I think you mean Money Clothes Hoes...or Kush Clouds

Nah, they're great too but I'd put bfk and bout it bout it above those two.

Kwixotik · Oct 4, 2012

Seconding the recommendation of "Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them"

Gonna have to check the others out, I haven't been staying on top of new releases lately. Thanks, as always, for the thread, HRD.

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Kwixotik said:
Seconding the recommendation of "Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them"

Gonna have to check the others out, I haven't been staying on top of new releases lately. Thanks, as always, for the thread, HRD.

Seeing how big gaf was on below the heavens (rightfully so, godamn that album was amazing) it's strange how little talk there is of give me my flowers while i can still smell them this year or last year when it released unmastered.
EDIT: Maybe the whole unmastered thing killed any fondness people had for blu anymore lol.

Kwixotik · Oct 4, 2012

solarus said:
Seeing how big gaf was on below the heavens (rightfully so, godamn that album was amazing) it's strange how little talk there is of give me my flowers while i can still smell them this year or last year when it released unmastered.
EDIT: Maybe the whole unmastered thing killed any fondness people had for blu anymore lol.

Yeah, I didn't even hear anything about it until like two days ago. The remastered version is out now though. I think it's just hard to build up a buzz for it because it's not technically a new album.

Enter The 36 Chambers · Oct 4, 2012

No DMX Undisputed. Shocking.

bjork · Oct 4, 2012

What about Kreayshawn

Macca · Oct 4, 2012

bjork said:
What about Kreayshawn

HiRes doesn't like platinum selling artists. Too "mainstream" for his tastes.

Jitters · Oct 4, 2012

solarus said:
Baby face killa deserves it's own thread. Bout it bout it contender for soty.

Discotheque said:
I think you mean Money Clothes Hoes...or Kush Clouds

I would say all 3 are.

Enter The 36 Chambers · Oct 4, 2012

Great thread tho, more poeple need to see this. When/If recon ever gets unbanned back it should be linked in the GAF-Hop OP

solarus · Oct 4, 2012

Enter The 36 Chambers said:
Great thread tho, more poeple need to see this. When/If recon ever gets unbanned back it should be linked in the GAF-Hop OP

Why not just request a mod to add it to the op?

Lhexh · Oct 4, 2012

How much dumb indie shit can you put in one op...

You could have just made your list at amazon...

Macca · Oct 4, 2012

Lhexh said:
How much dumb indie shit can you put in one op...

You could have just made your list at amazon...

the only way you could be saltier is if Recon made this thread.

AwesomeSauce · Oct 4, 2012

Love these threads. Keep it up.

And as always thanks for recommendations, I slept on some of these and will give them a listen when I got time.

bjork · Oct 4, 2012

Macca said:
HiRes doesn't like platinum selling artists. Too "mainstream" for his tastes.

well played, well played

Double D · Oct 4, 2012

Oh shit, that jonwayne is out? Is this the beat tape or the rap tape? I remember hearing there'd be two.

edit: I guess it's the beat tape.

Quake1028 · Oct 4, 2012

Brother Ali belongs on the retail list.

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