Focus Hip Hop

Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Album Review | Lt. Headtrip & DOS4GW – Tap on the Glass

    This album was released on July 21st this year. Lt. Headtrip is an artist who I’ve been a big fan of ever since I first heard his 2020 album, Dreamery. That project honestly blew me away, so I’ve had my eye on him ever since then. I went on to enjoy his album from last…

  • The Best Songs of May 2023

    Here’s the playlist of my favorite songs from this past May. Shoutout to billy woods & Kenny Segal for having my favorite album of the month. Throw this playlist on shuffle, and let me know what your favorite track is, as well as what your favorite album from the month of May was. Also, be…

  • FHH Update 7-17-2023

    Hi. You may have noticed that I stopped publishing reviews last week. Those of you who keep up with my occasional updates probably can guess why; the reasoning is pretty much the same every time the blog goes through dry periods like this. The depression has been bad lately because I got some really bad…

  • Album Review | Bloodblixing – SODOM & GOMORRAH GANGSTA EDITION

    This album was released on July 7th this year. Bloodblixing already put out one of the better albums of the year alongside Iceberg Theory with SUNDAE FUNNYZ GANGSTA EDITION, so I was pretty excited when I found out about this latest one. Blix himself described this album as having “Avant-garde Bloodblixing beats,” so that should…

  • Album Review | GZA – Legend of the Liquid Sword

    This album was released on December 10th in the year of our lord 2002. GZA is pretty much my favorite member of the Wu-Tang Clan these days, so I’m actually looking forward to checking this project out. People don’t really bring this album up when talking about GZA’s discography, so I’m definitely not expecting this…

  • Don’t Sleep | VEGA. – Hits

    Don’t sleep on this new compilation of VEGA.‘s best songs. It was curated by one of the smartest, funniest, and most sexiest individuals in our community. I believe his name is OG NICK MARSH. That’s right. It’s me. I’m writing about something I made and telling you not to sleep on it. I’m not gonna…

  • Song Review | DrxQuinnx – Gorgeous

    This song was released on June 27th this year. DrxQuinnx is an artist from Chicago who I first heard rapping alongside Denmark Vessey & Vic Spencer over an Earl Sweatshirt beat. That was back in 2018, and he’s been on my radar ever since then. He’s also the first artist I ever did a video…

  • Album Review | AJ Suede – Ark Flashington

    This album was released on July 7th this year. I recently covered AJ Suede’s collaborative album with Televangel, Parthian Shots, which I really enjoyed. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that it made me want to listen to even more music from AJ Suede, so the logical thing to do was to listen to…

  • The Best Songs of April 2023

    Here’s the playlist of my favorite songs from this past April. Shoutout to Black Thought & El Michels Affair for having my favorite album of the month. Throw this playlist on shuffle and let me know what your favorite track is, as well as what your favorite album from April was. Click HERE to go…

  • Album Review | calm. – ALL THE DREAMS I EVER HAD

    This album was released on May 12th this year. The last two calm. albums have been some of my favorite releases of their respective years, so I was pretty excited when I saw that this album was coming out. The concept about lucid dreaming seems pretty interesting too. According to the Bandcamp page for this…

  • EP Review | Achille – third floor

    This extended play was released on May 5th this year. I typically don’t write full reviews for instrumental projects because I’m better at talking about lyrics rather than production. However, this project is only five tracks, so I figured I’d give it a try. I don’t think it’ll be hard for me to find something…

  • EP Review | Pro Zay & SB11 – SAMPLE BAG 2

    This EP was released on April 5th this year. Pro Zay put out one of my favorite albums of last year with Gutta Glory, so I was eager to see how he would follow it up. We’re getting a sequel to ALLEY MUZIK later this year, so that should be exciting. However, in the meantime…