Focus Hip Hop

Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Album Review | Kastaway – My Life in Music 3: Revelation

    This album was released on November 13th in 2021. Kastaway is an artist with whom I’m not really that familiar. I’ve only heard him featured on Mic Logik‘s latest album in the past. He was also featured on Ronesh’s Basilica album from last year. I’ve never heard a solo track from Kastaway, so I have…

  • Album Review | Inspectah Deck – Uncontrolled Substance

    This album was released on October 5th in the year of our lord 1999. I have to apologize for the slow rate at which I’ve been progressing in regards to my Wu-Tang marathon. I’ve been focusing on modern releases, so it’s kinda been put on the back burner in recent months. Hopefully I can get…

  • Album Review | black – JAZZ FOR JESUS

    This album was released on September 17th in the year of our lord 2021. I’ve never heard black rap before, so I have no idea if I’m gonna like this or not. For whatever reason, I’m just gonna assume that it’s gonna be in the same vein as guys like Earl Sweatshirt, Navy Blue, lojii,…

  • The Best Songs of December 2021

    Here are the Apple Music & Spotify versions of the playlist of my favorite songs from the month of December. Shoutout to SageModeTim for having my favorite album of the month. Anyway, check these tracks out and let me know which one is your favorite, as well as what your favorite album from December was. Click…

  • Album Review | calm. – Conversations with a Willow Tree

    This album was released on January 1st this year. calm. is a Hip Hop duo comprised of MC Time and producer AwareNess. Their last album, Things I Learned While Dying in Denver, made it into my top 5 albums of 2018, so I was pretty excited when I saw that they released this project. I…

  • Album Review | Sleep Sinatra – In God’s Image

    This album was released on December 31st last year. Sleep Sinatra has become one of my favorite underground MCs over the past couple years. My favorite album from him so far is Routes, which I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to cover. That album is amazing though. Definitely check it out if you haven’t heard…

  • Album Review | Daniel Son & Futurewave – Son Tzu & the Wav.God

    This album was released on January 1st this year. Daniel Son is an MC with whom I became familiar through his work with guys like Lord Juco, Rome Streetz & Buckwild. He’s another artist contributing to the wave of street-oriented Hip Hop that’s seen a rise in the past half-decade. This’ll be my second time…

  • Album Review | Mic Logik – As I Was Saying

    This album was released on November 26th in 2021. Mic Logik is an artist from Chicago with whom I became familiar through his work with Ronesh. He’s one of those rare artists who can rap and sing, so that’s pretty impressive. I don’t actually know that much about him, but based on the singles I…

  • Album Review | SageModeTim – Plot

    This album was released on December 18th this year. SageModeTim is another artist signed to Black Soul Tribe of Kings. I’ve met him a couple times, but I didn’t really know what to expect going into this album. I had no idea what kind of artist he was. I was just hoping that I would…

  • Album Review | Nas – Magic

    This album was released on December 24th this year. As of the time of this writing, the album has been out for 10 minutes. It was announced less than 24 hours before its release, so this was a pretty big surprise for me. I enjoyed King’s Disease 2 a lot, and it’s actually grown on…

  • Album Review | Black Native – Too Serious

    This album was released on December 21st this year. Black Native is an artist that I’m not really familiar with at all to be honest. I just heard one of the singles from this album and enjoyed it, so I figured it’d probably be a good idea to check this project out. There’s also a…

  • The Best Songs of November 2021

    Here are the Apple Music & Spotify versions of the playlist of my favorite songs from the month of November. Shoutout to Aesop Rock & Blockhead for having my favorite album of the month. Anyway, check these tracks out and let me know which one is your favorite, as well as what your favorite album from…