Focus Hip Hop

Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Album Review | Stik Figa & August Fanon – Heresy

    This album was released on March 4th this year. Stik Figa has been putting out some of the best music of his career over the past few years, and August Fanon is pretty much my favorite active producer right now, so I was pretty excited when I found out that these guys were collaborating. I…

  • EP Review | Fatboi Sharif & LoneSword – Cyber City Society

    This extended play was released on March 3rd this year. Fatboi Sharif put out one of the better albums of 2020 with Gandhi Loves Children, and he’s been killing features since then, so I was pretty excited to see how he would follow that last project up. I’m not really familiar with LoneSword at all,…

  • Album Review | OKnice – Have You Tried Being Happy?

    This album was released on March 1st this year. OKnice is a rapper from Minnesota with whom I had very little experience prior to hearing this record. The only track that I’d heard from him was a single called Scumbag featuring Defcee. That song is fire though, so I was pretty excited to check out…

  • The Best Songs of February 2022

    Here are the Apple Music and Spotify versions of the playlist of my favorite tracks from this past February. Sorry that this is kinda late. Shoutout to Conway the Machine for having my favorite album of the month with God Don’t Make Mistakes. I kinda regret not reviewing it, but I’ve been so busy with…

  • Don’t Sleep | Dot-Com Intelligence – Purpose

    Don’t sleep on this latest project from Dot-Com Intelligence. It came out on October 30th last year. I wasn’t familiar with Dot-Com Intelligence at all before checking this project out, but I gave it a chance because the album cover is really nice, and it’s got a feature from Defcee, who I’m a big fan…

  • Don’t Sleep | Hajino & Duncecap – Go Climb a Tree

    Don’t sleep on this new collaborative album from MC Duncecap and producer Hajino. It was released on February 25th this year. I’ve been a fan of Duncecap ever since I heard his 2020 album, Resting Dunce Face. I also went on to enjoy his collaborative Nerdcore project with Vinny Vinny Video, I Love Vidja Games.…

  • Song Review | TreaZon – Tinted Windows

    This single was released on February 18th this year. TreaZon is an artist I’ve been following since 2014 when he was featured on Sylvan LaCue‘s amazing mixtape, Searching Sylvan. He really stood out on that tape, so I was pleased to find out that his solo material is really goddamn good as well. My favorite…

  • Song Review | NDNI – GOD DREAM

    This new single from NDNI was released this past Friday on March 11th. I really enjoyed NDNI’s debut LP, Lifted, and I think they’re one of the more exciting new discoveries I’ve made in the underground scene, so I was really looking forward to checking this track out. I really like the heavy, melodic production…

  • FHH Update 3-7-2022

    As you may have noticed, things have gotten pretty slow on this blog over the past few weeks. I’ve just been super busy with school. Since I’m on academic probation, I can’t really afford to not put school first, so that’s why I haven’t been as active here. Honestly, I’m not sure when I’ll start…

  • Focus Hip Hop & OG Nick Marsh; The Honest and Unfiltered

    Originally posted on Southside Archives: I first found Focus Hip Hop through the discover page on WordPress Shortly after making my own blog. I figured as a new writer in the Hip Hop blogging community it would be a good start to follow fellow bloggers.  Focus Hip Hop; ran by blogger OG Nick Marsh, is…

  • Album Review | Myles Bullen – Mourning Travels

    This album was released on February 4th this year. Myles Bullen is an artist with whom I’ve only recently familiarized myself. I checked out his 2020 album, Healing Hurts, and thought it was pretty good. This latest project is a sequel to Healing Hurts, so I’m hoping that it’s even better. The one artist that…

  • Album Review | Teddy Faley – Teddy Brown Brown

    This album was released on January 28th this year. Teddy Faley is an artist with whom I have zero experience. I’m pretty much going into this album completely blind. However, I do think that I’m gonna enjoy it for a couple reasons. First of all, it’s being released by we are the karma kids, which…